Free Psychology Test online Questions

Free Psychology Test online Questions
Free Objective psychology Questions Exams IAS
1. Peripheral nervous system consists mainly of—

(A) The afferent and efferent nerve fibers taking rise from the central nervous system and travelling to various, parts of the body.

(B) Nerve fibers which travel to various parts of the body

(C) Nerve fibre which arise from the central nervous system

(D) All of the above

Ans. (A)

 

2. Message regarding pain, pressure and temperature variations are carried by—

(A) Autonomic system

(B) Spinal cord

(C) Central nervous system

(D) Somatic system

Ans. (D)

 

3. Which of the following statements is not true regarding super males?

(A) Super males have an extra Y-chromosome (type X YY)

(B) They are taller than average

(C) They are usually homosexuals

(D) They reach sexual maturity early and may have a higher than normal sex drive.

Ans. (C)

 

 

4. The conduction of nerve impulse—

(A) Does not depend on the presence or absence of the myelin sheath

(B) Is more rapid in non-myelinated fibers than in myelinated fibers

(C) Is the same in both myelinated and non-myelinated fibers

(D) Is more rapid in myelinated fibers than in non-myelinated fibers

Ans. (D)

 

5. The left hemisphere is—

(A) Concerned to a large extent with spatial and pattern sense

(B) The minor hemisphere

(C) The major hemisphere

(D) Centre of musical ability

Ans. (C)

 

6. The following statement is true about the autonomic system—

(A) It helps in voluntary movements

(B) It plays an important role in carrying messages regarding pain, pressure and temperature variations.

(C) It plays an important role in emotions

(D) All of the above.

Ans. (C)

 

7. The part of the body that makes a response is known as—

(A) Conductor

(B) Effector

(C) Receptor

(D) Nervous system

Ans. (B)

 

8. The temporal lobe of the brain contains—

(A) The auditory area

(B) The auditory area and the visual association area

(C) The visual area

(D) The striate area

Ans. (B)

 

9. Which is not the part of the brain?

(A) Spinal cord

(B) The limbic system

(C) Cerebrum

(D) Reticular formation

Ans. (A)

 

10. When a continuous electric current of a certain constant voltage is sent through electrodes implanted in the reticular formulation of

cat or dog—

(A) The animal goes into comma

(B) The animal if asleep is awakened

(C) Sleep is produced

(D) The animal experiences pleasure

Ans. (C)

 

11. The visual area is present in—

(A) The occipital lobe

(B) The cerebral hemisphere

(C) The striate area

(D) All of the above are true

Ans. (D)

 

12. The areas of the brain where memories are stored, information is integrated and most learning and thinking, take place are

Called—

(A) The sensory areas

(B) The motor areas

(C) The association areas

(D) The co-ordinating and integrating areas

Ans. (C)

 

13. The revelations about human brain are largely through studies on—

(A) Patients (army veterens) with brain injury

(B) Patients who have had surgical abbreviations to remove tumour or control epilepsy

(C) Electrical or chemical stimulation

(D) All of the above

Ans. (D)

 

14. Which of the following statement is false—

(A) Speech in most cases is controlled by the left hemisphere

(B) Broca’s area is involved in the production of speech sounds

(C) Broca’s area is concerned with understanding speech

(D) In some left-handed people, speech center may be located in the right hemisphere or equally divided between both the right and

the left hemisphere.

Ans. (C)

 

15. In monkey’s lesions in the frontal lobes—

(A) Produce deficits in the ability to recognize and discriminate different forms

(B) Destroy the ability to solve a delayed response problem

(C) Produce deficit in production of speech

(D) Produce deficit in understanding of speech

Ans. (B)

 

16. The following is False of the split brain subjects—

(A) Thin corpus callosum is cut

(B) They have difficulty in performing their day to day functions

(C) They ordinarily function without any difficulty in day to day life situations

(D) The subject is aware only of what is going on in his left hemisphere because it is that hemisphere alone that can

Communicate through language

Ans. (B)

 

17. Which of these match correctly?

(a) Incentive motivation — K

(b) Drive — D

(c) Oscillation effect — SOR

(d) Trials to extinction — P

Codes—

(A) b, c and d

(B) a, c and d

(C) a, b and d

(D) a, b and c

Ans. (D)

 

 

18. Backward conditioning means—

(A) CS and UCS occurring together

(B) CS and preceding the UCS

(C) CS beginning after the UCS ends

(D) CS terminating by the onset of the UCS

Ans. (C)

 

19. When a conditioned response to a stimulus has been acquired, other similar stimuli will evoke the same response. This is due to—

(A) Gradient of generalization

(B) Discrimination

(C) Generalization

(D) Extinction

Ans. (C)

 

20. In operant training the reinforced behavior and the behavior normally clicked by the reinforcing stimulus bear the following

Relationships. They are—

(A) Same

(B) Similar though they generally differ in some details

(C) Totally different

(D) They bear some degree of resemblance

Ans. (C)

 

21. In an experiment, the conditioned stimulus was the word ‘good’ pronounced aloud by the experimenter. After a conditioning

has been established, sentence like ‘the pioneer help his Comrade’ also produced salivation. This is known as—

(A) Semantic conditioning

(B) Stimulus conditioning

(C) Operant conditioning

(D) Response conditioning

Ans. (A)

 

22. Mirror drawing is an example of—

(A) Sensory skill

(B) Visual skill

(C) Motor skill

(D) Sensory motor skill

Ans. (D)

 

23. Reappearance of an extinct CR after a gap of time in response to the original CS, according to Pavlov, is known as—

(A) Disinhibition

(B) Spontaneous recovery

(C) Conditioned inhibition

(D) Inhibition of delay

Ans. (B)

 

24. It has been found that—

(A) Massed practice is more efficient than spaced practice

(B) Massed practice is as efficient as spaced practice

(C) Massed practice is less efficient than spaced practice

(D) Only spaced practice is a viable way to learning

Ans. (C)

 

25. The learning curve is one of—

(A) Constant gains

(B) Increasing gains

(C) Decreasing gains

(D) Increasing linearly upto a point and then becomes constant

Ans. (C)