Objective Psychology test Questions For UPSC UGC and other exams

Objective Psychology test Questions For UPSC UGC and other exams
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1. Which of the following statement is not true: punishment is more effective when it is administered—
(A) For strange response tendencies
(B) Consistently
(C) Closer in time and place to the behavior being punished
(D) To suppress one behavior, while at the same time positive reinforcement is used to make another behavior more likely to occur
Ans. (A)

2. In association stage of skill learning, the skill—
(A) Is learned,
(B) Is perfected
(C) Becomes automatic and the person no longer needs to think about performing the talk
(D) All of the above
Ans. (B)


3. Punishment differs from negative reinforcement in that punishment produces—
(A) Punishment and negative reinforcement do not differ
(B) Active avoidance learning
(C) Escape learning
(D) Passive avoidance learning
Ans. (D)

4. The following factor does not influence the rate at. which a person learns a skill—
(A) Feedback about one’s progress
(B) Distribution of practice
(C) Use of memory aids like the method of
(D) Transfer of a previous training
Ans. (C)

5. Which of the following statements are true regarding transfer of learning?
(A) The direction and amount of transfer depend on stimulus similarity
(B) The direction of transfer depends upon the degree of response similarity and the amount of transfer depends upon the degree of stimulus similarity.
(C) The direction and amount of transfer depend on response similarity.
(D) The direction of transfer depends upon the degree of stimulus similarity whereas the amount of transfer depend upon the degree of response similarity.
Ans. (B)


6. In skill learning (learning to drive a car) the following stage is involved—
(A) Cognitive stage
(B) Association stage
(C) Automation stage
(D) All of the above
Ans. (D)

7. Match list 1 (parts of mind) with list 2 their functions—
List 1
(a) Cerebellum
(b) Reticular Formation
(c) Medulla
(d) Limbic system
List 2
1. Sleep
2. Emotions
3. Reflexive activities
4. Motor control
Codes are—
(A) a-1, b-4, c-2, d-8
(B) a-1, b-4,c-3, d-2
(C) a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3
(D) a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2
Ans. (D)

8. General reading ability—
(A) Increases regularly with age.
(B) Increases upto 45 years and then declines slowly
(C) Increases upto middle twenties, declines very slowly to about age 45, and more sharply thereafter:
(D) Decreases regularly but the ratio of decrease is imperceptible upto twenty five, very slow upto 45 and further there- after.
Ans. (C)

9. According to Gagne, verbal learning is characterised by all of the following except—
(A) It is like skill learning
(B) It involves a chain of at least three links (involves two links)
(C) The first link is the presentation of the object (S) and the observing of the object (R).
(D) In the second link the observative response (R) result in certain internal stimuli which give rise to the verbal response, the utterance of the word (say dog) for the object.
Ans. (C)

10. S-R-S-R (dog). This is the paradigm representing—
(A) Concept learning
(B) Verbal chain learning
(C) Skill learning
(D) Conditioning
Ans. (B)


11. The material used in research on verbal learning includes all of the following except—
(A) Nonsense syllable
(B) Pairs of words
(C) Picture and diagrams
(D) Both nonsense syllables and paired words
Ans. (C)

12. Which of the following statement about ‘learning by imitation’ is wrong?
(A) Man learns more by insight than by imitation
(B) Imitation does not involve any reasoning
(C) There is no trial and error before imitation
(D) Imitation as a form of learning is more important for the animals of higher spices, including man
Ans. (A)

13. A student preparing for an examination is not distracted by the loud ticking of a clock. This phenomenon is referred to as—
(A) Adaptation
(B) Negative adaptation
(C) Conditioning
(D) Assimilation
Ans. (B)

14. The correlation between retention and learning is—
(A) Zero
(B) Low and positive
(C) Low and negative
(D) High and negative
Ans. (B)

15. Learning by insight involves—
(A) Establishment of bond between stimuli and appropriate responses
(B) Retention of satisfying responses and elimination of dissatisfying responses
(C) Sudden awareness of the relationship between the goal and the means
(D) The use of intelligence
Ans. (C)

16. Which is not acceptable about punishment?
(A) It teaches what to do
(B) It is effective in controlling the behavior of other.
(C) It is not possible to eliminate the need for all punishment in any society.
(D) It does supress responses.
Ans. (A)

17. Retention is improved when the time assigned to a learning assignment is devoted—
(A) Equally to reading and writing
(B) Entirely to reading
(C) Partly to reading and partly to recitation
(D) Entirely to recitation
Ans. (C)

18. The least interference with learning comes from learning things that are—
(A) Similar to those that one is trying to remember
(B) More different of the same type one has learned.
(C) Meaningless and uninterested to the learner.
(D) Different from those that one is trying to remember
Ans. (D)


19. Theory of interference is associated with—
(A) Motivation
(B) Learning by conditioning
(C) Memory
(D) Behavior modification
Ans. (C)

20. Something that works backward to block previous learning is known as—
(A) Interference theory of forgetting
(B) Retroactive inhibition
(C) Proactive inhibition
(D) Cognitive inhibition
Ans. (B)

21. Previous learning that interferes with the recall of present learning is known as—
(A) Proactive inhibition
(B) Progressive inhibition
(C) Retroactive inhibition
(D) Regressive inhibition
Ans. (A)

22. Arrange the theories of forgetting—
(a) Disuse theory
(b) Theory of stimulus encoding
(c) Interference theory
(d) Perseveration-consolidation theory
According to the correct time sequence of the theories—
(A) c, b, d and a
(B) a, d, c and b
(C) a, c, d and b
(D) b, c, d and a
Ans. (B)

23. Forgetting explained in terms of fading, after sometime of impression created by learning in the cortex is the—
(A) Theory of decay
(B) Theory of interference
(C) Trace-chance theory
(D) Theory of retrieval failure
Ans. (A)

24. Which of the following sequence of memory stage is correct?
(A) Storage-encoding-Retrieval
(B) Encoding-storage-Retrieval
(C) Retrieval-encoding-storage
(D) Encoding-retrieval-storage
Ans. (B)

25. The most convincing proof of retention is—
(A) Relearning
(B) Recognition
(C) Recollection
(D) Recall
Ans. (A)