Psychology objective test Free Questions

Psychology objective test Free Questions
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Free Online Psychology Objective test


Objective Questions
1. The fundamental property of learning is that it—
(A) Modifies some stimulus — response relations
(B) Promotes physical maturation
(C) Requires perceptual skills
(D) Modifies human behavior
Ans. (A)


2. The term ‘learning’ includes—
(A) All changes in behavior
(B) Changes in behavior resulting from practice
(C) All permanent changes in behavior
(D) Improvement in behavior patterns
Ans. (B)


3. Walking is—
(A) Respondent responses
(B) Operant responses
(C) Sensory responses
(D) Voluntary responses
Ans. (B)

4. Which of the following paradigms represents classical conditioning?
(A) US-CS-UR
(B) US-UR-CS-CR
(C) US-CS-CR
(D) US-UR
CS-CR
Ans. (D)




5. Much learning in human beings taken place by—
(A) Trial and error
(B) Imitation and insight
(C) Insight and conditioning
(D) Conditioning and imitation
Ans. (D)

6. Simultaneous conditioning means—
(A) CS preceding the UCS
(B) CS and UCS occurring together
(C) CS terminating by the onset of the UCS
(D) CS beginning after the UCS ends
Ans. (B)

7. In his theory of learning. Thorndike stressed most, the importance of—
(A) Law of effect
(B) Law of exercise
(C) Law of frequency
(D) Law of readiness
Ans. (A)

8. Answer the correct difference between Hull and Tolman learning theories—
(a) Reinforcement considered important in Hull theories but Tolman consider this secondary.
(b) According to Tolman molar behavior is important but Hull considers moleculer behavior as important.
(c) Goal learning is important for Tolman but Hull emphasis on response learning
(d) Hull theory was describe under three variables—Independent, dependent or intervening but Tolman theory was described only by
intervening variable.
Codes—
(A) a, b and d
(B) a, c and d
(C) b, c and d
(D) a, b and c
Ans. (D)

9. Action research is ordinarily concerned with problems which are—
(A) Of general nature
(B) Are of immediate concern and call for immediate solutions
(C) Constitute universal truths
(D) Have long-range implications
Ans. (B)


10. What is undesirable in a questionnaire?
(A) Asking for unnecessary information that lengthens the questionnaire
(B) Avoiding ambiguity in questions
(C) Simplest possible wording and suitable vocabulary
(D) Avoiding questions which the subjects will not answer or will not answer truthfully.
Ans. (A)


11. Analysis of a research problem does not include as a step—
(A) Selecting and accumulating facts that might be related to the problem
(B) Proposing various explanations and selecting the most relevant and significant ones for testing.
(C) Defining operationally the variables that may be involved in the Hypothesis
(D) Identifying a problem.
Ans. (D)


12. An attitude scale with five points on it varying from strongly approved to strongly disapproved is known as—
(A) Likert type
(B) Thurstone type
(C) Bogardus type
(D) Guttman type
Ans. (A)


13. The rating proceduce involves a consideration of—
(A) The trait to be rated
(B) The continuum on which rating is to be done
(C) The persons who will do rating
(D) All of the above
Ans. (D)

14. Delayed conditioning means—
(A) CS and UCS occurring together
(B) CS preceding the UCS
(C) CS terminating by the onset of the UCS
(D) CS beginning after the UCS ends
Ans. (B)

15. The technique which is used for measuring interpersonal relationships within a group is known as—
(A) Psychogram
(B) Psychodynamics
(C) Sociogram
(D) Scalogram
Ans. (C)

16. Which of the following statements is true ? In behavioral science research?
(A) Measurement is indirect
(B) Measurement always provide only approximate information
(C) Many errors in measurement exist because we cannot device appropriate unit of measurement
(D) All of the above are true
Ans. (D)

17. The hypothesis that, “The number of tables and chairs in the school inf1uence positively the academic achievement of the
student’s is not acceptable because—
(A) It is not precisely stated
(B) It is not based on any rational relationship between dependent and independent variables
(C) It is not testable
(D) It is not scientifically developed
Ans. (B)

18. The power of a statistical test can be increased by—
(A) Decreasing the size of the sample
(B) Avoiding the use of the null Hypothesis
(C) Designing for small error effects
(D) Avoiding random sampling
Ans. (C)

19. If an examiner, inadvertently, allows three minutes extra time to some subjects in the group on a test of intelligence
used in a research, this will reduce in the experiment—
(A) Sampling error of random nature
(B) Measurement error of random nature
(C) Measurement error of constant nature
(D) Sampling error of constant nature
Ans. (C)

20. Thinking analogously about hypothesis a researcher should—
(A) First bet and then roll the dice
(B) First roll the dice and then bet
(C) Change his bet after the data are in
(D) Have no be but dice only
Ans. (A)