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Basic Proficiency in Psychology

Description: Tests basic proficiency in Psychology-the science of human behavior
Number of Questions: 15
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Who propounded the "Locus of Control Principle" involving the tendency to believe that control resides internally or externally?

  1. Julian Rotter

  2. Sigmund Freud

  3. Carl Rogers

  4. Abraham Maslowe

  5. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer

What does MMPI stand for?

  1. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Indicator

  2. Minnesota Multiphasic Person Inventory

  3. Minnesota Multidynamic Personality Inventory

  4. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct full form.

In Guilford's structure of intellect theory, intelligence is viewed as comprising of

  1. operations, attributes and abilities

  2. operations, contents, and products

  3. functions, contents and products

  4. operations, functions and abilities

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer

In order to be successful in modern times, managers must harness which of the following?

  1. Human capital

  2. Information technology

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Manufacturing technology

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Both the answers are correct.

Albert Bandura's "Personality Theory" is better known as

  1. Psycho Development Theory

  2. Social Cognitive Theory

  3. Hierarchy of Needs

  4. Reality Principle

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct Answer

How many kinds of intelligence did Howard Gardner identify?

  1. 2

  2. 5

  3. 7

  4. 3

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

There are 7 types.

Defense mechanisms are referred to as ineffective strategies. This statement is

  1. incorrect

  2. partly correct, depending on situation

  3. correct

  4. partly correct, depending on person in question

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Defense mechanisms are referred to as ineffectual strategies.

The view that people are either born or are made with certain qualities is based on

  1. Behavioral Theory

  2. Contingency Theory

  3. Transactional Theory

  4. Trait Theory

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The trait leadership theory believes that people are either born or are made with certain qualities.

Who is credited with the development of humanistic psychology?

  1. Carl Rogers

  2. Abraham Maslow

  3. Lewin

  4. Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 This answer gives credit to both theorists. 

Which of the following is the third stage in GAS model associated with stress management?

  1. Alarm

  2. Resistance

  3. Exhaustion

  4. Stoppage

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct Answer

Formal operational stage is made up of which of the following?

  1. Adolescence

  2. Adulthood

  3. Elementary

  4. Infancy

  5. Both 1 and 2


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The fourth stage involves both. 

Which of the following was propounded by Eysenck?

  1. Ego operates by working out realistic ways of satisfying the id’s demands.

  2. There is a co-factor special intelligence. Special intelligence was for individuals who accomplished high scores in some tests.

  3. There are two dimensions of neuroticism.

  4. Personality is divided into two constitutional groups.

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This was propounded by Eysenck.

A person who indulges in writing graffiti on public walls becomes a professional artist. This is best described by which of the following?

  1. Rationalisation

  2. Sublimation

  3. Displacement

  4. Cognition

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct

According to Raymond Cattell, source traits are sources of human personality. How many source traits are there?

  1. 12

  2. 16

  3. 14

  4. 60

  5. 06


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer

Which of the following axes gives insight into the general medical condition?

  1. Axis 4

  2. Axis 3

  3. Axis 5

  4. Axis 1

  5. Axis 2


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This axis specifies general medical condition.

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