Option 1
The primary subject matter of psychologyis
a. the soul of man
b. the philosophical concept of the psyche
c. the conscious mind
d. the unconscious mind
E. the behavior of organisms
2.Which one of the following is not a goal of scientific psychology?
a. To control behaviour
b. To explain behaviour
c. To predict behaviour
D. To abstract behaviour
e. To understand behaviour
3. What characterizes a school of psychology?
a. Its physiological research
b. Its stand on Gestalt psychology
c. Its orientation toward psychoanalysis
D. Its view point and assumptions
e. Its behavioural research
Functionalism, associated with William James, is particularly interested in
a. the structure of consciousness
b. introspection
C. how th e mind works
d. developmental psychology
e. how man understand different situations
5.Which one of the following is correctly associated with the German word Gestalt?
a. Neuron
B. Organized whole
c. Physiological psychology
d. Repression
e. Id, ego, super ego
6. What school of psychology indicates that it is important to study behaviour itself, not the mind or consciousness?
A. Behaviourism
b. Structuralism
c. Psychoanalysis
d. Functionalism
e. Gestalt psychology
The principal assumption of psychoanalysis is that
a. human beings do not have an unconscious mental life
b. habits determine behaviour
C. human beings have an unconscious mental life
d. all motives are inborn
e. Id, ego, super ego
The cognitive viewpoint stresses the importance of
A. Thinking
b. learning
c. motivation
d. biological drives
e. abilities
9. What viewpoint stresses the importance of the activity of the brain and nervous system?
A. The biological viewpoint
b. The psycho dynamic viewpoint
c. The learning viewpoint
d. The humanistic viewpoint
e. The psychoanalytic viewpoint
10. Psychotherapy is a work activity associated with what field of psychology?
A. Clinical psychology
b. Experimental psychology
c. Developmental psychology
d. Physiological psychology
e. School psychology
The point of view that knowledge is acquired by using the senses is called
a. rationalism
b. behaviourism
c. voluntarism
D. empiricism
e. criticism
12 Which one of the following is not a step associated with the scientific method?
a. To draw conclusions
b. Form a hypothesis
c. Gather data
d. Accept or reject the hypothesis
E. Reject all operational definitions
Naturalistic observation requires a researcher to study behaviour
a. using two independent ariables
b. in animals only
C. as it is happening in its own setting
d. by making sure the subjects know they are beingob served
e. in stress only
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A populations
a. defined by its bias
b. a subset of as ample
c. a very large sample
D. a well-defined group
e. undefined group
Fill in the gap. People have always tried to explain and predict thoughts and __________of others.
a. actions
b. hypotheses
c. ideas
d. study
e. exploring
16 14. Fill in the gap. People often _______the ideas and hypotheses of famous psychologists.
a. appreciate
b. debate
c. accumulate
d. reflect upon
e. know
The size of the right foot can usually be used to predict the size of the leftfoot.This is an example of a
a. negative of covariance
b. zero correlation
c. negative correlation
d. lack of covariance
E. positive correlation
In an experiment, the control group
a. receives a novel treatment
b. is expected to provide particularly interesting data
C. receives no treatment
d. is the error variance group
e. controls the experimental group
The variable that is assigned to the subjects by the experimenter is called
A. the independent variable
b. the dependent variable
c. the organism variable
d. the congruent variable
e. the scientific variable
Sensation refers to
a. meaningful knowledge
b. thinking and concept formation
c. organized experience
d. the raw data of experience
e. organized knowledge
