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This set of Basic Psychology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Basic Psychology Set 2

Q1 | Disorder involving the inability to fall asleep or to maintain sleep at once it isattained is called __________________
  • amnesia
  • insomnia
  • apathy
  • narcolepsy
Q2 | Cognitive events, often vivid but disconnected that occur during sleep are ____________
  • dreams
  • hypnosis
  • consciousness
  • none of the above
Q3 | Our ability to pay attention to only some aspects of the world around us whilelargely ignoring others is called___________
  • span of attention
  • division of attention
  • distraction of attention
  • selective attention
Q4 | The feeling that we can almost, but not quite, remember some information wewish to retrieve from memory is _________________
  • long-term memory
  • short-term memory
  • partial amnesia
  • tip-of-the-tongue phenomena
Q5 | The finding that the first and the last items in a series are more likely to berecalled than are intervening items is called_____________________
  • serial position effect
  • rote memorization
  • free recall
  • serial recall
Q6 | The tendency to think of wing objects only as they have been used in the pastis __________
  • mental set
  • algorithms
  • functional fixedness
  • analogy
Q7 | A theory of omissions suggesting that emotion provoking eventssimultaneously produce subjective reactions and physiological arousal is ________________
  • james lange theory
  • cannon-bard theory
  • activation theory
  • cognitive arousal theory
Q8 | The triarchic theory of intelligence is given by _______________
  • spearman
  • guilford
  • sternberg
  • gardner
Q9 | Consideration of what is practical and possible in gratifying instinctive needscharacteristic of the ego is called__________________
  • defense mechanism
  • pleasure principle
  • reality principle
  • psychic structure
Q10 | Improved retention after an interval is called_______________
  • reminiscence
  • relearning
  • recognition
  • eidetic imagery
Q11 | The process requiring time during which memory trace becomes more resistantto extinction is _________________
  • consolidation
  • organization
  • retention
  • reminiscence
Q12 | In Maslow’s hierarchy of motives, the most highly evolved motive is ____________
  • ambition
  • fear
  • self-actualization
  • the need to explore
Q13 | The ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed imagery of somethingthat has been previously seen is called_________________
  • flashbulb memory
  • mnemonics
  • eidetic memory
  • repression
Q14 | A mental category for classifying specific people, object, or experiences is a(n) _____________
  • image
  • concept
  • phoneme
  • algorithm
Q15 | The term Intelligent Quotient (IQ) was first introduced by_________________
  • binet
  • terman
  • simon
  • wechsler
Q16 | Freud believed that the Oedipal conflict took place during the ___________________
  • phallic stage
  • anal stage
  • genital stage
  • oral stage
Q17 | The intelligence model consists of _______________ dimensions.
  • three
  • four
  • six
  • ten
Q18 | Who proposed that “feeling of inferiority” is control to human behavior?
  • jung
  • sigmund freud
  • adler
  • william james
Q19 | Classifying people on the basis of body build is an example of __________approach to personality.
  • trait
  • dynamic
  • type
  • behavioral
Q20 | _______________ tests attempt to measure general mental abilities, rather thanaccumulated knowledge or aptitude for a specific subject or area.
  • attitude
  • personality
  • intelligence
  • creativity
Q21 | During World War 1 _________ test was developed which was administeredorally to those who could not read, later adapted for civilian use.
  • aptitude
  • army alpha
  • army beta
  • intelligence
Q22 | _______________ defined intelligence as the global capacity to think rationally,act purposefully, and deal effectively with the environment.
  • stanford binet
  • david wechsler
  • lewis terman
  • robert woodworth
Q23 | If a test consistently produces similar scores on different occasions, it is said to be _______________.
  • valid
  • reliable
  • true
  • standardized
Q24 | If a test measures what it is supposed to measure, it is said to be ____________.
  • valid
  • reliable
  • true
  • standardized
Q25 | Lewis Terman’s approach to measuring and defining intelligence as a single,overall IQ score was in the tradition of British psychologist ________________.
  • charles spearman
  • david wechsler
  • lazarus
  • robert woodworth