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Upsc Psychology Sample Test
Upsc Psychology Sample Test
1. The field of___ psychology involves outreach and
prevention in ‘real-life’ settings.
(a) Social
(b) Developmental
(c) Community
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
2. The Patterns of bodily activity in a number of emotions
are controlled by the
(a) Limbic system and pituitary gland of the brain
(b) Limbic system and hypothalamus of the brain
(c) Hypothalamus and pituitary gland of the brain
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
3. One indicator of arousal is the___, the record of ‘brain
waves’.
(a) Electroencephalogram (EEG)
(b) Electricalphalogram
(c) Electricophalogram
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
4. Who has introduced a technique called Transcendental
Meditation (TM) programme?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Sri Ram Krishna
(c) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
5. Sometimes continual emotional tension can create
(a) Physical disorder
(b) Hereditary disorder
(c) Psychophysiological disorder
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
6. The origins of stress can be
(a) Physical
(b) Environmental
(c) Social
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
7. Stressors are calibrated according to which of the
following units.
(a) Life-change units
(b) Readjustment units
(c) Conflict units
(d) Distress units
Ans. (a)
8. Stress has which of the following immediate effects?
(a) Behavioral
(b) Psysiological
(c) Emotional
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
9. Ways of handling stress so as to respond adaptively is
termed as the
(a) Wellness cycle
(b) Adjustment cycle
(c) Accomodation cycle
(d) Life-change cycle
Ans. (a)
10. Which hormones are stage of resistance. a major feature
of the stage of resistance.
(a) Noradrenalin
(b) Acetylcholine
(c) Adrenocorticotropic hormone
(d) Epinephrine
Ans. (c)
11. The technique used in the short-term memory is known as
(a) Free recall
(b) Reconstruction
(c) Recognition
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
12. …………refers to the degree to which incoming information
is processed so that it can be tied to, or integrated with,
existing memories.
(a) Perception
(b) Elaboration
(c) Meaning
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
13. Match List-I (Statements)
with List-II (Specifications) and
select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists
List-I List-Il
(Statements) (Specifications)
(A) Any reduction in reward size to less than zero was I.
Placebo effect
related in some
manner to experimental extinction and
thus resulted in
some response decrement
(B) Unfinished activities are remembered better and longer 2. Feedback effect
than finished
tasks, and thus are recalled more easily, even
spontaneously
(C) Improvement of patients as a result of the attention 3.
Depression effect
they receive
rather than through the treatment itself
(D) The effect of a self- regulating system which 4.
Frustration aggression effect
uses
information from an event in the system to 5.
Zeigarnik effect
control related
subsequent events.
Codes:
A B
C D
(a) 4 1 2 5
(b) 3 1 4 2
(c) 4 5 1 3
(d) 3 5 1 2
Ans. (d)
14. “The forgetting in all cases is proved to be founded on
a motive of displeasure”, was said
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Ivan P. Pavlov
(c) William James
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
15. ………. is
characterised by deficits in many intellectual abilities — memory, attention,
Judgement and abstract thought,
that can occur in
aged people.
(a) Defensive amnesia
(b) Senile dementia
(c) Korsakoff syndrome
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
16. Memory interference resulting from activities that come
after or subsequent to, the events we are trying to remember is called
(a) Proactive interference
(b) Retroactive interference
(c) Episodic memory
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
17. ……….. is the process of gaining access to stored, coded
information when it is needed.
(a) Retrieval
(b) Encoding
(c) Storage
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
18. What we remember of a text is not a copy of the
to-be-remembered material but the material is elaborated, simplified
and changed in
many ways at the time of input-these are called
(a) Reconstructive process
(b) Constructive process
(c) Destructive process
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
19. ………… was the first scholar who decided to measure memory
objectively.
(a) William James
(b) BY. Skinner
(c) Hermann Ebbinghaus
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
20. The method …….. in ordinary learning forces the learner
to define and select what is to be remembered.
(a) Recall
(b) Recognition
(c) Self-recitation
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
21. Consider the following stages
(1) Storage (2)
Encoding
(3) Retrieval (4)
Recognition
The correct sequence of these stages in the memory
information flow is:
(a) 2, 1, 4, 3
(c) 2, 1, 3, 4
(b) 1, 2, 3, 4
(d)1, 2, 4, 3
Ans. (c)
22. People with ……. may forget their names, where they have
come from, who their spouses are and many other details
of their past
lives.
(a) Dementia
(b) Dream amnesia
(c) Defensive amnesia
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
23. The selective dropping of details and the tendency to
accentuate certain features of remembered events is called:
(a) Retroactive inhibition
(b) Systematic distortion
(c) Proactive inhibition
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
24……………is the process of receiving sensory input and
transforming it, into a form, or code, which can be stored.
(a) Storage
(b) Encoding
(c) Retrieval
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
25 In the Atkinson-Shiffrin
theory, memory starts with a sensory input from the:
(a) Brain
(b) Spinal cord
(c) Environment
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
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