Psychology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 6

Question 101 Psychology

The computer offered a new way to conceptualise mental processes and build detailed theories. What is this approach known as?

Correct answer C. Information processing approach

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Question 102 Psychology

Who is a famous psycholinguist?

Correct answer C. Noam Chomsky

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Question 103 Psychology

Which branch of psychology compares human abilities with those of animals, especially non-human primates?

Correct answer B. Evolutionary Psychology

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Question 104 Psychology

Who wrote the book ‘The Principles of Psychology’?

Correct answer A. William James

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Question 105 Psychology

In which year did the first issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience appear?

Correct answer C. 1989

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Question 106 Psychology

A psychiatric nurse typically holds which master’s qualification?

Correct answer C. M.S.N. with clinical specialisation in psychiatric nursing

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Question 107 Psychology

Which psychologists deal with academic psychological problems?

Correct answer B. Academic psychologist

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Question 108 Psychology

Which branch of psychology deals with the workplace?

Correct answer C. Industrial and organisational psychology

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Question 109 Psychology

According to Darwin, what explains variation in behaviour passed from one generation to the next?

Correct answer C. Inheritance

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Question 110 Psychology

The study of gender differences is part of which branch of psychology?

Correct answer D. Developmental Psychology

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Question 111 Psychology

Who proposed the concept of self-actualisation?

Correct answer A. Abraham Maslow

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Question 112 Psychology

What is the group in an experiment that receives no treatment called?

Correct answer A. Control group

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Question 113 Psychology

Through which part of the brain are the colour, smell and feel of flowers relayed?

Correct answer C. Thalamus

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Question 114 Psychology

What is the need to establish and maintain relationships with other people called?

Correct answer B. Need for affiliation

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Question 115 Psychology

According to Maslow, can a person with no job, no friends and no home be self-actualised?

Correct answer A. 100 percent no

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Question 116 Psychology

Who introduced the term n-Ach (need for achievement)?

Correct answer D. None of these

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Question 117 Psychology

How is repression best described?

Correct answer C. The primary defence mechanism

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Question 118 Psychology

What are enduring dimensions of personality that differentiate one person from another called?

Correct answer A. Trait

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Question 119 Psychology

Which procedure do experimenters use to decide whether a difference between experimental conditions is large enough to be trusted?

Correct answer A. Statistical analysis

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Question 120 Psychology

On what does the sense of taste depend?

Correct answer A. On one’s taste buds and the smell, temperature and texture of food

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