1) What are the problems associated with low birth weight?

8) The behavioral interpretation of depression relates it to ―learned

happiness.‖ The most obvious symptom of this condition is:
a) Susceptibility to infection
a) Passivity
b) Difficulty in maintaining body temperature c) Susceptibility to
infection b) Increased appetite

d) Difficulty with breathing, sucking swallowing and digestion c) Excessive-aggressiveness when threatened

e) None of the (a) (b) and (c) d) An increase in random maladaptive behavior

2) According to Piaget, the major accomplishment of the sensorimotor 9) Behavior therapists believe that insight is:
stage is:
a) A worthwhile goal
a) Abstract thinking b) Egocentrism
b) Non sufficient for behavior change
c) Centration
c) Not necessary for behavior change
d) Object permanence e) None of these
d) All of these
3) During the stage of concrete operations children:
10) The suggested cause of abnormal behavior from the cognitive
a) Understand the concept of reversibility perspective is:

b) Do not yet understand the concept of conversation a) Faulty learning

c) Are able to solve abstract problems d) None of these b) Early childhood experiences

4) Studies show that an ―authoritarian family‖ tends to produce an c) Unconscious unresolved conflicts
adolescent who is:
d) Faulty thinking
a) Dependent and obedient b) Self-reliant
11) The most frequently occurring major psychological disorder is:
c) Independent but deserved
a) Phobias
d) Surface-complaint but rebellious underneath
b) Schizophrenia
5) Child-rearing methods in Pakistan:
c) Depression
a) Differ little from those in other countries
d) Bipolar disorder
b) Differ from one social class to another
12) Person-centered therapy is best described as:
c) Have changed very little over the past fifty years
a) Confrontive b) Structured
d) Are now pretty much the same from one social class to the next
c) Nondirective d) Objective
6) According to Erickson‘s theory, the struggle during adolescence is:
13) Systematic desensitization is used in treatment of:
a) Intimacy versus isolation
a) Schizophrenia b) Mood disorders
b) Initiative versus role confusion c) Competence versus inferiority
c) Phobias d) Somatoform disorders
7) A major defining characteristic of personality disorder is that they:
14) Guilford‘s structure of intellect model of intelligence is notable
a) Are psychological, more from society‘s view than from that of the because:
person‘s who have them
a) It separate operations from content and product b) It rejects the idea
b) Reflect a lack of contrast with reality c) Are comparatively easy to of gender feature
treat
c) It yields 180 unique intellectual factors d) All of these
d) Are frequently relative, i.e. short term responses to stress
15) The most important criterion of whether an individual should be 1) The junction where the axon of a sending neuron communicates with
considered retarded is that individual‘s: a receiving neuron is called the:

a) Social competence a) Reuptake site b) Receptor site c) Synapse

b) Mental age d) Axon terminal e) None of these

c) IQ 2) The autonomic nervous system differs from the somatic nervous

system in that its operation is largely:
d) Ability to learn to speak
a) Involuntary b) Voluntary
16) Improved job satisfaction result in—-in work performance and—–
in turnover: c) Controlled by the brain

a) Decrease: decrease d) Controlled by the spinal chord e) None of these

b) Increase: no change 3) The most fundamental principle of perceptual organization is called

the:
c) Increase: increase
a) Figure-ground relationship b) Volley principle
d) No change: decrease
c) Dark adaptation phenomenon d) Law of closure
17) Some employers allow their employees to create their own
sceduals within set parameters. This is called: e) None of these

a) Job sharing 4) Which of the following phenomena was studied by parlor?

b) Job enrichment c) Time sharing a) Maturation

d) Flextime b) Animal cognition

18) All of the following are some of the major sources of work stress c) Operant conditioning
EXCEPT:
d) Classical conditioning
a) Little control b) Shift work
e) None of these
c) High decision latitude d) Discrimination
5) What can occur if a person believes that a connection exists between
19) Bonuses, recognition awards, praise and time off improve an act and its consequences when there is no relationship between the
motivation through the two?

application of: a) Classical conditioning b) Superstitious behavior

a) Performance appraisal c) Shaping d) Sequential learning e) None of these

b) Benefits 6) Advertisers place beautiful people or likeable places and objects with
the products they are trying to sell because these items:
c) Reinforcement
a) Distract from the disadvantages of the products
d) Objective criteria
b) Cause pleasant feelings to be evoked
20) The Binet-Simon scale was adapted for American use by:
c) Are part of the products‘ basic qualities
a) Thurston
d) Are just elements of scenery
b) Terman
e) None of these
c) Wechsler
7) The body‘s natural tendency to maintain a state of internal balance
d) Binet or equilibrium is called:

a) Arousal
b) Opponent process c) A compromise between object size and perspective size d) Retinal
size
c) Homeostasis
e) None of these
d) Instinct
13) The view that we are born with the ability to perceive the way we
e) None of these do it held by:

8) Concerns with meeting standards of excellence and accomplishing a) Sensory psychologists

difficult tasks refer to need for:
b) Nativists
a) Affiliation
c) Empiricists
b) Achievement
d) Contemporary psychologists
c) Power
e) None of these
d) Apperception
14) The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while
e) None of these resisting distracting stimuli is called:

9) Which of the following condition is not associated with prolonged a) Concentrated attending
sensory deprivation?
b) Stimulus focusing
a) Inability to concentrate
c) Selective attention
b) A satisfying-relaxed feeling
d) Structured perceiving
c) Hallucinations
e) None of these
d) Confusion
15) In Freud‘s theory of personality:
e) None of these
a) The ego obeys the reality principle
10) Presence of others may interfere with performance due to:
b) The id operates by secondary process thinking c) The super-ego
a) Social inhabitation obeys the pleasure principle

b) Social loafing d) The ego operates by primary process thinking e) None of these

c) Distraction 16) Trail theory has been criticized on the ground that:

d) All of these a) Traits may be highly dependent on the situation

e) None of these b) Moderator variable are often very influential

11) Psychology has been defined by psychologists as: c) They often do not specify how traits are organized within the
personality
a) The study of behavior
d) All of the (a), (b) and (c)
b) The study of mental activity
e) None of the (a), (b) and (c)
c) The science that studies behavior and mental process
17) When we receive mixed information about a person, we tend to
d) None of these
base our impression on the information that is:
e) All of these
a) Favorable
12) When we look at a distant object, we usually judge its size by:
b) Unfavorable c) Received first d) Received last e) None of these
a) Object size
18) Most of the social psychological research on attitude change has
been generated by theories concerning:
b) Perspective size
a) Consistency in attitudes and behavior b) Medical model

b) Cognitive dissonance c) Psychosocial model

c) Self-perception d) None of these

d) Attribution 26) One abnormal behavior was associated with witch craft:

e) None of these a) True b) False

19) The public opinion survey is: 27) A feeling of apprehension or tension is:

a) A passive record of opinion a) Frustration

b) Limited to what the public believes at one moment in time b) Panic

c) Generally ignored by successful politicians c) Anxiety

d) Increasingly helping to shape opinion as well as measure it 28) Which of the following treatments deal with phobias by gradual
exposure?
e) None of these
a) Super ego control
20) The objectivity of science lies in:
b) Systematic desensitization
a) The capability of scientists to avoid the prejudices of their society
c) Reinforcement
b) The choice of question studied
d) Dreams
c) Its methodology d) All of these
e) None of these
e) None of these
29) The operation of the brain‘s neurotransmitters is altered because:
21) The combination of responses or ideals in novel way is called:
a) Use of LDS
a) Exploration b) Creativity c) Thinking d) None
b) Use of alcohol
22) Group intelligence testing is better than individual testing:
c) None of these
a) True b) False c) None
30) Researches show that poor performance is the result of:
23) Birth typically occurs after:
a) Poor conditions b) Job satisfaction c) Both (a) and (b) d) None of
a) Forty weeks conception these3

b) Thirty eight weeks conception 31) Low job satisfaction is likely to bring about high absenteeism:

c) Four weeks conception a) False b) True

d) None of these 32) The term propinquity explains:

24) Longitudinal researches investigate: a) Geographical proximity

a) Behavior through times as subject age b) Why people affiliate with one another

b) Behavior of different ages are compared c) Both (a) and (b)

c) None of these d) A and Both d) None of these

25) The cause of abnormal behavior is only physiological, it is explained 33) Group think refers to:
by:
a) Deterioration of mental efficiency b) Deterioration of physical energy
a) Psycho model c) Think tank
d) None of these a) Four components b) Six components

34) Main functions of stimulants are: c) Three components d) None of these

a) To alleviate tension 41) Developmental psychologists believe that two factors that influence
human development are:
b) To provide energy and alertness
a) Motivation and emotion
c) Prescribed for insomnia
b) Self and others
d) None of these
c) Genetic makes up and experience
35) Chromosomal anomalies can be recognized by slanting eyes and flat
nose: d) Rewards and punishments

a) Down‘s syndrome 42) Motor skills are largely a result of:

b) PKU a) Learning

c) Langdon Down‘s syndrome b) Maturational process

36) Characters disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive behavior are c) Practice

developed due to disturbed parent-child relation in the:
d) Observing other
a) Later Oedipal phase
43) In Piaget‘s theory, the first two years of life are called the —–
b) Paranoid stage stages:

c) Libido a) Paralinguistic b) Exploratory

d) None of these c) Sensorimotor d) Preoperational

37) According to the Piaget, from 2 to 7 years of age, language is 44) Learning theories explain attachment of infants to their parents in
developed slowly and gradually this stage is called: items of:

a) Preoperational stage a) Conditioning

b) Egocentric stage b) Observational learning

c) Sensorimator stage c) The maturation of perceptual skills

d) None of these d) Cognitive development

38) Speech like but meaningless sound appear between 3 months to 45) Freud was among the first to suggest that abnormal behavior:
one year is termed as:
a) Can have a hereditary basis
a) Syntax b) Babble
b) Is not the result of demonic possession
c) Conversation d) None of these
c) Is psychology caused
39) The ability to deal with new problems and encounters is technically
called as: d) Can result from biological factors

a) Crystallized intelligence 46) Which of the following is not a common symptom of the
depression?
b) G or g-factor of intelligence
a) Insomnia
c) Fluid intelligence
b) Delusions
d) None of these
c) Poor appetite
40) The triachric theory of intelligence suggests that there are:
d) Lethargy
47) Gradual exposure to actual feared situation is called: d) All involve some sort of operant conditioning

a) Cognitive desensitization 55) Research has suggested that compulsive behavior persists because:

b) In vivo desensitization a) It reduces anxiety

c) Flooding b) There is some underlying conflict

d) Breaking of resistance c) Others begin to expect it

48) Rotational –emotive therapy is a type of: d) It diverts the attention of the individual from the problem

a) Psychoanalysis 56) A perceptual experience, which is not grounded in reality, is called

a/an:
b) Client-centered therapy
a) Delusion
c) Cognitive –behavior therapy d) Behavior therapy
b) Illusionary images
49) The concept of intelligence is closely related to:
c) Hallucinations
a) Motivation b) Learning
d) Spontaneous discharge of sensory neurons
c) Perception d) Cognition
57) The hallucinations of schizophrenic are most likely to be:
50) Most IQ tests assess:
a) Auditory
a) Academic motivation b) Convergent thinking
b) Visual
c) Perceptual motor skills d) Creativity
c) Tactual
51) Addictive disorders include:
d) Olfactory
a) Alcoholism and drug addiction
58) Among people with severe mood disorder, ——- is most common:
b) Overeating
a) Mania
c) Sociopathalogy
b) Depression
d) All the above
c) Manic-depression
52) Seizures, confusions, delusions and hallucinations are symptoms of :
d) Euphoria
a) Advanced alcoholism b) Delirium tremens
59) Rogers believes that all of us are born with:
c) Alcoholic withdrawal d) All of the above
a) Unconditional positive regard
53) The central concept in Gestalt therapy is:
b) A drive for self fulfillment
a) Awareness
c) A sense of individuality and uniqueness
b) Self-fulfillment
d) A variety of incongruence, which must be resolved in infancy and
c) Self-control early childhood

d) Desensitization 60) Tests that employ real life problems that the examinee is likely to
face on the job are called:
54) The techniques used in behavior modification:
a) Job tasks
a) Stress interpersonal interactions
b) Valid tests
b) Employ the principal of learning
c) Situational tests
c) Are capable to a very limited rang of psychological problems
d) Projective techniques 67) A need to establish and maintain relationship with other people:

61) The group in an experiment which receives no treatment is called: a) Achievement motivation

a) Control group b) Need for affiliation

b) Experimental group c) None of these

c) No group 68) Term n-ach was introduced by:

d) All a) Mc Cleland

62) The portion of your nervous system which controls breathing and b) Jung
digestion is:
c) Maslow
a) Axon
d) None of these
b) Autonomic
69) Repression refers to:
c) Linear circuit
a) Primary defense mechanism
d) None of these
b) Regression
63) The color, smell and feeling of the flowers are relayed through what
part of brain: c) Frustration

a) Acetylcholine d) None of these

b) Thalamus 70) Enduring dimensions of personality characteristics differentiating

people from another is called:
c) Motor area
a) Factor analysis
d) None of these
b) Trait
64) A hungry person would find food to be a:
c) Determinism
a) Primary reinforce
d) None of these
b) Secondary reinforce
71) The theory which suggests that people learn attitude by observing
c) None of these d) All their own behavior is:

65) A psychologist explains you that learning can be best defined in a) Operant conditioning b) CR
terms of underlying thought process. What theory is being stated:
c) Self-perception d) None of these
a) Social learning
72) Theory of cognitive dissonance is offered by:
b) Cognitive learning
a) Skinner b) Bandura
c) Trial and error
c) Festinger
d) None of these
d) None of these
66) According to Maslow, a person with no job, no friends and no house
can be self actualized: 73) The ability to view the world in 3 dimensions and perceive distance
is:
a) 100 percent yes
a) Depth perception b) Illusion
b) 100 percent no
c) Delusion d) None of these
c) None of these
74) According to Bandura, one is socialized by:
d) A and B
a) Punishment b) Observation (a) Pavilov

c) Food d) None of these (b) J B Waston

75) Crowding causes increase in heart rate and the level of adrenaline: (c) Hull

a) No b) Yes c) Both (d) Gesell

76) Studies demonstrate that greater genetic similarity is associated 83. The process whereby the genetic factors limit an individual's
with greater similarity of attitudes: responsiveness to the environment is known as

a) True b) False c) Both (a) Canalization.

77) A theory that states that emotions are a join result of non-specific (b) Discontinuity.
physiological arousal and interpretation of the arousal is called:
(c) Differentiation.
a) Two-factor theory of emotion
(d) Range of reaction.
b) James-Lange theory of emotion
84. In order to develop the spirit of labour in students
c) Bem‘s theory of emotion
(a) The teacher himself should indulge in labour
d) None of these
(b) The teacher should deliver lectures on the importance of labour
78) Maintenance of an internal biological balance is called:
(c) Students should be given opportunities to do labour from time to
a) Instinct b) Need time

c) Homeostasis (d) Students should be given examples of laboring people

d) None of these 85. A child has been admitted to your school who belongs to a back
ward family/background from the cultural viewpoint. You will
79) The part of personality that provides a buffer between the id and
the out side world is: (a) Keep him in a class in which, there are many more students of
backward background from the cultural viewpoint
a) Super-ego
(b) Send a teacher to know more about the backward cultural
b) Ego background of the child

c) Ego-ideal (c) Keep him in a normal class but will make special arrangements for
teaching him, keeping his special needs in view
d) None of these
(d) Advise him to take up vocational education
80) Specialized cells of nervous system carry:
86. All of the following can be signs that a child is gifted, except
a) Messages b) Reflexes
(a) Early development of a sense of time
c) Both (a) and (b)
(b) Interest in encyclopaedias and dictionaries
d) None of the (a) and (b)
(c) Uneasy relationships with peers.
81. A major strength of ecological theory is its framework for explaining
(d) Easy retention of facts
(a) Environmental influences on development.
87. If heredity is an important determinant of a specific behaviour,
(b) Biological influences on development.
what prediction can we make about expression of the behaviour in
identical twins reared apart compared to its expression in fraternal
(c) Cognitive development.
twins reared apart?
(d) Affective processes in development.
(a) Fraternal twins will express the behaviour more similarly than
82. All of the following advanced principles of child development that identical twins.
are closely allied to the stimulus response learning theory, except
(b) There will be little similarity in the expression of the behaviour in 93. A normal child of twelve years of age is most likely to
either set of twins.
(a) Have difficulty with gross motor coordination
(c) Identical twins will express the behaviour more similarly than
fraternal twins. (b) Have feelings of anxiety about pleasing adults

(d) The behaviour will be expressed as similarly by identical twins as it is (c) Confine his/her interests to here and now
by fraternal twins.
(d) Be eager for peer approval
88. Frobel‘s most important contribution to education was his
94. Creative writing should be an activity planned for
development of the
(a) Only those children reading on grade level
(a) Vocational school (b) Public high school (c) Kindergarten (d) Latin
School
(b) Only those children who can spell and also, can write cohesive
sentences
89. Of the following, the main purpose of state certification of teachers
is to
(c) Only those children who want to write for the newspaper of the
class
(a) Monitor the quality of teacher training institutions
(d) All children
(b) Provide for a uniform standard of entry-level teacher competency
throughout the state
95. Of the following, the most promising step for a teacher to take in
order to improve class discipline is to
(c) Exclude from the profession those not trained in pedagogy
(a) Note specific infractions of class rules in the marking book
(d) Exclude from the profession those who are mentally unhealthy
(b) Evaluate his/her materials, methods and approaches to children
90. The key difference between evolutionary and cultural change is that
evolutionary change alters _____ whereas cultural change alters
(c) Consult the class and agree upon a graduated series of punishments
(a) Reproduction; environment
(d) Call a parent – teacher meeting to discuss the situation
(b) Heredity; environment
96. The question "Will the shy child who never speaks turn into a quiet,
shy adult or wilL the child become a sociable, talkative person?" is
(c) Environment; behavior
concerned with which developmental issue?
(d) Development; learning
(a) Maturation
91. The current view of childhood assumes that
(b) Continuity and discontinuity
(a) Children are similar to adults in most ways.
(c) Cultural universals versus cultural relativism
(b) Children are best treated as young adults.
(d) Nature and nurture
(c) Childhood is basically a "waiting period."
97. A child from a disorganized home will experience the greatest
(d) Childhood is a unique period of growth and change. difficulty with:

92. In preparing a fifth grade class to take a standardized reading test (a) Well structured lessons
the teacher is best advised to:
(b) Independent study
(a) Tell the children the test is very important and they should do the
(c) Programmed instruction
best they can
(d) Workbooks
(b) Ditto key questions from a previous test and allow the pupils to
answer them
98. Most psychologists believe that development is due
(c) Coach the below grade level readers, as the rest of the class will do
(a) Largely to nature. (b) Largely to nurture.
well anyway
(c) To nature and nurture acting separately.
(d) Give the pupils practice in answering questions similar to the type
that will appear on the test
(d) To an interaction of nature and nurture. (d) Similar test questions

99. The normal twelve –year –old child is most likely to: 105. Organismic theories of development hold that

(a) Have difficulty with gross motor coordination (a) Psychological structures and processes within the child help
determine his/her development.
(b) Have anxiety feelings about pleasing adults
(b) Physical structures and processes within the child help determine
(c) Confine his/her interests to the here and now his/her development.

(d) Be eager for peer approval (c) Passively developed structures and processes within the child help
determine
100. The reason why students run from school is
his/her development.
(a) Lack of interesting class teaching work
(d) Slowly developed structures and processes within the child help
(b) Lack of interest in studies on the part of students
determine his/her development.
(c) Not giving punishment to students
106. A Person believes that nurture strongly influences the
development of his child. He
(d) Callous attitude of teachers towards the problem
would not agree with the importance of:
101. You find a student to be intelligent. You will
(a) Genetic factors.
(a) Remain pleased with him
(b) Exposure to peers.
(b) Not give him additional homework
(c) The types of toys at home.
(c) Motivate him so that he can make more progress
(d) The warmth displayed by the parents.
(d) Inform his parents about the fact that he is intelligent
107. If student is too shy to participate in the class, you will
102. If some students are not in a mood to study in the class, you will
(a) Not ask questions from him
(a) Force them to study
(b) Ask only those questions from him whose answers can be given by
(b) Tell those students to leave the class and enjoy
him
(c) Warn them that they must study else you will report the matter to
(c) Not ask those questions from him whose answers are beyond his
the Principal
means and due to which, he may become objects of ridicule in the class
(d) Tell them some interesting things related to their interests or your
(d) Ask questions from him only when he is keen to answer them
own subject
108. How will you bring a hyperactive child on the right path?
103. Child development is defined as a field of study that
(a) Make him sit in front of the class and keep a strict vigil on him
(a) Examines change in human abilities.
(b) Allocate a seat for him in a corner of the class
(b) Seeks to explain behaviour across the life span.
(c) Give him tasks of watering trees, cleaning the blackboard, making
(c) Compares children to adults to senior citizens.
toys of clay etc.
(d) Accounts for the gradual evolution of the child's cognitive, social,
(d) None of above
and other capacities.
109. Knowledge of child psychology is a must for a primary teacher.
104. The term ‗identical elements‘ is closely associated with:
That is because
(a) Group instruction
(a) It helps in making children disciplined
(b) Transfer of learning
(b) The examination result is improved
(c) Jealousy between twins
(c) It becomes a convenient mode for motivating children
(d) It helps the teacher in understanding the behavior of children

110. The current movement of behavior modification, wherein tokens

are awarded for correct responses, is a reflection of:

(a) Herbart‘s Five Steps

(b) Lock‘s Tabula rasa

(c) Thorndike‘s Law of Effect

(d) Thorndike‘s Law of Exercise

ANSWERS

1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (c) 7. (c) 8. (c) 9. (b) 10. (b) 11.
(d) 12. (d) 13. (d) 14. (d) 15. (b) 16. (d) 17. (b) 18. (d) 19. (d) 20.
(d) 21. (c) 22. (d) 23. (d) 24. (b) 25. (a) 26. (a) 27. (d) 28. (c) 29.
(d) 30. (c)