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WorksheetsIntroduction to Psychology Worksheet Questions (Review Material)
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
The study of Psychology involves the?
Study of the brain
Study of the hormones
Study of the mind
Study of the unknown
He described Psychology as an investigation of the experience and behavior of man.
Munn
Marx
Schlesinger
Morgan
It is the new development in Psychology that emphasizes the significance of free will or the human ability to make choices.
Humanism
Freudism
Behaviorism
Psychoanalytic
Which of the following traits is not inherited from the parents?
polydactyly
feeblemindedness
quality of the teeth
laziness
Which of the following is not true?
Changes due to maturation are determined by heredity.
The interaction of heredity and environment in the course of time is a significant factor in maturation.
The environment of identical twins strengthens their being exactly alike.
None of the above
The stage in man’s psychosocial development when an individual is faced with identity crisis?
puberty
adolescence
early adulthood
third to fifth year of life
The capability of a child to learn, depends on his age because learning is solely identified by maturation.
True
Sometimes true
False
Cannot be determined
The part of the nervous system that stimulates the endocrine glands to produce hormones that communicate with specific organs controlling the reactions to stress, sex behavior, energy level and the like.
central nervous system
peripheral nervous system
autonomic nervous system
somatic nervous system
It is automatically produced by the body and is believed to protect the organism and to preserve its life.
reflex response
sensori-motor function
nerve impulse
none of the above
It has been tested in animals that female specie can be male.
sociologically possible (merged with the male species)
environmentally influenced
surgically induced (change of organ)
physiologically true (lost of gonads)
The major endocrine gland responsible for the growth of an individual.
pituitary gland
thyroid gland
pancreas
gonads
Secretion of too little of either the glucagon or the insulin causes
hyperglycemia
hypoglycemia
inhibition of gastric juice secretion
dwarfism
These are receiving mechanisms within the sense organs that are sensitive to certain stimuli in the environment, responsible for the transmission of messages to the brain.
nerve cells
brain cells
receptor cells
none of the above
Which of the following describes the proper flow of light as it passes through the parts of the eye?
iris – aqueous humor – cornea – retina – vitreous humor
cornea – iris – aqueous humor – retina – vitreous humor
cornea – iris – aqueous humor – vitreous humor – retina
iris – cornea – acqueous humor – retina – vitreous humor
It deals with the position of the body in relation to gravity and with the motion of the body as a whole.
kinesthetic sense
gustatory sense
cutaneous sense
static sense
Which of the following statements is true?
Intelligence is the ability to cut through appearances and confusions to reach understanding.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt effectively to the environment.
An individual’s intelligence is proportionate to his/her ability to carry on abstract thinking
All of the above
It is the capacity of an individual for insight into complex relationships.
Crystallized Intelligence
Thurstone’s Weighted Group-Factor Theory
Fluid Intelligence
Guilford’s Theory
Compute the IQ of the four years old child obtaining a mental age of 84.
100
133
57.1
175
He believes that trait approach best describes personality.
Raymund Cattell
Sigmund Freud
Gordon W. Alport
Burrhus F. Skinner
It is the test that asks the person to give his/her impressions on how he/she sees the inkblots, what they represent or what the inkblots remind him/her of.
Thematic Apperception Test
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Sentence Completion Test
MMPI
It consists of 19 cards of ambiguous black-and-white pictures from which the respondent make out the best story he could.
Holtzman Inkblot Test
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
The sentence Completion Test
MMPI
He defines attitude as a relatively stable evaluative response toward an object that has cognitive, affective and probably behavioral components or consequences.
Munn
Sartain
Morgan
Lamberth
It is a scale where favorable and unfavorable statements toward an object, are sorted into eleven categories having category 1 as the favorable extreme and so on.
Thurstone Scales
Likert Scales
Semantic Differential Scale
None of the above
An attitude learning where attitudes are reinforced and negative attitudes are punished.
imitation
instrumental conditioning
classical conditioning
none of the above
Sensation is a prerequisite in perception.
true
false
sometimes true
cannot be determined
In either processes of a sensation or a perception, this is the main headquarter and the decision-maker.
sense organ
endocrine glands
nervous system
brain
When we see a tall plant the first time, we name it a tree and place the name in our memory for future references, so that the next time we see the same thing we would no longer think of something else but retrieve the name from our memory.
The statement is a valid process of perception.
The statement describes one of the functions of perception.
All of the above
None of the above
What largely influences perceptual set?
context
stimuli
past experiences
acquired knowledge
If classical conditioning is the basis for learning emotional and attitudinal responses, operant conditioning
involves changes in perceiving information
is learning by observation and imitation of others
problem-solving responses based on ones attitudes and feelings
all of the above
It stores materials for only 20–30 seconds.
Read Only Memory
Long Term Memory
Short Term Memory
None of the above
One of the following statements is not a principle of learning and memory.
Reinforcing correct responses immediately makes learning most effective.
Practicing a response in a variety of settings increases both retention and transferability.
The more meaningful the material, the fewer trials are necessary to learn it.
Meaningful learning is more permanent and more transferable than rote learning.
One of the following statements is false.
Every individual talks to himself when he is thinking.
Concepts are inborn information stored in the human brain.
Thinking is a covert and private activity of every individual.
Thinking enables the individual to understand and forecast response relationships between objects and events in their absence.
Conceptual thinking is
an abstraction of an aspect of a group of objects.
a symbolic construction representing common and general attributes of objects.
a thinking process with and about words.
a symbolic mediation of abstract thinking.
When our thinking processes are directed toward finding new conclusions, methods or forms of expression, we are doing
divergent thinking
convergent thinking
creativity thinking
verbal thinking
Creativity thinking differs from problem solving
Creativity thinking is seeking novelty – new problems and new solutions. While in problem-solving, the person aims to address a conflict at hand.
Both Problem-solving and creative thinking is a four-stage thinking processes.
A person with high IQ is a good problem solver and not a creative thinker.
None of the above.
How do motivations and emotions differ?
stimuli arousing them
actions they induce
emotions are spices of life, motivations are not
all of the above
Emotions may either facilitate or interfere with the motivated behavior.
true for some people
true to all situations
never applicable
inconclusive statement
James Lanage Theory of Emotion state that
thalamus is the center of all human emotions.
Emotional state of human depends on his interpretation of situations.
Emotions are influence by the physiology of the person.
Emotional situations are accompanied by either internal or external bodily changes.
Which of the following can qualify as motives?
power
sex
esteem
all of the above
An illness caused by psychological stress resulting to physiological symptoms.
mental disorder
psychosomatic illness
phobias
none of the above
Which of the following situations denote active state of consciousness?
movements in sleep
choosing what clothes to wear for a meeting
answering the phone when it rings
sneezing when our nose gets irritated
The following are the adaptive functions of consciousness except
Consciousness permits us to choose our course of action.
It enables us to make long-term plans.
It involves the retrieval of information from memory.
It allows us to cope in automatic ways and rigid ways.
What can be benefited from meditation?
time with the supernatural.
Being able to float.
A trance back to the past
Relaxed state, peace of mind
this substance causes a feeling of transient euphoria followed by a general depression.
Caffeine
cocaine
alcohol
LSD
Among the drugs used to alter state of consciousness, which are clinically useful and commonly used?
Stimulants
Hallucinogenic drugs
Narcotics
Tranquillizers
What are the common sources of frustrations?
external factors
self induced
both a and b
neither a nor b
It is the continuous process of satisfying the needs of man either physiological or psychological.
Coping
Adjustment
Adaptation
Frustration
What we normally experience when our goals or needs are not compatible with environment or social requirements.
Frustration
Anger
Disappointment
Conflict
As a response to stress, this general mobilization of the body's resources may be so complete that it interferes with the normal functioning of the body.
General Adaptation Syndrome
Sensitization
Immunization
None of the above
It facilitates the assessment of the strength of an individual's coping style.
Defense Mechanism
Prediction
Essi Systems
None of the above
The balancing of and the coping with situations and events to know the appropriate reaction required by the teacher.
Adaptability
Situation Mastery
Direct Action
Self-care
What characterizes normality?
Insecurity
Unproductiveness
Self Control
Self-centeredness
The following are evident disorders from infancy to adolescence except
alcoholism
hyperactivity
retardation
eating disorder
a behavioral disorder caused by emotional tension brought about by frustration, conflicts, repression or marked insecurity.
Hypochondria
Alcoholism
Neurosis
Hysteria
Organic psychoses may be caused by
Toxins
Infectious diseases
Old age
All of the above
These are the morally insane and psychopathic deviate who have no sense of responsibility, loyalty, or conscience.
drug dependent
schizoid
anti-social
passive and aggressive
It is a form of psychosis which does not involve intellectual deterioration.
Paranoia
schizophrenia
hysteria
anxiety reaction
This method determines the degree of disintegration or disorganization, if any, of both the personality and the nervous system.
Case History Method
Neuropsychiatric Examination
Psychometric Methods
Psychommimetic Research
A medically-based therapy where the fibers that connect the frontal lobe of the brain and the limbic system and the hypothalamus are destroyed.
Electroconvulsive therapy
Aversion therapy
Psychosurgery
Directive therapy
What characterizes primary prevention of mental disorders?
Primary prevention is also known as crisis intervention.
This stage involves rehabilitation of job and interpersonal related skills.
Prevention of suicidal cases is an example of this stage of prevention.
It aims to clean the environment with stresses allowing the patient to focus to unavoidable ones
