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WorksheetsGeneral Psychology Basics — Chapter 1
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The research object of psychology is:
The spiritual life of humans granted by God
Neurophysiological mechanisms of human psychological phenomena
Studying the nature of human psychological phenomena
The essence of human psychological phenomena is:
Harmony among social relationships
Conditioned reflexes
All three options
The functions of human psychological phenomena are to motivate, orient, control, and regulate human activity. Which option best reflects this?
Help the organism adapt to the environment
Inhibit and promote all human activities
Predict the results of actions
All three options
In Nguyen Du’s Tale of Kieu: “Cung trong mot tieng to dong. Nguoi ngoai cuoi nu, nguoi trong khoc tham.” What feature does this verse illustrate?
Human psychology has a social–historical nature
Psychology reflects objective reality
Human psychology is subjective
Because human psychology is subjective, in teaching teachers should:
Organize engaging activities that draw students in
Build a strong student collective
Implement the principle of fitting the individual (sát đối tượng)
All three options
The subjectivity of psychological images is explained by:
Differences in individuals’ living environments
Individual differences in nervous systems, life circumstances, educational conditions, and personal activity
The richness of social relationships
All three options
In the teaching and education process, teachers must implement the principle of fitting the individual (sát đối tượng) because:
Psychology reflects objective reality
Human psychology has a social–historical nature
Human psychology is subjective
All three options
The factor that directly determines the formation and development of human psychology, consciousness, and personality is:
Innate endowment and heredity
Living environment
Education
Personal active engagement
Children raised by animals from infancy do not acquire human psychology because:
Social relations determine the nature of human psychology
The living environment determines the nature of human psychology
Forms of activity and communication with other personalities directly determine the formation of human psychology
All three options
The primary mechanism for forming and developing human psychology is:
Heredity
Acquiring societal culture
Self-awareness and self-education
All three options
Psychology has a material basis in brain activity. This is the view of:
Dialectical materialism
Structural psychology
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Because human psychology has a social–historical nature, we should:
Study the social environment and the culture within which people live and act
Organize activities and interactions for research, development, and psychological education
Apply the principle of fitting the individual (sát đối tượng) in communication and education
The social–historical nature of human psychological phenomena is manifested in:
Two points
Three points
Four points
Five points
Because human psychology originates in the objective world, we should:
Study the social environment and cultural context in which people live and act
Study the life circumstances in which people live and act
Organize activities and relationships for research, development, and creation of human psychology
Apply the principle of fitting the individual (sát đối tượng) in communication and education
Which statement best describes the relationship between the brain and psychology?
Physiological and psychological processes run in parallel without dependence
The brain secretes psychology
The brain is the material basis of psychology
The brain completely determines psychological life
Which of the following is a psychological attribute?
Ha is a small, pretty girl
An is thinking about visiting family on Sunday
Lan is a very sentimental person
Han vividly imagines stepping into a future university
A psychological phenomenon that lasts a relatively long time, with unclear beginning and end, is:
A psychological process
A psychological state
A psychological attribute
An unconscious phenomenon
“At every test time, Lan feels indescribably tense.” This is an example of:
Emotion
Mood
Feeling
Unconscious phenomenon
Which case below is a psychological process?
I love music
I am focusing on listening to the lecture
I am listening to the lecture
“I am sad without knowing why”
Which phenomenon below is a psychological state?
I am concentrating on drawing
I feel happy when viewing the painting “Golden Autumn”
I am a person who loves art
I am very happy to hear Nam passed the university entrance exam
Which phenomenon below is a psychological attribute?
I am painting
Every time I look at the painting “Golden Autumn,” I miss Russia intensely
I am a person who loves painting
I am very happy when I hear Nam passed the university entrance exam
A psychological phenomenon that occurs over a short time with a clear beginning, development, and end is called:
A psychological process
A psychological state
A psychological attribute
Both B and C
According to dialectical materialism, human psychology originates from:
The human brain
Objective reality
The unconscious
Instinct
According to behaviorism, what determines behavioral responses?
External stimuli
Social factors
Natural factors
The brain
According to humanistic psychology, the highest human need is:
Biological need
Need for esteem
Need for self-actualization
Need for safety
According to humanistic psychology, the lowest human need is:
Need for social belonging
Need for safety
Biological need
Material need
According to psychoanalysis, human psychological life is determined by:
The unconscious
Consciousness
Social factors
Natural factors
In communication and education, attending to the principle of fitting the individual (sát đối tượng) is based on which claim about the essence of psychological phenomena?
Psychology originates from objective reality
Human psychology is subjective
Human psychology has a social–historical nature
Psychology is the reflection of objective reality into the human brain
“When studying psychology, we must study the social living environment and culture in which people live and act.” This conclusion rests on which claim about the essence of psychological phenomena?
Human psychology has the function of being ‘non-brain’
Human psychology is subjective
Human psychology has a social–historical nature
Human psychology originates from objective reality
“To promote positive psychological development, we should organize healthy cultural activities and diverse forms of communication.” This conclusion rests on which claim about the essence of psychological phenomena?
Human psychology is subjective
Human psychology has a social–historical nature
Human psychology has the function of being ‘non-brain’
Psychology is a product of activity and communication
Why does human psychology have subjectivity?
Each person has different sensory structures and nervous systems
Each person has different circumstances and living environments
Each person’s level of active engagement differs
All three options
Human psychology can change because:
It originates in objective reality, and objective reality always changes
It is a product of activity and communication
It changes over time
All three options are wrong
According to dialectical materialism, the human brain plays what role?
Completely determines psychological life
Is the material basis
Controls human behavior
Is important
A psychological process is:
A psychological phenomenon lasting a relatively long time
A psychological phenomenon occurring over a short time with a clear beginning, development, and end
A psychological phenomenon occurring over a short time with a clear beginning, development, and end
A psychological phenomenon that is hard to change
A psychological attribute is:
A psychological phenomenon that persists over long durations
A psychological phenomenon with no end point
A psychological phenomenon that forms and disappears with difficulty and highlights the social nature of a person
A psychological phenomenon that cannot change
Psychology became an independent scientific discipline in which year?
1879
1789
1897
1878
One limitation of behaviorism is:
Downplaying the social nature of psychology
Human psychology cannot be studied or transformed
External stimuli have no meaning for human behavioral responses
Failing to find the origin of human behavioral responses
Listening to the same song, some praise it while others criticize it. This reflects which feature of psychology?
Human psychology has a social–historical nature
Human psychology is subjective
Psychology reflects objective reality into the brain
Psychology has the function of being ‘non-brain’
Which of the following is a psychological attribute?
I am happy because my teacher praised me
I am sad because of a low grade
Anh is deeply passionate about music
I am listening to music
Which psychological phenomenon below is a psychological attribute?
Disposition (tendency)
Emotion
Perception
Which factor did structural psychology absolutize the role of regarding human psychology?
Education
The unconscious
The brain
Individual activity
A psychological state is:
A psychological phenomenon that unfolds over a relatively long time with unclear beginning, course, and end
A psychological phenomenon that unfolds over a relatively long time with weak or moderate intensity
Psychological phenomena that unfold over a relatively long time
Psychological phenomena that accompany us throughout life
The fact that one person praises a film while another criticizes it reflects which characteristic of psychology?
Psychology has a social–historical nature
Psychology is subjective
Psychology reflects objective reality in the brain
All three above are wrong
Which of the following psychological phenomena is a psychological process?
Temperament
Memory
Personality
All three above
What role does individual activity play in the formation and development of psychology?
Prerequisite
Decisive
Fundamental
Important
In the objective world, which factor determines human psychology?
Natural relations
Economic relations
Social relations and social culture
Educational relations
Which psychological phenomenon below occurs for the shortest time?
Emotion
Mood
Affective tone of sensation
Emotional arousal
The same piece of music can create interest in one person but cause discomfort in another. This shows:
Originality
Vividness
Subjectivity
All three above
Which perspective holds that the unconscious determines the psychological life of humans?
Behaviorism
Structural psychology
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic psychology
In the narrow sense, psychology is understood as:
The entire emotional life of a person
All mental phenomena
Knowing oneself, others, and behaving appropriately
Whatever happens in the brain
In psychology, the relatively stable phenomena that are hard to form and hard to lose are called:
Psychological processes
Psychological states
Psychological traits
Psychological phenomena
To eliminate a bad behavior in a person, what should be done?
Investigate the cause
Influence their cognition
Influence feelings and train willpower
All three above
In the broad sense, psychology is:
The entire emotional life of a person
All mental phenomena occurring in the human brain
Understanding oneself and others
All three above
The functions of human psychological phenomena are:
To motivate, orient, control, and regulate human activity
To help the organism adapt to the environment
To inhibit and promote all human activities
To predict outcomes beforehand
In psychology, imagination is classified as:
A psychological process
A psychological trait
A psychological state
Will
What causes psychological change?
Changes in an individual’s living circumstances
Development of the community
Development of a nation’s history
All three above
In psychology, joy and sadness are classified as:
Sensation
Emotion
Psychological trait
Enthusiasm
The S–R formula belongs to which psychologist?
Freud
Maslow
J. Watson
D. Hume
In psychology, perception is classified into which group?
Psychological traits
Psychological states
Psychological processes
Feelings
Communication plays a role … in personality development. Communication is a condition … of individuals and humankind. The need for communication is one of the social needs that appears … in humans. Choose the correct sequence to complete the statement.
Important / indispensable / earliest
Important / fundamental / latest
Exists / fundamental / earliest
Exists / indispensable / earliest
Which of the following is a psychological state?
Emotion
Enthusiasm
Mood
Emotional arousal
Differences in the psychology of each person are caused by which factor(s)?
Characteristics of the brain
Living circumstances
Degree of personal activity
All three above
Human psychology has a social nature and a historical character because:
Human psychology originates from the objective world, with social origin being decisive
Human psychology is a product of activity and communication of individuals within society
Human psychology is regulated by both the personal and community histories
All three above
Human psychology differs greatly from animal psychology in that it:
Is subjective
Has a social nature and historical character
Is the result of reflecting objective reality
All three above
The necessary and sufficient condition for human psychological phenomena is:
The existence of the objective world and the brain
The objective world acting on the brain
The brain functioning normally
The objective world acting on the brain and the brain functioning normally
Children raised by animals from infancy do not develop human psychology because:
The living environment determines the nature of human psychology
Forms of activity and communication directly determine the formation of human psychology
Social relations determine the nature of human psychology
All three above
In psychology, character is classified as:
A psychological process
A psychological state
A psychological trait
Cognition
In psychology, tendencies are classified as:
A psychological process
A psychological state
A psychological trait
Will
Subjectivity in psychology is manifested in how many points?
1 point
2 points
3 points
4 points
Reflection is:
Interaction between one material system and another leaving traces in both systems
Interaction of one material system leaving traces only in the other system
Capturing the image of one material system onto another
The cause in one material system leaving traces only on the other
Different subjects receiving the impact of the same object from the objective world produce mental images of different degree and tone. This proves that:
Mental reflection is subjective
The objective world and its impact always create the same mental images in any subject
Mental images must be a result of creative, unique reflection
Mental reflection is creative and unique
The subjectivity of mental images is explained by:
Differences in individuals’ living environments
The richness of social relations
Distinct nervous-system features, living conditions, and the individual’s activity level
Differences only in individuals’ activity levels
Psychological factors play a fundamental, regulatory role in human activity because:
Psychology orients human activity
Psychology controls, monitors, and regulates human activity
Psychology motivates human activity
All three above
Psychology has a material basis in the activity of the brain. This is the viewpoint of:
Dialectical materialism
Structural psychology
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Which of the following is not a characteristic of psychological phenomena?
They are mental images that can be measured directly
They are mental phenomena yet exert great power
They are phenomena very familiar to each of us
All three above are wrong
Which statement best describes the nature of human psychological phenomena?
Human psychology reflects objective reality into the brain through the subject and has a social–historical nature
Human psychology is the historical experience of humankind individualized in each person
Psychology is a function of the brain
All three above
Based on the duration of existence of phenomena within personality structure, psychological phenomena are classified into:
Psychological states, psychological processes, psychological traits
Innate and inherited abilities, skills, habits, and intellect
Cognition, emotion, will, and activity
Sensation, perception, thinking, and memory
When forming a mental image of the world, the subject introduces their particularity into the brain, giving the image a strong subjective coloring. Choose the correct phrasing.
Brings the particularity / image / color
Brings the particularity / brain / color
Brings the particularity / image / tone
Brings the particularity / brain / tone
Human psychology is subjective. Therefore, in teaching, education, and communication, one must pay attention to the principle of:
Tailoring to individuals / appropriate behavior / target-oriented
Subject orientation / behavior / target-oriented
Active living / behavior / target-oriented
Subject orientation / relationships / target-oriented
While the subjectivity of psychology brings individual psychological tones, the social–historical nature of psychology:
Prevents control / brings uniformity
Brings distinctive personal tones / brings common psychological features of a society
Allows control / does not allow control
Brings subjectivity / brings objectivity
Psychological processes are phenomena that occur over a short duration with a relatively clear beginning, course, and end. Choose the best definition.
Phenomena that occur over a short duration with clear beginning, course, and end
Phenomena that occur over a long duration with unclear beginning and end
Stable, hard-to-form, hard-to-extinguish phenomena
Traits that persist throughout life
Because human psychology is a product of activity and communication, which conclusion follows?
Psychological study must examine the social environment and culture in which people live and act
Research must consider the specific circumstances in which people live and act
Activities and interpersonal relations must be organized to study, develop, and transform human psychology
Teaching should strictly follow the learner and avoid imposing one’s own psychology on others
In objective reality, which factor determines the content of psychology?
Natural factors
Social factors
The relationship between nature and humans
All three above
According to structural psychology, which factor plays the decisive role for mental life?
The human brain
External stimuli
The unconscious
Social factors
One contribution of behaviorism is:
Human psychology can be entirely studied and modified
Discovering the historical–social nature of human psychology
Revealing the role of some factor for human psychology
Pointing out the subjectivity of psychology
Which is an advantage of structural psychology?
It considers the role of education in human psychology
It considers the role of heredity in psychological development
It discovers the role of the living environment
It accounts for individual effort
In psychoanalysis, the unconscious operates according to which mechanism?
Pleasure
Reality
Repression
No specific mechanism
One contribution of psychoanalysis is:
Proposing therapeutic methods for mental disorders (e.g., free association, dream analysis)
Showing the role of society in human psychology
Claiming the unconscious decisively determines mental life
All three above are false
Siblings in the same family each have distinct personalities and abilities. This example shows:
Individual activity level differs among people
Cultural conditions differ
Nervous system characteristics differ
All three above
Psychology will always move and change together with:
An individual’s history
A nation’s history
A community’s history
All three above
Sensation plays the role of:
Orienting behavior for an individual’s activity
Driving motivation
A compass for all actions
All three above
Which school of psychology holds that external stimuli determine human behavioral responses?
Psychoanalysis
Activity psychology
Behaviorism
Structural psychology
The view that the brain determines human mental life and thinking belongs to:
Behaviorism
Humanistic psychology
Structural psychology
Psychoanalysis
“Psychology is the reflection of objective reality into the brain through the subject and has a socio‑historical nature.” This is the view of:
Structural psychology
Cognitive psychology
Humanistic psychology
None of the three above
The same stimulus acting on the same person at different times, moods, and health states produces psychological images with different levels and shades. This demonstrates that:
Psychological reflection is subjective
The objective world and its influence are merely pretexts for people to create any mental image
Mental images are not the result of reflecting the objective world
Psychology is creative and unique
Which sign characterizes sensory cognition?
It reflects external properties of things and phenomena when they directly act on the sense organs
It reflects objects in a generalized way
It reflects the essential properties of things and phenomena
It reflects indirectly through language
In teaching, teachers should speak loudly enough and write clearly. This shows human sensation follows the law of:
Interaction among sensations
Sensory threshold
Sensory adaptation
No law applies
Which law of sensation is illustrated by: “A child beaten many times will eventually ‘get used to’ the punishment”?
Interaction among sensations
Sensory threshold
Sensory adaptation
No law applies
The ability to change sensitivity to match changes in stimulus intensity is the content of:
The law of sensory thresholds
The law of stability
The law of sensory adaptation
The law of selection
The only source of knowledge is:
Perception
Insight
Thinking
Imagination
When moving from a bright place into darkness, at first you see nothing and then things become clearer. This phenomenon occurs because the sensitivity of vision:
Increases
Decreases
Does not change
Increases then decreases
Which sign most clearly reflects the essence of perception?
The subject’s reflection of the external world
The coordinated activity of multiple analyzing systems
A complete reflection of the external properties of surrounding objects and phenomena
Reflection of natural and social laws
People walking in a desert often see rivers and villages ahead. This illustrates the law of:
Illusion
Adaptation
Total perception
Blending
“A sad person finds no joy in the scenery.” This verse reflects which law of perception?
Illusion
Selection
Total perception
Objecthood
When reading, we often underline important ideas in red pen. This reflects which law of perception?
Illusion
Selection
Total perception
Stability
Which statement about perceptual illusion is incorrect?
It yields a distorted image of the object
It is unnecessary in human life
It depends on the perceptual context
It is infrequent but still lawful
Which sign characterizes the thinking process?
It reflects things and phenomena in all their attributes and parts
It reflects common features of some objects or phenomena
It reflects common and essential features and internal relations among things and phenomena
It occurs only when sense organs are directly stimulated
Which sign does not fit the human thinking process?
Reflecting life experiences
Unfolding as a process
Reflecting reality indirectly
Being generalized
Which intellectual operation separates an object or phenomenon into many parts and attributes to reflect it better?
Comparison
Synthesis
Analysis
Abstraction
In a commemorative issue celebrating the victory at Đống Đa, students created a modern, unique image of Emperor Quang Trung–Nguyễn Huệ. In this case, the students demonstrated:
A symbol of a symbol
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A memory symbol
All three above
One difference between imagination and thinking is:
It makes human activity conscious
It is less strict in problem solving
It is tied to sensory cognition
Both arise when facing a problematic situation
Which sign most clearly reflects the essence of imagination?
Constructing or reconstructing images that have never been perceived in the past
A complex mental act whose origin is not objective reality
Creating something new in personal experience by building new images on existing symbols
Reflecting objective reality acting on the senses
Faced with a problem situation, the problem‑solving ability of imagination:
Is accurate, rigorous, and logical
Is generalized
Lacks accuracy, rigor, and logic
All three above
The image of a “tiny little boy” was built using which method of imagination?
Combination by patching together elements
Association
Emphasis
All three above are wrong
Schemes and imagined diagrams are placed in the stage of rational cognition; similar to thinking, imagination:
Reflects objects and phenomena in a generalized way
Reflects the essence of things and phenomena
Reflects objects and phenomena indirectly
All three above
One similarity between sensory cognition and rational cognition is that both:
Reflect the world indirectly
Are generalized
Are psychological processes
All three above are wrong
Thinking differs from imagination mainly in that:
Thinking reflects indirectly
Thinking is generalized
The results and mode of reflection in thinking primarily unfold in language
All three above
One difference between sensory cognition and thinking is that sensory cognition:
Is a psychological process
Has the brain as its physiological basis
Reflects objective reality
Reflects directly
Faced with a problem situation, the problem‑solving ability of thinking:
Is accurate, rigorous, and logical
Is generalized
Lacks accuracy, rigor, and logic
All three above
The image in a “caricature” is constructed using which method of imagination?
Combination by patching together elements
Association
Which law of perception is applied when an overweight person wears striped clothing?
Law of overall perception
Law of selection
Law of illusion
Law of stability
The product of imagination is:
Level I image
Image of an image
Level II image
Both B and C
Which is the mode by which thinking reflects reality?
Thinking reflects in the form of images
Thinking reflects in the form of symbols
Thinking reflects in the form of language
All three of the above
The product of thinking is:
Level II image
Concepts, laws, etc.
Language
All three of the above
Which is the mode by which imagination reflects reality?
Imagination reflects in the form of images
Imagination reflects in the form of symbols
Imagination reflects in the form of language
All three of the above
In the work “Tắt đèn”, the image of chị Dậu was built using which method of imagination?
Typification
Combination
Emphasis
Association
Which of the following phenomena is not a sensation?
I feel ashamed
I feel sad
I feel hungry
Both A and B
Which of the following phenomena is a sensation?
I feel happy
I miss home
I feel hot
All three above are incorrect
Which characteristic of perception shows that its level of reflection is higher than sensation?
It is a psychological process
It reflects completely the external attributes of objects and phenomena
It reflects objects and phenomena themselves when they directly act on the senses
All three of the above
Which psychological process helps people reflect essential features and internal relations of objects and phenomena?
Sensation
Imagination
Emotion
Thinking
Which psychological process helps people reflect external features (color, shape, weight…) of objects and phenomena?
Perceptual cognition
Rational cognition
Both A and B
Sensation
When solving tasks of thinking, how are cognitive operations (analysis–synthesis; comparison; abstraction; generalization) carried out?
Exactly in the fixed order listed above
Correctly and completely, all operations of thinking
Each operation proceeds independently, unrelated to the others
Flexibly depending on the task of thinking
Perceiving a white sheet of paper as white even under red light shows that perception has the property of:
Stability
Overall perception
Illusion
Sensory interaction
If sensation and perception reflect objects and phenomena directly, then thinking reflects objects and phenomena indirectly and reflects what is new to us.
Directly / indirectly / the new
The thing itself / relations / the object
Indirectly / directly / the new
One / many / the object
Which of the following is not a characteristic of thinking?
Thinking reflects indirectly
Thinking is closely tied to perceptual cognition
Thinking reflects in a singular, isolated way
Thinking has a social nature
Which of the following is a characteristic of thinking?
Thinking reflects in a singular, isolated way
Thinking reflects external features
Thinking is linked with language
Thinking does not generalize
Which of the following is not a characteristic of imagination?
Imagination only arises in problematic situations
Imagination takes materials from perceptual cognition
Imagination reflects mainly in the form of language
Imagination has a generalizing nature
Which of the following is a characteristic of imagination?
Imagination always solves problems tightly, logically, and explicitly
Its main mode of reflection is in the form of symbols
Imagination is inseparable from language
Imagination reflects objects and phenomena directly
Teachers often use red pens to mark corrections. This applies which law of perception?
Law of meaningfulness
Law of selection
Law of overall perception
Law of objectness
“Đưa người ta không đưa qua sông / Sao có tiếng sóng ở trong lòng” These two verses illustrate that human perception follows which law?
Law of selection
Law of illusion
Law of overall perception
All three options are incorrect
When observing, we need to separate the object from the background to perceive it. This is the content of which law?
Law of objectness
Law of illusion
Law of overall perception
Law of selection
In perception, many internal factors participate (emotion, experience…), which law does this describe?
Law of selection
Law of overall perception
Law of illusion
Law of objectness
Perception that is incorrect or deviates from reality is the content of which law?
Law of illusion
Law of selection
Law of overall perception
Meaningfulness
The social nature of sensation is shown in:
The object reflected is a product of labor
Sensation can develop richly and strongly
Human sensation is influenced by language
All three of the above
One difference between thinking and imagination is:
Thinking reflects indirectly
Thinking has a generalizing nature
Thinking only arises in problematic situations
Thinking reflects mainly in the form of language
Sensation is:
A psychological process reflecting fully the external features of objects
A psychological process reflecting separate, external attributes of objects while they are directly acting on our senses
A psychological process reflecting some internal attributes of objects when we have direct contact
A psychological process reflecting external features of objects indirectly
Perception is:
A psychological process reflecting fully the external features of objects when they are directly acting on the senses
A psychological process reflecting separate, external attributes of objects
A psychological process reflecting some internal attributes of objects when we have direct contact
A psychological process reflecting external features of objects indirectly
Designing light blue clothing in summer and red clothing in winter applies which law of sensation?
Law of adaptation
Law of sensory threshold
Law of interaction among senses
Law of compensation
When first boarding a bus we feel an unpleasant smell, but later it seems normal. This shows sensation follows which law?
Law of sensory threshold
Law of adaptation
Law of interaction among senses
Sensory induction
The image of a “dragon” is built using which method?
Changing size, quantity
Combination
Association
Typification
