Entrance Exam Sample Questions for MA Psychology from Tribhuvan University
1. The research method most closely associated with Wilhelm Wundt was:
a) Examination of archival records
b) Correlation
c) Introspection
d) The survey
2. All of the following areas of knowledge are part of the historical foundation of modern psychology except:
a) Sociology
b) Physiology
c) Medicine
d) Philosophy
3. Psychology is a science because psychological researchers:
a) Utilize statistical methods
b) Have advanced degrees in their specialty areas
c) Teach at colleges and universities
d) Use systematic, objective methods of observation
4. John Watson believed that psychology should be redefined as the scientific study of:
a) Unconscious motivations
b) The contents of the conscious mind
c) Observable behaviour
d) Perception and memory
5. The process of selecting, organizing and interpreting neural data is called:
a) Sensation
b) Transduction
c) Feature detection
d) Perception
6. A more recent perspective on the relationship between sensation and perception views processes as:
a) separate ones, with perception being a strictly psychological rather than physiological process
b) opposing ones, with excitatory neurons in one system inhibiting neurons in the other
c) continuous ones, with no clear, identifiable line dividing them
d) strictly physiological in nature, with experience, motivation, or expectations having no influence
7. Lift your left hand and pass it over your left shoulder, down your back, as far as it will go. Bend your right arm behind you so that it passes up your back as far as it will go. Try to touch the fingers of each hand. The…system regulates your ability to do this task:
a) vestibular system
b) kinesthetic
c) sensory
d) perceptual
8. Subject A looks at a drawing and sees a bird’s head. Subject B looks at the identical drawing and sees a rabbit’s head. This demonstrates that:
a) The same sensory input may be interpreted in very different ways
b) It is easy to create optical illusions
c) When sensory input, especially visual input, is unchanging, adaptation occurs
d) Our perceptions are mental copies of the physical features of a stimulus
9. Which one of the following offers the most accurate definition of learning?
a) A more or less lasting change in behaviour or knowledge
b) A complex behaviour that can be repeated
c) A rare or unusual behaviour that does not occur naturally
d) Knowledge that is passed on in a school setting
10. The key concept involved in classical conditioning is:
a) Habituation
b) Association
c) Consequences
d) Instincts
11. The smell of coffee brewing makes your mouth water. Here the odour is a(n):
a) US
b) UR
c) CS
d) CR
12. The key concept in understanding operant conditioning is:
a) associations between stimuli and involuntary responses
b) the relationship between behaviours and their consequences
c) observation of an important model
d) learning that is not observable
13. Any stimulus that helps us retrieve information from LTM is a(n):
a) Retrieval cue b) Context response c) Trace retriever d) Encoding cue
14. The techniques you learned in tennis keep getting in the way of your learning to play squash. This is an example of:
a) Retroactive repression b) Proactive interference
c) Retroactive interference d) Dissociation
15. Michael grew up in an alcoholic, abusive family. As an adult, he states he can remember almost nothing about his childhood. This illustrates the phenomenon known as:
a) Retroactive interference b) Retrograde amnesia
c) Repression d) Reconstructive memory
16. How long does an iconic image last?
a) Less than a second b) About three seconds
c) About twenty seconds d) About seven minutes
17. You receive a notice that you have won the state lottery prize of 1 million rupees. Your heart pounds, and begins to cry. You begin to feel very, very happy. This description of an emotional response is most in keeping with which theory of emotion?
a) Cannon-Bard b) Skinner
c) James-Lange d) Schachter and Singer
18. According to Schachter’s two-factor theory, when people are not certain about the source of their arousal, they will:
a) label their arousal with an emotion in keeping with the social situation they are in
b) assume that some unknown bodily chemical is creating the physiological arousal
c) attribute their arousal to a placebo
d) attribute their arousal to the activity of their facial muscles
19. Motivated state or condition accompanied by physiological arousal, expressive behaviour and intense feeling is called:
a) motivation b) emotion c) aggression d) all of the above
20. When progress towards a goal is blocked and underlying tension formed is called:
a) Frustration b) Critical Period c) Goal d) Restriction
21. Motivated behaviour is directed towards:
a) Situation b) Object c) Goal d) Group
22. The first stage of motivational cycle is:
a) Drive state b) Instrumental behavior c) Goal d) Frustration
23. Which of the following is secondary motive:
a) Hunger b) sex c) rest and sleep d) desire to be competent
24. According to Maslow, the second highest motive people can experience is:
a) Biological b) intellectual c) self-esteem d) self-actualization
25. Gardner’s logical-mathematical intelligence is most similar to Sternberg’s concept of…….. Intelligence:
a) Practical b) creative c) information processing d) triarchic
26. Which one of the following would probably be very high in spatial intelligence?
a) An astronaut b) A taxi driver c) A trucker d) A judge
27. Underlying the ongoing debate about racial, ethnic and gender differences in intelligence is the issue of:
a) nature vs. nurture b) rationality vs. irrationality
c) Mind and body interaction d) the human capacity for change
28. Geeta is nine years old. She performs similarly to an eleven year old on the Standford Binet. Her IQ is:
a) 82 b) 110 c) 122 d) 99
29. The concept of collective unconsciousness is associated to:
a) Carl Jung b) Alfred Adler c) Erik Erikson d) Albert Bandura
30. How far from campus is your home? According to Freud, the answer to this question lies in your:
a) conscious b) preconscious c) unconscious d) superego
31. Which one of the following items best defines personality?
a) one’s friendliness and outgoingness
b) one’s distinct pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving
c) one’s moods and ways of interacting with others
d) one’s level of likeability and acceptance by others
32. According to Carl Rogers, self-actualization is not possible without:
a) unconditional positive regard
b) high functioning on the hierarchy of needs
c) complete acceptance by parents and significant others
d) good models during childhood and adolescence
33. A key question that underlies the study of problem solving and judgement is:
a) Are human beings rational or irrational?
b) How do the mind and body interact?
c) What is more important, nature or nurture?
d) Can situations overpower the individual?
34. All of the following describe the steps involved in problem solving except:
a) generating several possible solutions b) consulting semantic networks
c) representing the problem mentally d) evaluating the solutions
35. To calculate the square root of 864, one uses a(n):
a) Heuristic b) Analogy c) Prototype d) Algorithm
36. Chess players depend on………….. to win games:
a) confirmation bias b) heuristics c) algorithms d) analogies
37. The components of attitude are:
a) affect, behavior, cognition b) assertion, belief, compromise
c) feeling, values, goals d) feeling, decision making, sensation
38. Males cannot look after children so Mohan also cannot look after his child is an example of:
a) halo effect b) distinctiveness c) consensus d) stereotyping
39. ‘Ok if you cannot give me Rs.1000, at least give me Rs. 400.’ is a technique for gaining compliance based on:
a) ingratiation b) low ball technique c) high ball technique d) door-in-the-face
40. An unfaithful husband suspects his wife of infidelity is an example of:
a) halo effect b) stereotyping c) primacy effect d) projection
41. Information acquired by experience or experimentation is called as:
a) scientific b) empirical c) facts d) scientific evidences
42. The method that consists of collection of data through observation and documentation, formulation and testing of hypothesis is called:
a) empirical method b) scientific method c) scientific information d) practical knowledge
43. Testing hypothesis is a………..:
a) Inferential statistics b) Descriptive statistics c) Data preparation d) Data analysis
44. Which of the following is non-probability sampling?
a) Snowball b) Random c) Cluster d) Stratified
45. Uniting Various Qualitative methods with Quantitative methods can be called as……..:
a) Coalesce b) Triangulation c) Bipartite d) Impassive
46. What is the purpose of doing research?
a) To identify problem b) To find the solution c) both a and b d) None of these
47. A systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena:
a) Basic research b) pure research c) applied research d) both a and b
48. One of the limitations of experimental method is:
a) it does not establish cause and effect relationship b) artificiality
c) replicability d) Control over extraneous variables
49. Independent variables are also called:
a) intervening variable b) moderating variable
c) extraneous variable d) causal variable
50. Usually confidence intervals are set at what figure?
a) 5% b) 100% c) 95% d) 55%
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