Psychology
Psychology MCQs with Answers and Explanations
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Mary Ainsworth developed which experimental procedure to assess infant-caregiver attachment styles?
ABobo Doll Experiment
BVisual Cliff Experiment
CStrange Situation Procedure
DStill Face Paradigm
Which secure attachment style is demonstrated when an infant uses the mother as a safe base, shows distress upon separation, and is easily comforted upon reunion?
AAnxious-Ambivalent Attachment
BAnxious-Avoidant Attachment
CDisorganized Attachment
DSecure Attachment
The Visual Cliff experiment developed by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk was designed to measure infants’ perception of:
ADepth Perception
BColor Vision
CObject Permanence
DSize Constancy
Raymond Cattell utilized factor analysis to reduce personality traits into how many core source traits in his 16PF Questionnaire?
A5 Traits
B16 Traits
C3 Traits
D8 Traits
Hans Eysenck’s original trait model of personality proposed three major dimensions, often referred to as the PEN model:
AOpenness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion
BPhysiological, Emotional, and Neurotic
CPsychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroticism
DPassivity, Ego, and Normalcy
The dominant modern paradigm of personality structure, the Five-Factor Model (‘Big Five’), includes which five dimensions (OCEAN)?
AOptimism, Creativity, Energy, Ambition, and Nervousness
BOrganization, Competence, Extraversion, Altruism, and Neuroticism
COriginality, Control, Emotion, Adaptability, and Normalcy
DOpenness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
In psychoanalytic theory, an individual returning to an earlier stage of developmental behavior during times of severe stress is using the defense mechanism of:
ARegression
BRepression
CProjection
DDisplacement
Attributing one’s own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses onto another person is the defense mechanism known as:
ADisplacement
BProjection
CSublimation
DRationalization
Rechanneling unacceptable instinctual drives into socially acceptable, productive, or creative activities is known as:
AReaction Formation
BDisplacement
CSublimation
DIntellectualization
Diverting emotional energy or aggressive impulses from the original target onto a less threatening substitute target is called:
AProjection
BSublimation
CRegression
DDisplacement