Psychology
Psychology MCQs with Answers and Explanations
Psychology MCQs with answers and detailed explanations for CSS, PMS, lecturer and GAT tests. Free online practice with the reasoning behind every answer. Take a scored quiz instead →
The psychological study of how physical, cognitive, and social changes occur across the human lifespan from conception to death is:
AComparative Psychology
BDevelopmental Psychology
CDifferential Psychology
DEducational Psychology
A step-by-step procedure or set of rules that guarantees a correct solution to a problem if followed correctly is an:
AHeuristic
BInsight
CAlgorithm
DMental Set
According to Robert Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence, intelligence is composed of three distinct sub-components:
AFluid, Crystallized, and Spatial Intelligence
BVerbal, Performance, and Full Scale Intelligence
CAnalytical, Creative, and Practical Intelligence
DLinguistic, Logical, and Musical Intelligence
The tendency to persist in using a problem-solving strategy that has worked in the past, even when it is no longer effective, is called a:
AFunctional Fixedness
BCognitive Dissonance
CConfirmation Bias
DMental Set
The cognitive bias that prevents people from seeing an object as having a function other than its conventional or customary use is:
AFunctional Fixedness
BMental Set
CAnchoring Effect
DFraming Effect
The tendency for a group’s average attitude or decision to become more extreme after group discussion than it was initially is called:
AGroupthink
BGroup Polarization
CSocial Facilitation
DDeindividuation
The loss of self-awareness and individual restraint that occurs in group situations that foster anonymity is termed:
ASocial Loafing
BGroupthink
CDeindividuation
DPluralistic Ignorance
A pre-judged, typically negative attitude toward members of a specific social group based solely on their group membership is defined as:
ADiscrimination
BStereotype
CEthnocentrism
DPrejudice
The cognitive framework or mental structure that helps individuals organize and interpret information about the world is called a:
ASchema
BPrototype
CHeuristic
DConstruct
In Piaget’s theory, modifying existing cognitive schemas or creating new ones to incorporate new information is called:
AAssimilation
BAccommodation
CEquilibration
DCentration