Psychology
Psychology MCQs with Answers and Explanations
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According to Jean Piaget, ‘Object Permanence’—the realization that objects continue to exist even when out of sight—is acquired in the:
APreoperational Stage
BSensorimotor Stage
CConcrete Operational Stage
DFormal Operational Stage
Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development outlines how many distinct stages of life-span development?
A5 Stages
B6 Stages
C8 Stages
D10 Stages
According to Erikson, the primary psychosocial crisis faced during adolescence is:
ATrust vs. Mistrust
BIntimacy vs. Isolation
CIndustry vs. Inferiority
DIdentity vs. Role Confusion
Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development categorizes moral reasoning into three broad levels, which are:
APre-conventional, Conventional, and Post-conventional
BSensorimotor, Operational, and Abstract
COral, Anal, and Genital
DMicro, Meso, and Macro
The concept of the ‘Zone of Proximal Development’ (ZPD) was introduced by which developmental psychologist?
AJean Piaget
BLev Vygotsky
CAlbert Bandura
DJerome Bruner
Albert Bandura’s famous ‘Bobo Doll’ experiment demonstrated the power of:
AClassical Conditioning
BOperant Reinforcement
CObservational Learning (Social Learning Theory)
DInsight Learning
The capacity of human Short-Term Memory (STM) was classically estimated by George Miller to be:
A3 ± 1 items
B12 ± 2 items
CUnlimited items
D7 ± 2 items ('The Magical Number Seven')
Hermann Ebbinghaus is famous in cognitive psychology for discovering the:
AForgetting Curve and the Spacing Effect
BClassical Conditioning principle
CHierarchy of Needs
DCognitive Dissonance model
The process of grouping individual pieces of information into larger, meaningful units to increase short-term memory capacity is called:
ARehearsal
BChunking
CEncoding
DRetrieval
Insight Learning, where a solution to a problem appears suddenly (‘Aha! moment’), was demonstrated in chimpanzees by:
AEdward Thorndike
BB.F. Skinner
CWolfgang Köhler
DIvan Pavlov