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 →
Which behavioral therapy technique involves exposing a patient directly and continuously to an intense anxiety-provoking stimulus until fear diminishes?
ASystematic Desensitization
BFlooding
CAversion Therapy
DModeling
The therapeutic technique in psychoanalysis where the patient speaks freely about whatever thoughts, feelings, or memories enter their mind is called:
ADream Interpretation
BTransference Analysis
CFree Association
DCatharsis
In psychoanalysis, when a patient projects feelings, expectations, and attitudes held toward significant figures from their past onto the therapist, it is known as:
ACountertransference
BResistance
CSublimation
DTransference
When a psychotherapist unconsciously projects their own emotional issues or unresolved conflicts onto the client, it is termed:
ACountertransference
BTransference
CResistance
DInsight
A behavior therapy technique that pairs an undesirable behavior (such as alcohol consumption) with an unpleasant stimulus (such as nausea-inducing drugs) is called:
ASystematic Desensitization
BAversive Conditioning (Aversion Therapy)
COperant Extinction
DCounterconditioning
The psychological state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by long-term involvement in emotionally demanding workplace situations is called:
AWorkplace Stress
BCompassion Fatigue
CJob Burnout
DRole Ambiguity
Gestalt Therapy, an experiential and humanistic form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and present-moment awareness, was founded by:
ACarl Rogers
BRollo May
CViktor Frankl
DFritz Perls
The cognitive bias in which an individual attributes their own successes to internal factors while blaming their failures on external, situational factors is the:
ASelf-Serving Bias
BFundamental Attribution Error
CActor-Observer Bias
DConfirmation Bias
The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses is known as:
AHindsight Bias
BConfirmation Bias
CSelf-Serving Bias
DAvailability Heuristic
The tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were before the events took place is called:
AConfirmation Bias
BRepresentativeness Heuristic
CHindsight Bias ('I-knew-it-all-along' effect)
DAnchoring Bias