Odisha CPET 2020 Question Paper Psychology

COMMON P. G. ENTRANCE TEST – 2020

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DEPT. OF HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVT. OF ODISHA
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Subject Code 39 Subject PSYCHOLOGY

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1. Advertisers know that a thirty-three percent discount sounds like a better deal than a
discount of one third. This best illustrates :
(A) Framing
(B) Belief bias
(C) Representativeness heuristics
(D) Confirmation bias

2. If two variables, X and Y, are correlated, what are the possible directions of
causality ?
(A) X could be causing Y
(B) Y could be causing X
(C) Some third factor could be causing both X and Y
(D) All of these

3. During an emotional state, which of the following would indicate physiological
arousal ?
(A) A sense of fear
(B) Perception of the event as dangerous
(C) Screaming
(D) An increase in blood pressure

4. As a door opens towards you, you perceive it as a rectangular door rather than going
through actual image changes on the retina from rectangular to trapezoid. This is an
example of :
(A) Perceptual closure
(B) Shape constancy
(C) Ambiguous stimuli
(D) Retinal disparity

5. ————— is defined as the process that accounts for an individual’s intensity,
direction, and persistence of efforts toward attaining a goal.
(A) Leadership
(B) Management
(C) Learning
(D) Motivation

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6. The fundamental difference between health psychology and clinical psychology is :
(A) Health psychology talks about disease and clinical psychology talks about
treatment
(B) Health psychology talks about physical illness and clinical psychology talks about
mental illness
(C) Health psychology talks about prevention, care and cure of any illness and
clinical psychology talks about cause, symptoms and treatment of mental
illness
(D) Health psychology is practiced by doctors and clinical psychology is practiced
by psychologists

7. Foolish conformity to peer pressure is most likely to be motivated by —————
needs.
(A) Safety (B) Belongingness
(C) Achievement (D) Self-Actualization

8. The fact that we can walk and chew gum at the same time illustrates that :
(A) Our attention depends on different motor systems
(B) We use selective attention
(C) We use divided attention
(D) We use sequential attention

9. Which situation describes the phenomenon of retroactive interference ?
(A) Smita can’t recall what day of the week it is
(B) Jita enters her old PIN with her new ATM card
(C) Diya refers to her old VCR as DVD player
(D) Farida often calls her new friend by her old friend’s name

10. Materials like food for the hungry, and water for the thirsty are called :
(A) Primary reinforcers (B) Secondary reinforcers
(C) Intermittent reinforcers (D) Fixed reinforcers

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11. What should you do if you find too many class intervals and too few frequencies ?
(A) Increase the frequency
(B) Take the average of the frequencies
(C) Increase the length of the class interval
(D) Smooth the curve

12. In which type of reinforcement schedule every appropriate response is reinforced ?
(A) Intermittent reinforcement schedule
(B) Fixed interval reinforcement schedule
(C) Continuous reinforcement schedule
(D) Fixed ratio reinforcement schedule

13. Recognizing is —————, whereas recalling is —————.
(A) Remembering it in its absence, Remembering something in its presence
(B) Remembering something in its presence, remembering it in its absence
(C) Reconstructing it in its presence, remembering it in its absence
(D) Remembering something in its presence, relearning it in its absence

14. Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature ?
(A) Humanism (B) Behaviorism
(C) Psychoanalysis (D) Structuralism

15. Which of the following is not a continuous variable ?
(A) Temperature of water
(B) Number of persons in a family
(C) Time taken to complete a task
(D) Weight of a person

16. The bodily depth cue generated by changes in the shape of the lens of the eye is
called :
(A) Retinal disparity (B) Aerial perspective
(C) Accommodation (D) Diversity

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17. Punishment is effective only when it weakens :

(A) Undesirable Response (B) Desirable Response

(C) Positive Response (D) All of these

18. Psychology’s answer to the question of, whether we are born or made, tends to be :

(A) We are born (B) We are made

(C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of these

19. The chief function of the control group in an experiment is that it :

(A) Allows mathematical relationships to be established

(B) Provides a point of reference against which the behavior of the experimental
group can be compared

(C) Balances the experiment to eliminate all dependent variables

(D) Controls all independent variables

20. Which of the following is not a way of defining psychopathology ?

(A) Deviation from the statistical norm

(B) Distress and impairment

(C) Measuring IQ

(D) Maladaptive behaviour

21. The study of similarities and differences in the behavior of different species is
called :

(A) Biology (B) Comparative Psychology

(C) Environmental Psychology (D) Differential Psychology

22. The percentage of persons scoring below a specific raw score is known as :

(A) Percentage

(B) Percentile

(C) Centile

(D) None of these

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23. The ‘somatogenic hypothesis’ advocated that causes of psychological disorders were

found in :

(A) Analysis of dreams

(B) Physical or biological impairments

(C) Traumatic life events

(D) Family dynamics

24. A complete sleep cycle lasts for about :

(A) Whole night (B) 60 minutes

(C) 90 minutes (D) 120 minutes

25. Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different

countries express anger ?

(A) Psychodynamic (B) Behavioral

(C) Socio-cultural (D) Biological

26. The acronym PET stands for :

(A) Positron emission tomography

(B) Positive emotion tracking

(C) Psychological evaluation technique

(D) Physiological emission technique

27. Which of the following is an example of covert behavior ?

(A) Blinking in response to a light

(B) Imitating a friend’s gesture

(C) Remembering a pleasant experience

(D) Rapid eye movements

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28. The Y-axis of an ogive represents :

(A) Mid-point of scores

(B) Cumulative frequencies of scores

(C) Cumulative percentage of frequencies of scores

(D) Cumulative class intervals

29. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include all of the following, except :

(A) Affective flattening (B) Loss of directedness

(C) Poverty of thought content (D) Hallucination

30. Geeta experiences guilt or discomfort because she realizes that she is not being
truthful with her friend Seema. She may be experiencing :

(A) Blaming the victim (B) Self-Serving bias

(C) Cognitive dissonance (D) Learned helplessness

31. Hypnosis can be described as a heightened state of :

(A) Suggestibility (B) Accountability

(C) Reactivity (D) Movability

32. What does the endocrine system do ?

(A) Responsible for digestion

(B) Regulate bone growth

(C) Release hormones into the bloodstream

(D) Maintains immune system

33. The fundamental attribution error occurs when a person underestimates or does not
consider ——————— attributes and focuses too much on ———————
attributes or personal factors.

(A) Situational; dispositional (B) Dispositional; situational

(C) Situational; unconscious (D) Unconscious; dispositional

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34. World Mental Health Day is observed on :
(A) 10th of February (B) 1st of October
(C) 10th of October (D) 10th of November

35. A broad mental capacity that influences performance on cognitive ability measures
is known as :
(A) Specific intelligence (B) Fluid intelligence
(C) General intelligence (D) Crystallized intelligence

36. The judge who is caught cheating on paying his income tax is likely to experience :
(A) Role diffusion (B) Attribution failure
(C) Role conflict (D) Attribution error

37. Educational psychology is concerned with :
(A) The learner (B) The learning process
(C) The learning situation (D) All of these

38. Health is best defined as :
(A) The absence of illness or pain
(B) A positive state of mental, social and physical well being
(C) A condition with no risk of physical illness
(D) A condition with no current physical or mental illness

39. Preeti takes a test in the army to see if she would make a good pilot. Such a test is :
(A) A standardized test (B) An aptitude test
(C) An intelligence test (D) An achievement test

40. Immediacy skills of a counselor refer to :
(A) The ability to see the incomplete picture that clients paint with their words
(B) The ability to feel with clients, as opposed to feeling for clients
(C) The ability to communicate and demonstrate genuine caring and concern for
clients
(D) The ability to deal with the here-and-now factors that operate within the helping
relationship

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41. Neha has constantly heard from others that she is aggressive. After a while she
starts acting the way people perceive her. This behavioral change is called :

(A) Social influence (B) Groupthink

(C) Group polarization (D) Self-fulfilling prophecy

42. Prof. Dash makes sure that she fairly represents the whole year’s course in the
General Psychology question for the final examination. She is trying to achieve :

(A) Test-retest reliability (B) Construct validity

(C) Content validity (D) Split-half reliability

43. According to Vygotsky, helping a child in the form of asking questions and giving
examples is known as :

(A) Scaffolding (B) Zone of proximal development

(C) Habituation (D) Verbal learning

44. We have a tendency to make normal use of certain household articles, but it is
difficult for us to put them to some novel use. Psychologists have named this
tendency as :

(A) Functional fixedness (B) Generalization

(C) Concept formation (D) Abstraction

45. Tendency of people to keep a fairly stable baseline level of happiness despite
fluctuations in circumstances is known as :

(A) Happiness set point (B) Resilience

(C) Positive thinking (D) Initiative

46. The process in which the clients displace unconscious feelings from the past onto
the therapist is referred to as :

(A) Transference (B) Blocking

(C) Counter transference (D) Dream analysis

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47. Who formulated the ‘Gaia hypothesis’ ?
(A) James Lovelock (B) Roger Barker
(C) James Gibson (D) John Dawson

48. Which statement does not represent a professional helping relationship?
(A) It is initially structured by the counselor or therapist but is open to cooperative
restructuring based upon the needs of the client.
(B) It is one that provides for the personal growth of all persons involved.
(C) It is one in which all persons involved perceive the existence of trust, caring,
concern, and commitment and act accordingly.
(D) It is simply one in which one person does something for the other.

49. The two dimensions of leadership which emerged from the Ohio State Leadership
Studies are ‘consideration’ and ‘—————’.
(A) Energization (B) Initiating structure
(C) Deliberation (D) Command

50. Which of the following theory emphasized the difference between the ability to solve
novel problems and learned knowledge ?
(A) Cattell’s fluid and crystallized intelligence
(B) Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System
(C) Gardner’s multiple intelligences
(D) Thurstone’s primary mental abilities

51. Which level in the Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model is characterised by
interactions between immediate environments ?
(A) Microsystem (B) Macrosystem
(C) Mesosystem (D) Exosystem

52. What are the major themes of existential therapy ?
(A) Empathy and genuineness
(B) Transference and counter-transference
(C) Restructuring of client’s irrational thoughts
(D) Client’s responsibility and freedom

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53. Mismatch between personality and organization may lead to :

(A) Role ambiguity

(B) Loss of interest by members in organization

(C) Low morale and low job satisfaction

(D) All of these

54. If we know that all dogs have tails, and thus poodles must have tails, we are
demonstrating ————— reasoning.

(A) Determined (B) Deductive

(C) Insight (D) Inductive

55. Which of the following is not true about flow experience ?

(A) A loss of reflective self-consciousness.

(B) A sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity.

(C) A distortion of temporal experience, one’s subjective experience of time is
altered.

(D) An apprehension for failure.

56. Social facilitation occurs :

(A) When people do less in a group setting

(B) When people keep their personal opinions to themselves for fear of upsetting
the group

(C) When the presence of other people watching improves one’s performance

(D) When the presence of other people watching hinders a person’s performance

57. A manager praises the employees to motivate them for even better performance.
This is an example of :

(A) Maslow’s need-hierarchy (B) ERG Theory

(C) Reinforcement theory (D) All of these

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58. A test in which the performance of the examinee is interpreted in comparison to the
performance of a reference group is known as :
(A) Norm-referenced test (B) Criterion-referenced test
(C) Behavioural tests (D) Culture-fair test

59. In Erikson’s crisis of —————, children develop a sense of competence.
(A) Trust versus mistrust
(B) Autonomy versus shame and doubt
(C) Initiative versus guilt
(D) Industry versus inferiority

60. Which form of reliability gives an estimate of temporal stability ?
(A) Split-half reliability (B) Alternate-forms reliability
(C) Interscorer reliability (D) Test-retest reliability

61. In which Piagetian stage the child becomes capable of understanding conservation ?
(A) Sensorimotor (B) Pre-operational
(C) Concrete operational (D) Formal operational

62. Which theory assumes that the manager’s role is to coerce and control
employees ?
(A) Theory X (B) Theory Y
(C) Theory Z (D) None of these

63. According to behaviorists, personality is :
(A) A collection of specific traits
(B) Driven by unconscious forces
(C) A set of learned responses
(D) Motivated by a striving for success

64. Body language refers to :
(A) Postures, gestures, and facial expressions
(B) The exchange of information through the use of words
(C) Speak from your point of view
(D) All of these

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65. Which personality disorder accounts for the following symptoms: self-centeredness,
exaggerated self-image, and require constant, excessive admiration ?
(A) Histrionic (B) Narcissistic
(C) Borderline (D) Schizotypal

66. Which of the following is not an attachment style that children develop with their
parent/ caregivers ?
(A) Secure (B) Synchronized
(C) Avoidant (D) Disorganized

67. What does EEG do ?
(A) Track anatomical structure
(B) Examines neurons to track electrical signals in the brain
(C) Detect lesions early
(D) Make images of the brain

68. The “Decay Theory” is also known as :
(A) Trace Theory (B) Interference Theory
(C) Inhibition Theory (D) Levels-of-processing Theory

69. Cephalocaudal development implies :
(A) The development of arms is followed by development of hands
(B) The legs grow earlier than the trunk
(C) The growth of legs takes place earlier than the hands
(D) The trunk grows faster than the legs

70. The fact that objects that are near to each other tend to be grouped together is known
as :
(A) Closure (B) Continuation
(C) Nearness (D) Similarity

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