CDPO EXAM OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS/ KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY

 CDPO EXAM OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS/ KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY

CDPO EXAM OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS/ KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY

1.     ‘Legal Psychology’ is a branch of

2.     William James published his Principles of Psychology in

3.     Who was the founder of “Behaviourism School of Psychology”?

4.     The first psychology department was established at Calcutta University in the year

5.     Who was the first man to define Psychology?

6.     Who promoted the formulation of ‘Elementalism’?

7.     According to whom “Clinical Psychology is now the largest field of specialization”?

8.     When did Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzing in Germany establish the first Psychological Laboratory?

9.     Psychology which deals with extrasensory perceptions, cases of rebirth, telepathy and allied problems is called

10.  The technique to study the subject’s brain wave, heart rate and blood pressure is called

 

ANSWERS

1.     Applied Psychology                                 6. Aristotle 2.     1890                                                          7. Morgan and King 3.     John B Watson                                          8. 1879 4.     1916                                                          9. Para -Psychology 5.     William Mc Doughall                             10. Biofeedback

 

CDPO EXAM OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS/ KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY

11.  Who became famous for the outstanding contributions to the Psychology of Remembering and Forgetting?

12.  “Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and of their conditions. The phenomena are such things as we call feelings, desires, cognitions, reasonings, decisions and the like”. The definition was given by

13.  School of Psychology established by Sigmund Freud

14.  The field of psychology focuses on the interaction between the physical world and human behaviour

15.  ‘Geo-Psychology’ is the branch of

16.  Fundamentals of Physiological Psychology was published by Wundt in the year

17.  Who propounded the ‘Structural School of Psychology’?

18.  Nerve Cells in the human brain are

19.  In India Modern Western Psychology was first introduced in

20.  The first man to define psychology “as the science of behaviour” was

 

ANSWERS

11. Ebbinghaus                                              16. 1874 12. William James                                         17. Edward Titchener 13. Psychoanalysis                                        18. Twelve billion 14. Environmental Psychology                     19. Calcutta University 15. Pure Psychology                                      20. J.B Watson

 

CDPO EXAM OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS/ KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY

21.  According to Carl Rogers the relationship between what we feel we are is our ‘self’ and what we feel we should be is our………..

22.  Approaches of psychology states that human mental functions have evolved over millions or years

23.  The Indian Psychoanalytic Society was founded by

24.  Who described electrical signals were conducted by nerves within the body?

25.  Evolutionary psychology is mainly influenced by

26.  Evolutionary psychology suggests that our behaviour is influenced by

27.  The applied side of psychology is often used to solve

28.  Name of the study of nervous system and its function is

29.  Name of the subfield of psychology in which psychological principles are applied to practical problems of work and commerce is

30.  Formal ideas about behaviour and mind in Western culture began with the classical

 

ANSWERS

21. Ideal self                                                26. Inherited tendencies 22. Evolutionary Approach                          27. Real Life problems 23. Girindra Shekhar Bose                           28. Neurobiology 24. Johannes Muller                                     29. Industrial psychology 25. Functionalism                                         30. Greek Philosophers

 

CDPO EXAM OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS/ KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY

 

31.  Who is the author of the book The Principles of Psychology?

32.  Psychology should study “what mind and behaviour do”: it is the view of

33.  Which psychologist has recognized the importance of experimental procedures in physiology and physics?

34.  The other name of psychoanalytic perspective is

35.  A key psychodynamic idea is that when the impulses are unacceptable, or when they make as anxious, we use

36.  A developmental psychologist is concerned with human growth and factors that shape human behaviour

37.  “Psychology is the science of mental life, both its phenomena and of their conditions….. The phenomena are such things as we call feelings, desires, cognitions, reasoning, decisions and the like”, was said by

38.  The term ESP indicates

39.  Who had helped deal a deathblow to the old Psychology through the introduction of new methods that revealed Psychology as something more than a Philosophy

40.  The European ethologists Konard Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen use the term “instinct” in describing

ANSWERS

31. William James                                                   36. From birth to old age 32. Functionalist psychologists                               37. William James 33. Wilhelm Wundt                                                 38. Extrasensory Perception 34. Psychodynamic                                                 39. Watson 35. Defense Mechanisms                                        40. Human Behaviour

 

CDPO EXAM OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS/ KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY

 

41.  “Functionalism” a School of Psychology began in

42.  “Using informal research techniques” is one of the major limitations of

43.  Who is known as the originator of Psychology as an experimental science?

44.  The first experimental laboratory was established in ‘Leipzig’ in

45.  Psychologists who are involved in vocational and other forms of counseling are

46.  “Introspection” was the main method used by

47.  The German word ‘Gestalt’ means

48.  ‘The mind should be thought of as resulting from the whole pattern of sensory activity and the relationships and organization within this pattern is maintained by

49.  A perspective that focuses on the role of feelings and impulses which are thought to be unconscious is

50.  Finding the causes of behaviour from number of observations is called

 

ANSWERS

41. USA                                                                     46. Structuralism 42. Structuralism                                                       47. Form of Configuration 43. Wundt                                                                  48. Gestalt Psychologists 44. 1879                                                                     49. Psychoanalytic 45. Educational Psychologists                                   50. Inductive reasoning