List of top Psychology Questions on Psychology and Social Concerns

Among the following which is not indicative of a healthy personality according to humanistic theorists.
(A) Healthy person has a quest to know oneself deeply.
(B) Healthy person accept their true feelings, thoughts and behaviour without disguise 
(C) Healthy personality usually is rooted in childhood experience and are not trapped in ‘’here and now"
(D) Healthy personality usually dwell in the through anxious expectations and distorted defence
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Match List - I with List - II.

List - I		List - II
(A)	Hostile aggression	(I)	Dominating and bullying others without provocation
(B)	Verbal aggression	(II)	Hitting and or fighting
(C)	Physical aggression	(III)	Name-calling, swearing
(D)	Proactive aggression	(IV)	Directed at inflicting injury to others

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The goal of reducing prejudice can be accomplished by:
(A) Correcting stereotypes related to specific target group 
(B) Highlighting group identity 
(C) Tackling problem of a strong in-group bias 
(D) Increasing intergroup contact 
(E) Not highlighting individual identity 
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Meeku was pulled up by his teachers for missing classes to play cricket during school hours. To modify his behaviour, Meeku's class-teacher applauded him every time his homework was submitted or when he answered in class. Gradually, Meeku started enjoying his teacher's class and stopped missing it. Which behavioural technique did the class teacher use?

Arrange the following inter personal physical distance in the increasing sequence
A. Social distance
B. Intimate distance
C. Personal distance
D. Public distance
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These days many people have adopted fad diets as they find them to be favored by many people. This may be because of a psychological phenomenon in which people do something because everybody else is also doing it regardless of their own beliefs. This is the phenomenon of

Identify all the factors that reduce social loafing.
A. Making the efforts of each person identifiable
B. There is an improper coordination among members
C. Increasing the pressure to work hard
D. Decreasing the motivation of group members as their contribution will not be evaluated
E. Making people feel that their individual contribution is important
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Some children show marked difficulties in social interaction and communication, desire for routine and restricted interests. They show widespread impairments in social interaction and stereotypical patterns of behavior. Such children are suffering from.

Match List I with List II:

LIST-I		List-II
A.	Social Phobias	I.	Frequent anxiety attacks with feeling of intense terror
B.	Panic Disorder	II.	Fear of entering unfamiliar situations
C.	Agora Phobia	III.	Intense fear while dealing with others
D.	Specific Phobia	IV.	Irrational fear related to specific object

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Which of the following is true about hardiness?
A. A sense of personal commitment to what you are doing
B. A person having hardiness has control over his life which is a sense of pupose and direction
C. They don't see changes in life as normal and positive, rather as a threat
D. They have low level of stress but high level of illness
E. They are committed to work, family, hobbies and social life
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Identify the correct developmental sequence in the formation of a group, as given by Tuckman.
(A) Forming → Storming → Adjourning → Performing → Norming 
(B) Forming → Storming → Norming→ Performing → Adjourning 
(C) Performing → Storming → Norming→ Forming → Adjourning 
(D) Performing → Adjourning → Storming → Norming→ Forming 
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Arrange in sequence the four kinds of interpersonal physical distance from closest to distant/ farthest.
(A) Social distance
(B) Personal distance
(C) Intimate distance
(D) Public distance
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A collection of people gathered together to watch a comedy show is an example of :

According to _________approach, psychological problems are caused by inadequacies in theway an individual thinks, feels or perceives the world.

The concept of 'Collective Unconscious' was given by :