Psychology 2023 Previous Year Paper

Q1 _________ is an objective and standardised measure of an individuals   mental and /or behavioral characteristics.

1. Intelligence 
2. Case Study
3. Self- Report 
4. Psychology Test

ANS 4

Q.2 Rajshree is an excellent dancer with fine flexibility of body . According to the theory of multiple intelligence what skill is she high on 

1. Bodily kinesthetic skill
2. Interpersonal skill
3. Spatial Skill 
4. Interpersonal Skills

ANS 1

Q.3 In 1905, Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon , made the first successful attempt to formally measure intelligent . In 1912 designed the concept of intelligent Quotient (IQ)  

1. J.P. Guilford 
2. Alfred Binet
3. Willaim Stern 
4. Sternberg 

ANS 3

Q.4 Ayush has a own star-up, which has grown successful over a short period of time. This is because of his commitment,   persistence, patience, hard work, vigilance and goal director behavior. According to the India traditional view of intelligent Ayush has 

1. Cognitive capacity  
2. Social Competence 
3. Emotional Compare 
4. Entrepreneurial competence 

ANS 4

Q.5 The intelligent of identical twins reared in different environments correlate about 

1. 90
2. 72 
3. 60 
4. 50 

ANS 2

Q.6   Robert Sternberg proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence. 

1. He conceptualized three intelligence.
2. It was proposed in 1950. 
3. He defined intelligence as the ability to judge well, understand well and reason well. 
4. Componential intelligence also refer to  the traditional notion of intelligence. 
5. Contextual intelligence refer to practice intelligence , known as “Stret Smart’.

1. A, C and D only 
2. A, d and E only
3. B, D and E only
4. A, B and E only 

ANS 4

Q.7 Match List-I with List-II 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A-I, B-II, C-III, IV-I
2. A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
3. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
4. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
   

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Q.8 Rohan works in a multi-national company in the U.S. and in order to avoid racism, he makes everyone call him Ronnie. Identify the aspect of self he is trying to hide:

1. Familial Self 
2. Social identity 
3. Personal identity 
4. Moral self

ANS 2

Q.9 “I love to wear western clothes” is an example of which dimension of trait according to Allport’s  trait theory?

1. Cardinal traits
2. Central trati
3. Secondary trait
4. Tertiary trait 

ANS 3

Q.10 Match List-I with List –II

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

1. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
2. A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-II
3. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4. A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III

ANS 2

Q11. If you have a feeling that you must do everything perfectly and get stressed when it does not happen, then such beliefs are result of:

1. Frustration
2. Conflict
3. Internal Pressure
4. Social Pressure

ANS 3

Q12. According to the GAS (General Adaptation System), the stage one will experience the activation of the adrenal pituitary cortex system for fight or flight?

1. Resistance Stage
2. Exhaustion Stage
3. Alam Reaction Stage
4. Burnout

ANS 3

Q13. Pawan could not get aarnission in the college of his choice as he could not qualify the entrance exam. He is facing:

1. Conflicts
2. Frustration
3. Internal Pressure
4. Social Pressure

ANS 2

Q14. Arrange the following sentences as per the Cognitive Theory of Stress given by Lazarus:

1. The appraisals are very subjective and will depend on past experiences of the subject.
2. The perception of stress depends on the individual cognitive approach of events and resources available to deal with them.
3. Primary appraisal refers to the perception of a new or changing environment as positive, neutral or negative in its consequences.
4. When we perceive an event as stressful, we are likely to make a secondary appraisal.
5. Lazarus distinguished between two types of appraisals.
   

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. B, E, D, C, A
2. B, C, E, A, D
3. B, E, C, D, A
4. A, B, C, D, E

ANS 3

Q15. Identify the statements which reflect coping strategies given by Endler and Parker.

1. I am able to schedule my time better.
2. I fall sick immediately.
3. I express emotions openly and directly.
4. I accept situations that cannot be altered.
5. I hate myself.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, E, C only
2. A, B, C only
3. A, C, D only
4. A, E, B only

ANS 3

Q16. Ashana suffers from evaluation anxiety and develops Writer's Cramp before an examination. MRIs and X- rays reveal no physical cause. This is an example of

1. Somatic symptoms disorder
2. Illness anxiety disorder
3. Somatoform disorder
4. Conversion disorder

ANS 4

Q17. Identify which one of the following is an example of delusion of grandeur?

1. Sunita thinks that aliens are contacting her.
2. Mona thinks she is a world famous singer.
3. Raj thinks his food is poisoned.
4. Sunaina thinks that the news anchor is conveying message of aliens.

ANS 2

Q18. Ravi snatched the ice cream out of the hand of a child in junior school. This is an example of aggression.

1. Verbal
2. Physical
3. Hostile
4. Proactive

ANS 4

Q19. Hema was very particular about setting the objects like furniture, decorative pieces, utensils etc. in her house in a certain way. She would feel very disturbed and stressed if the objects were not placed in an orderly manner. She may be showing:

1. Separation Anxiety Disorder
2. Obsessive Compulsion Disorder
3. Somatic Symptom Disorder
4. Specific Phobias

ANS 2

Q20. According to the organic approach, abnormal behavior occurs when:

1. there is a conflict between emotion and reason
2. there is an imbalance in the four essential body fluids
3. body and brain is not working properly
4. evil resides in the individual

ANS 3

Q21. Identify the disorder in children where the behavior by parents and teachers as 'driven by a motor,

1. ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)
2. ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
3. ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
4. SLD (Specific Learning Disorder)

ANS 2

Q22. Rani feels excessive guilt for her performance in her career, which is making her unable to carry daily activities in a constructive manner. Psychiatrists have diagnosed her with depression. Select from the given list, which is NOT a factor predisposing towards depression.

1. Genetic make-up
2. Age
3. Gender
4. Alogia

ANS 4

Q23. International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) is prepared by the

1. American Psychiatric Association
2. World Health Organisation
3. American Psychological Association
4. National Council of Educational Research and Training

ANS 2

Q24. Whenever Jessica enters the airplane, she experiences palpitations, choking, nausea and discomfort despite having travelled multiple times by air. Jessica maybe experiencing the disorder called:

1. Schizophrenia
2. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
3. Panic Disorder
4. Dementia

ANS 3

Q25. Identify the features of psychological disorders:

1. Deviant
2. Dependent
3. Distress
4. Distraction
5. Danger

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B, C
2. A, C, E
3. B, C, D
4. D, A, B

ANS 2

Q26. Identify the features of psychological disorders:

1. Deviant
2. Dependent
3. Distress
4. Distraction
5. Danger

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B, C
2. A, C, E
3. B, C, D
4. D, A, B

ANS 3

Q27. Identify the steps followed by Therapist for Phobias using systematic desensitization.

1. The therapist prepares a hierarchy of anxiety provoking situation
2. The therapist relaxes the client to think about the least anxiety provoking.
3. The client is interviewed to elicit fear provoking situation
4. The client is asked to stop thinking of the fearful situation of they felt slightest tense.
5. The client is also to imagine more severe for provoking situation while maintaining relaxation, the client get systematically desensitized to fear Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B, C, D, E
2. C, A, B, D, E
3. C, D, E, A, B
4. B, E, C, D, A

ANS 2

Q28. When we meet people, we make impressions about their personal qualities. This is called

1. Social Cognition
2. Social Facilitation
3. Social Inhibition
4. Impression Formation

ANS 4

Q29. Extremeness of an attitude indicator

1. whether an attitude is positive or negative
2. how positive or negative an attitude is
3. how many attitudes there are within a broader attitude
4. the role of an attitude in the attitude system

ANS 2

Q30. Prejudices can be minimized by

1. Highlighting individual identity
2. following self-fulfilling prophecy
3. translating negative feeling into discrimination
4. having strong social identity

ANS 1

Q31. Women are bad drivers'. This is an example of

1. Prejudice
2. Stereotype
3. Discrimination
4. Social cognition

ANS 2

Q32. To change the attitude towards, changing tobacco in an individual who is abusing the substance, by using cognitive dissonance the following steps should be followed

1. Identifying the cognition to bs changed
2. Establishing the correct cognition that is understanding tobacco causes oral cancer.
3. Resulting in cognitive consistency
4. Adopting the correct attitude that is, I will not chew tobacco
5. Understanding that both the cognitions are dissonant or 'out of tune".

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B, C, D, E
2. A, B, D, E, C
3. A, B, E, D, C
4. A, B, C, E, D

ANS 3

Q33. Match the List – I with List- II

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1 A-II B-III C-I D-IV

2 A-III B-II C-I D-IV

3 A-I B-IV C-III D-II

4 A-II B-I C-III D-IV

ANS 1

Q34. A collection of people who have assembled for a special purpose is called

1. Ingroup
2. Outgroup
3. Audience
4. Team

ANS 3

Q35. Identify the stages of group formation

1. Joining
2. Forming
3. Conquering
4. Stonning
5. Norming

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B, C
2. B, D, E
3. C, D, A
4. A, D, E

ANS 2

Q36. Suggest a few ways to reduce social loafing:

1. providing group projects
2. increasing the pressure to work hard
3. working collective effort recognisable
4. increasing apparent importance or value of a cast
5. strengthening group cohesiveness Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
   
1. B, D, E only
2. A, B, C only
3. B, C, E only
4. D, E, C only

ANS 1

Q37. Match List-I with List-II

1. A-III B-I C-II D-IV

2. A-II B-III C-I D-IV

3. A-II B-III C-IV D-I

4. A-III B-II C-I D-IV

ANS 2

Q38. The act of aggression meant to obtain a certain goal or objects called:

1. Instrumental Aggression
2. Hostile Aggression
3. Proactive Aggression
4. Verbal Aggression

ANS 1

Q39. Poverty begets poverty, the poverty cycle explains why poverty tends to continue among the same section of society. Some of the factors that do not lead to poverty are:

1. Low income and lack of resources
2. low health and nutrition
3. Lack of education and skills
4. More job opportunities

ANS D

Q40. As the teacher was explaining her lesson, she could see Rana lost in his thoughts. When asked to explain. Rana was not able to tell the answer, even though he was present and usually gave answers. This is because Rana was only

1. Hearing
2. Listening
3. Paraphrasing
4. Reception

ANS 1

Question 41-45

Read the case below and answer the questions that follow:

A 22-year-old girl had been experiencing feelings of emptiness, lack of interest in all activities and sleep disturbances. She appears to be demanding, reckless, aggressive, and unable to delay gratification of needs. She has difficulty in managing anger and has emotional fluctuations. Her interpersonal relationships are also strained. She believes she was doing reasonably well 3 years back and the problem worsened after her boards. She started to indulge in self- harm acts, the situation worsened whenever she had conflicts with her family. Eventually, she was advised to seek professional help for an adequate diagnosis of her mental health.

Q41. Identify the self-report measure that is best suited in this case:

1. EPQ (Eyesenck Personality Questionnaire)
2. MMPI (Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory)
3. 16PF (Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire)
4. MPI (Mandsley's Personality Inventory

ANS 1

Question 41-45

Read the case below and answer the questions that follow:

A 22-year-old girl had been experiencing feelings of emptiness, lack of interest in all activities and sleep disturbances. She appears to be demanding, reckless, aggressive, and unable to delay gratification of needs. She has difficulty in managing anger and has emotional fluctuations. Her interpersonal relationships are also strained. She believes she was doing reasonably well 3 years back and the problem worsened after her boards. She started to indulge in self- harm acts, the situation worsened whenever she had conflicts with her family. Eventually, she was advised to seek professional help for an adequate diagnosis of her mental health.

Q42. She appears to be demanding, reckless, aggressive and unable to delay gratification of needs. According to Freud's theory, identify the structure of personality being talked about:

1. ld
2. Ego
3. Superego
4. Repression

ANS 1

Question 41-45

Read the case below and answer the questions that follow:

A 22-year-old girl had been experiencing feelings of emptiness, lack of interest in all activities and sleep disturbances. She appears to be demanding, reckless, aggressive, and unable to delay gratification of needs. She has difficulty in managing anger and has emotional fluctuations. Her interpersonal relationships are also strained. She believes she was doing reasonably well 3 years back and the problem worsened after her boards. She started to indulge in self- harm acts, the situation worsened whenever she had conflicts with her family. Eventually, she was advised to seek professional help for an adequate diagnosis of her mental health.

Q43. According to Eysenck's Theory, identify the personality trait she would be high on:

1. Neuroticisin
2. Introversion
3. Extraversion
4. Emotionally stable

ANS 1

Question 41-45

Read the case below and answer the questions that follow:

A 22-year-old girl had been experiencing feelings of emptiness, lack of interest in all activities and sleep disturbances. She appears to be demanding, reckless, aggressive, and unable to delay gratification of needs. She has difficulty in managing anger and has emotional fluctuations. Her interpersonal relationships are also strained. She believes she was doing reasonably well 3 years back and the problem worsened after her boards. She started to indulge in self- harm acts, the situation worsened whenever she had conflicts with her family. Eventually, she was advised to seek professional help for an adequate diagnosis of her mental health.

Q44. Identify the projective technique that will allow her to express her negative thoughts in the form of characters of a story for a more intensive understanding:

1. Parschach's Intolerant Test
2. TAT-(Thematic Apperception Test)
3. Rosenzweig Picture Frustevation Study
4. Sentence Completion Test

ANS 2

Question 41-45

Read the case below and answer the questions that follow:

A 22-year-old girl had been experiencing feelings of emptiness, lack of interest in all activities and sleep disturbances. She appears to be demanding, reckless, aggressive, and unable to delay gratification of needs. She has difficulty in managing anger and has emotional fluctuations. Her interpersonal relationships are also strained. She believes she was doing reasonably well 3 years back and the problem worsened after her boards. She started to indulge in self- harm acts, the situation worsened whenever she had conflicts with her family. Eventually, she was advised to seek professional help for an adequate diagnosis of her mental health.

Q45. Identify the techniques that do not qualify as behavioral analysis of personality:

1. Behavioural ratings
2. Draw-a-person test
3. Interview
4. MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
5. Nomination

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1. A, C only
2. D, E only
3. B, D only
4. B, C only

ANS 3

Question 46-50

Read the case study and answer the five questions that follow:

Nikita and Ritika are twins. Nikita is intelligent. Friendly and popular among her friends. Rikita is shy. withdrawn and feels inferior to her sister. As a child, she felt her parents neglected her and was deeply hurt when they made comparisons. As she grew, these feelings of rejection were reinforced when teachers made statements like. "Look how well Nikita is doing! Why can't you be like her?" Ritika's feelings of rejection only strengthened with time. With the passage of time, Ritika was convinced that she is not good enough and would always be a failure in life.

Q46. 'Identify the Therapy best suited for Ritika

1. Systematic Desensitisation
2. Token Economy
3. Beck's Cognitive Therapy
4. Psychodynamic therapy

ANS 3

Question 46-50

Read the case study and answer the five questions that follow:

Nikita and Ritika are twins. Nikita is intelligent. Friendly and popular among her friends. Rikita is shy. withdrawn and feels inferior to her sister. As a child, she felt her parents neglected her and was deeply hurt when they made comparisons. As she grew, these feelings of rejection were reinforced when teachers made statements like. "Look how well Nikita is doing! Why can't you be like her?" Ritika's feelings of rejection only strengthened with time. With the passage of time, Ritika was convinced that she is not good enough and would always be a failure in life.

 Q47. _______ is the cause of Ritika's problem.

1. Faulty learning
2. Dysfunctional cognitive structures
3. Lack of self- actualisation
4. Unresolved unconscious desires

ANS 2

Question 46-50

Read the case study and answer the five questions that follow:

Nikita and Ritika are twins. Nikita is intelligent. Friendly and popular among her friends. Rikita is shy. withdrawn and feels inferior to her sister. As a child, she felt her parents neglected her and was deeply hurt when they made comparisons. As she grew, these feelings of rejection were reinforced when teachers made statements like. "Look how well Nikita is doing! Why can't you be like her?" Ritika's feelings of rejection only strengthened with time. With the passage of time, Ritika was convinced that she is not good enough and would always be a failure in life.

Q48. Which of the following is NOT correct about the given psychotherapies.

1. In psychodynamic therapy the therapist is an interpreter
2. In existential therapy the therapist is a facilitator
3. In behaviour therapy the focus is on the past, the present is irrelevant
4. Psychodynamic therapy is the oldest therapy

ANS 3

Question 46-50

Read the case study and answer the five questions that follow:

Nikita and Ritika are twins. Nikita is intelligent. Friendly and popular among her friends. Rikita is shy. withdrawn and feels inferior to her sister. As a child, she felt her parents neglected her and was deeply hurt when they made comparisons. As she grew, these feelings of rejection were reinforced when teachers made statements like. "Look how well Nikita is doing! Why can't you be like her?" Ritika's feelings of rejection only strengthened with time. With the passage of time, Ritika was convinced that she is not good enough and would always be a failure in life.

Q49. Which of the following is True about the therapeutic relationship

1. the therapeutic relationships is life long
2. Strict confidentiality must be maintained
3. the therapist must be sympathetic to the client
4. It is not a relationship based on trust 

ANS 2

Question 46-50

Read the case study and answer the five questions that follow:

Nikita and Ritika are twins. Nikita is intelligent. Friendly and popular among her friends. Rikita is shy. withdrawn and feels inferior to her sister. As a child, she felt her parents neglected her and was deeply hurt when they made comparisons. As she grew, these feelings of rejection were reinforced when teachers made statements like. "Look how well Nikita is doing! Why can't you be like her?" Ritika's feelings of rejection only strengthened with time. With the passage of time, Ritika was convinced that she is not good enough and would always be a failure in life.

Q50. Match List I with List II

1. A-I B-IV C-III D-II

2. A-IV B-III C-II D-I

3. A-II B-IV C-I D-III

4. A-III B-I C-II D-IV

ANS 4