UGC NET Exam December 2013 Psychology Paper-3 Question Paper With Answer Key

PSYCHOLOGY

PAPER – III

Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.

Answer: (A)

2. Out of the following who has not explained intelligence in terms of Psychometric Approach ?

(A) Jensen

(B) Cattell

(C) Sternberg

(D) Thurstone

Answer: (C)

3. Select one of the levels and one of the stages given below as envisaged by Kohlberg in the theory of development of moral reasoning : 

1. Two levels 4. Five stages

2. Three levels 5. Six stages

3. Four levels 6. Eight stages

Codes :

(A) 1 and 5

(B) 2 and 4

(C) 2 and 6

(D) 3 and 6

Answer: (C)

4. Match List – I with List – II and  indicate your answer with the help ofthe given codes :

Answer: (B)

5. Which of the following is NOT a factor for poor academic performance among low socioeconomic status students ?

(A) Resistance culture

(B) Tracking

(C) Learned Helplessness

(D) Family size

Answer: (D)

6. What are the attitudes, goals and strategies of Failure Avoiding Students ?

(A) High fear of failure, very high or very low goals and self defeating strategies.

(B) Expectations of failure, very high or very low goals and self defeating strategies.

(C) High fear of failure, very high or very low goals and learned helplessness.

(D) High fear of failure, no goals, learned helplessness

Answer: (A)

7. Hunger is caused by

I. Expectation of food

II. Deficiency of energy

III. Homeostatic disturbance

IV. Deficiency of Oxygen

Codes :

(A) I

(B) I, II

(C) I, II, III

(D) I, II, III, IV

Answer: (C)

8. Arrange the developmental stages of language given by Vygotsky in correct sequence, given below :

1. Potential concept stage

2. Vague syncretic stage

3. Mature concept stage

4. Complex stage

Codes :

(A) 3, 1, 4, 2

(B) 2, 4, 1, 3

(C) 1, 3, 2, 4

(D) 4, 2, 3, 1

Answer: (B)

9. Read the below given statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Labour Unions act collectively to protect employee’s interests.

Reason (R) : Labour Unions have little influence on employee competence.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer: (C)

10. A person while intrinsically motivated does not seek ____ when performing, choose the correct code :

1. Enjoyment

2. Reward

3. Challenge

4. Avoidance of punishment

Codes :

(A) 1 and 2

(B) 2 and 3

(C) 2 and 4

(D) 3 and 4

Answer: (C)

11. I imagine becoming a renowned painter some day. I am engaging in

(A) Divergent Thinking

(B) Prospective Thinking

(C) Creative Thinking

(D) Autistic Thinking

Answer: (D)

12. The known stimulus elicits the ______ while the unknown stimulus elicits the _______.

(A) Operant Behaviour; respondent behaviour

(B) Operant Behaviour; Conditioned behaviour

(C) Conditioned Behaviour; Operant Behaviour

(D) Respondent Behaviour; Operant Behaviour

Answer: (D)

13. Match List – I and List – II and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Answer: (A)

14. Escape learning involves

(A) Instrumental conditioning with positive reinforcement

(B) Classical conditioning with positive reinforcement

(C) Classical conditioning with negative reinforcement

(D) Instrumental conditioning with negative reinforcement

Answer: (D)

15. Given below are two statements are labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the code given below :

Assertion (A) : Subliminal or below threshold perception exerts an observable influence on various response parameters is not a controversial question.

Reason (R) : Subliminally presented emotional stimuli activate cortical areas that mediate emotional experiences.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but  (R) is not the correctexplanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (D)

16. Which are the concepts mainly used by Sternberg in his theory of intelligence ?

1. Meta components

2. Performance components

3. Factor Analysis

4. Selective encoding

Codes :

(A) 1, 2 and 3

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 1, 2 and 4

(D) 1, 3 and 4

Answer: (C)

17. Given below are two statements, the first labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Total variance of test score is the sum of True Variance and Error Variance.

Reason (R) : True score and error score are independent of each other.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (A)

18. While evaluating the personnel selection programme, job performance was found to have a multiple correlation of 0.6 with the four predictors in the selection testbattery. This means that the four predictors explain 

(A) 36% variance in job performance

(B) 40% variance in job performance

(C) 60% variance in job performance

(D) 64% variance in job performance

Answer: (A)

19. The standardized regression coefficient (β) in bivariate regression indicates

(A) change in Y scores when X scores change by 1.

(B) change in Y scores when X scores change by one SD.

(C) Change in Z-scores of Y when X scores change by 1.

(D) Change in Z-scores of Y when X scores change by 1 SD.

Answer: (D)

20. In a single group pretest-post test design, which one of the following statistical method can be best employed to evaluate the mean differences of pre and post tests ?

(A) Mann-Whitney U test

(B) Randomized ANOVA

(C) Chi-Square

(D) Repeated measures ANOVA

Answer: (D)

21. Ideas interfering with the correct solution of a problem fade during this stage of creative thinking. This stage is

(A) Evaluation

(B) Revision

(C) Illumination

(D) Incubation

Answer: (D)

22. Which of the following strategies do not help improve memory ?

(A) Use of Mnemonics

(B) Minimize interference

(C) Mass learning

(D) Elaborative rehearsal

Answer: (C)

23. Explicit or Declarative memory consist of which of the following types of memories ?

1. Procedural memory

2. Episodic memory

3. Semantic memory

4. Autobiographical memory

Codes :

(A) 1 and 2

(B) 2 and 4

(C) 2, 3 and 4

(D) 1, 2 and 4

Answer: (C)

24. Given below are the two statements, the first labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : We can process information very quickly and perform complex tasks quickly and accurately.

Reason (R) : Brain processes information in a serial fashion.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (B)

25. Match List – I with List – II and indicate your answer with the help of given codes :

Answer: (A)

26. Which of the following parts of the brain are related to the recognition of the facial expression of emotions ?

Choose the correct code.

1. Hypothalamus

2. Prefrontal Cortex

3. Amygdala

4. Hippocampus

Codes :

(A) 1 and 2

(B) 2 and 3

(C) 2 and 4

(D) 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (B)

27. Which of the following is most appropriate for the assessment of Self-Actualization ?

(A) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

(B) Personal Orientation Inventory

(C) Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory

(D) Edwards Personal Preference Scale

Answer: (B)

28. There is a gradual acceleration of responses just before the provision of reinforcement in a fixed interval schedule. This acceleration is referred to as

(A) The Fixed – Interval Gradient

(B) The Fixed – Interval Variant

(C) The Fixed – Interval Caper

(D) The Fixed – Interval Scallop

Answer: (D)

29. When the individual attributes failure to the beliefs that everyone would fail in solving the problem and that the failure results from external causes, the state is described as

(A) Personal helplessness

(B) Hopelessness

(C) Learned optimism

(D) Universal helplessness

Answer: (D)

30. Read the following two statements Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Our facial expressions influence our emotional experience.

Reason (R) : We can exert complete voluntary control over our facial muscles during emotional expressions.

Codes : 

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (C)

31. The mental representation of what one wants to say comprises the

(A) Surface – phrase structure

(B) Central phrase structure

(C) Primary – Phrase structure

(D) Deep – Phrase structure

Answer: (D)

32. The law of Pragnanz or law of good figure refers to

(A) Tendency to read an ambiguous stimulus in accordance with an expectation.

(B) Viewing under suboptimal conditions such as an object is shaded or overlapped.

(C) The tendency to perceive the simplest and most stable figure of all possible perceptual alternatives.

(D) The ability to recognise and identify common objects.

Answer: (C)

33. What behaviour can be emitted is basically

(A) a psychotherapist determined phenomenon

(B) a reward determined capacity

(C) a species-typical capacity

(D) a procedure determined phenomenon

Answer: (C)

34. Memory can be distorted by being influenced by the individual’s expectations rather than what has actually happened. This is termed as

(A) Mood dependent memory

(B) Mood congruence effect

(C) Flash bulb memory

(D) Confirmation bias

Answer: (D)

35. Read each of the following two statements – Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Psychometric and cognitive (Information Processing) approaches to study intelligence are complimentary to each other.

Reason (R) : Psychometric theories deal with intelligence primarily in its structural aspects, cognitive theories deal with it
primarily in its processing aspects.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (A)

36. Which one of the following is a cause of permanent lesion ?

(A) Cryogenic Blockade

(B) Radio-Frequency

(C) Electrical stimulation

(D) Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Answer: (C)

37. Some Psychologist stated that the relationship between intelligence and creativity is not the same throughout the range of intelligence (I.Q). Which out of following is appropriate explanation of the relationship between these at different levels of
I.Q. 

(A) Below that critical level of I.Q. the relationship is negative and above that it is positive.

(B) Below that critical level of I.Q. it is zero and above that it is positive.

(C) Below that critical level of I.Q. the relationship is positive and above that it is negative.

(D) Below that critical level of I.Q. the relationship is positive and above that level zero relationship.

Answer: (D)

38. Which of the following pairs is not the negative symptom of Schizophrenia ?

(A) Emotional flattening and Asociality

(B) Anhedonia and Amotivation

(C) Poverty of speech and Apathy

(D) Hallucinations and Bizarre behaviour

Answer: (D)

39. Match the following items of List – I and List – II and indicate your answer with the help of given code :

Answer: (B)

40. Match List – I with List – II and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Answer: (B)

41. Read the below given statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R), indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Solution to any problem generally requires making reason from long-term goal to short-term goals, and so
on.

Reason (R) : Generating short-term goals are necessary for finding the most-suitable solution to the problem.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are false. 

(B) Statement (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Answer: (D)

42. Given below are two statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Indicate your answer using codes given below :

Assertion (A) : People tend to be more aggressive when they consume less alcohol.

Reason (R) : Alcohol impairs higher order cognitive functioning. 

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (B)

43. Match List – I with List – II and answer using the codes given below :

Answer: (C)

44. According to ________ theory, thoughts and feeling change because people are motivated to justify emotions that would otherwise seem hypothetical. This theory was proposed by _______.

(A) Dissonance; Festinger

(B) Cognitive dissonance; Festinger

(C) Cognitive dissonance; Baron 

(D) Normative social influence; Baron

Answer: (B)

45. The well known study on obedience to authority was done by

(A) Stanley Milgram

(B) Solomon Asch

(C) Latane and Darley

(D) Zimbardo

Answer: (A)

46. Somatic Nervous System does not activate one of the following :

(A) Glands

(B) Eyes

(C) Ears

(D) Skeletal Muscles

Answer: (A)

47. Three mountains task was used by Piaget to study ______ in children.

(A) Centration

(B) Conservation

(C) Egocentrism

(D) Reversibility

Answer: (C)

48. Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve describes _______.

(A) The smallest difference between two stimuli necessary to detect them as different.

(B) The relationship between the proportion of hits and false alarms for a constant stimulus intensity.

(C) Detection of a change in a stimulus is related to the magnitude of the stimulus.

(D) As the number of sensation units grows arithmetically the stimulus intensity increases geometrically.

Answer: (B)

49. As compared to primary school students, middle school students use more of

1. Rehearsal

2. Elaboration

3. Metacognition

Codes :

(A) 1 and 2

(B) 1 and 3

(C) 2 and 3

(D) 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (D)

50. Match List – I with List – II and indicate your answer with the help of code given below :

Answer: (D)

51. Match List – I and List – II and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Answer: (C)

52. Arrange the following treatment methodology in order in which they got known :

1. Client Centered Therapy

2. Psychoanalytic Therapy

3. Reciprocal Inhibition Technique

4. Reinforcement Contingency

Codes :

(A) 1, 2, 3, 4

(B) 2, 1, 3, 4

(C) 2, 1, 4, 3

(D) 3, 4, 1, 2

Answer: (C)

53. Arrange the following tests in decreasing order of their projective ability :

1. Rorschach’s Ink Blot Test

2. Thematic Apperception Test

3. Rosenzweig’s Picture Frustration Scale

4. Sack’s Sentence Completion Test

Codes :

(A) 1, 2, 3, 4

(B) 4, 3, 2, 1

(C) 3, 2, 1, 4

(D) 2, 3, 1, 4

Answer: (B)

54. Match the following items of List – I & List – II and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Answer: (C)

55. Given below are two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : The most important neurotransmitter implicated in schizophrenia is Dopamine.

Reason (R) : Clinical evidence suggests that drugs which reduce the level of dopamine in the brain also give rise to psychotic states like schizophrenia.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (C)

56. Given below are two statements, the first labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the given codes below :

Assertion (A) : Long term potentialism is related to neural mechanism of learning and memory.

Reason (R) : There is facilitation of synaptic transmission following high frequency electrical stimulation.

Codes : 

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. 

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (B)

57. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the odes given below :

Assertion (A) : Information processing is a mode of attention that concerns the nontemporal information processing demands of a task. 

Reason (R) : Subliminal perception is a form of perception in which stimuli are not detected or consciously perceived.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer: (B)

58. Match List – I with List – II and indicate your answer with the help of the given codes :

Answer: (A)

59. Vestibule Training utilizes  equipment which are closely ______to the actual ones, used _____.

(A) resemble; on the job

(B) similar; on the job

(C) resemble; off the job

(D) similar; off the job

Answer: (A)

60. The perspectives of motivation that identify specific needs

(A) Content Theories

(B) Process Theory of Motivation

(C) Equity Theory and OB Mode Theory

(D) Expectancy Theories

Answer: (A)

61. Out of the following statements find out the one which is wrong according to social-psychological research :

(A) Situational forces have tremendous power to shape human behaviour rather than personality or character.

(B) Both humans and animals respond more quickly when in the presence of other members of their species.

(C) A bystander in an emergency situation is likely to intervene or help in a group than if alone.

(D) The uninhibited aggressive behaviour sometimes shown by mobs and crowds may be the result of deindividuation.

Answer: (C)

62. Who among the following is credited with developing Logo therapy ?

(A) Fritz Perls

(B) Eric Burne

(C) Victor Frankel

(D) Rollo May

Answer: (C)

63. Match List – I with List – II and indicate your answer using codes given below :

Answer: (D)

64. Match List – I with List – II and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Answer: (A)

65. Select the pair of poles of dimensions for ‘permissive parenting style’ as proposed by Maccoby and Martin among the given below :

1. Demanding

2. Responsive

3. Unresponsive

4. Undemanding

Codes :

(A) 1 and 3

(B) 1 and 2

(C) 3 and 4

(D) 2 and 4

Answer: (D)

66. Match List – I and List – II and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Answer: (A)

67. What would be the degrees of freedom for error variance in a five group randomized ANOVA, with twelve subjects per group ?

(A) 54

(B) 55

(C) 59

(D) 60

Answer: (B)

68. ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Averages) model is especially useful in analysing the data obtained through

(A) Factorial designs

(B) Randomized block designs

(C) Time series designs

(D) Quasi-experimental designs with non-equivalent control groups

Answer: (C)

69. Which of the following is correct of the Rorschach Ink Blot Cards ?

(A) Five chromatic and five achromatic

(B) Two chromatic and eight achromatic

(C) Three chromatic and seven achromatic

(D) Three chromatic, five achromatic and two unstructured

Answer: (A)

70. Selection is the process of differentiating between ______ in order to identify those with a greater likelihood of _______ in a job.

(A) Applicants; good performance

(B) Candidates; good performance

(C) Applicants; success

(D) Candidates; success

Answer: (C)

Instructions for Questions 71 to 75 :

Read the following passage and answer the five questions that follow :

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was administered to a sample of 300 subjects. The intercorrelations among all the subscales were obtained. Unities were retained in the diagonal spaces of the correlation matrix and it was factor analysed. Cattell’s scree indicated two-factor solution. The two factors were subjected to varimax rotation. The two rotated factors were named as Verbal Intelligence and Performance Intelligence. The two factors, together, explained 62 percent of variance.

71. Which one of the following method of factor extraction is likely to have been employed in the present work ?

(A) Principal component analysis 

(B) Principal axes factoring

(C) Maximum likelihood

(D) Unweighted least squares

Answer: (A)

72. The inter-factor correlation between the two rotated factors obtained in this analysis will be

(A) Greater than zero

(B) Smaller than zero

(C) Zero

(D) Zero or greater than zero

Answer: (C)

73. Cattell’s scree is a

(A) plot displaying variables using the first two factors as axes.

(B) plot of the order of unrotated factors on X axis and eigenvalues on Y axis.

(C) plot of the order of unrotated factors on X axis and the communalities on the Y axis.

(D) eigenvalues on X axis and communalities on Y axis.

Answer: (B)

74. The factor-analytic model followed in the above analysis can be best labelled as

(A) Common factor model 

(B) Confirmatory factor analysis model

(C) Oblique factor analysis model

(D) Component model

Answer: (D)

75. In this research, the factor analysis has

(A) established the predictive validity of the WAIS.

(B) explored the dimensionality of the WAIS subscales.

(C) provided evidence in favour of Spearman’s two factor model.

(D) Demonstrated that all the WAIS subscales are highly internally consistent.

Answer: (B)

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