Multiple Choice Questions

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According to Psychologists through which of the following methods instincts can be transformed?

  • Correlation

  • Redirection

  • Merging

  • Renewal


B.

Redirection

Redirection is a method of transforming instincts . In this, the mode of manifesting the instinct is completely altered. For example, instead of allowing the combative instinct to waste its energy in unnecessary struggle and destruction, it can be constructively and successfully employed in extracting the oppressed and guarding the weak.


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According to Spearman (1904) the ability to reason and solve problems is known as

  • s factor

  • g factor

  • specific intelligence

  • cultural intelligence


Bandura stated that children acquire responses through modeling, which is also known as.

  • learning through practice

  • learning by insight

  • observational learning

  • learning by reward


Failing to retain or to be able to recall what has been learnt is called

  • recall

  • forgetting

  • sensation

  • memory


"The dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychokea-physical systems that determine the unique adjustment to his environment", is called

  • personality

  • adjustment

  • sensation

  • character


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Normal males have XY chromosomes whereas normal females have

  • XX chromosomes

  • XYY chromosomes

  • XXX chromosome

  • X chromosome


Formation of concepts is a _______ process.

  • difficult

  • irregular

  • periodical

  • cumulative


Which one of the following is not the cause of forgetting?

  • Mental conflict

  • Lack of repetition

  • Degree of learning

  • Ability of the teacher


'That point on the scale of scores below which one-half of the scores and above which one half of the scores lie' is called.

  • Mean

  • Mode

  • Median

  • Standard deviation


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Propounder of 'Two-factors theory' of transfer of learning was

  • Thorndike

  • Spearman

  • Judd

  • Guilford