Name of the Organization : Haryana Public Service Commission
Name of the Exam : HCS Preliminary Examination
Subject : Psychology
Document Type : Previous Question Paper
Year : 2014
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HCS Preliminary Exam Psychology Question Paper :
Code : 16
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Marks: 100
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1 Which of the following in not a theory of forgetting?
(A) Disuse Theory
(B) Interference Theory
(C ) Preservation – Consolidation theory
(D) Reinforcement Theory
2. Big five dissensions theory of personality was developed by
(A) Freud
(B) Iung
(C) Allpotl
(D) McCrae & Costa
3. .. . …lobe is related with hearing.
(A) Occidental
(C) frontal
(C) Temporal
(D) Parietal
4. Who among the following developed the laws of learning?
(A) Hull
(B) Guthrie
(C) Thorndike
(D) None of the above
5. ….. developed social distance scale of attitude
(A) Bogardus
(B) Likert
(C) Edward
(D) Thurstone
6. The Principles of Psychology book has been written by
(A) Fechner
(B) Titchener
(C) Deley
(D) James
7. Largest structure of the neuron is
(A)Axon
(B) Dendrite
(D) Terminal button
(C) Soma
8. Master gland is ——- gland.
(A)Adrenal
(B) Pituitary
(C) Sweat
(D) Thyroid
9. According to Barllett remembering is a —– mental process
(A)Constructive
(B) Reproductive
(C) Passive
(D) Active
10. Which of the following is Retention method?
(A) Recall method
(B) Relearning method
(C) Recognition method
(D) All of the above
11. Author of the famous book ‘Remembering’ is
(A)Morgan, C. T
(B) Ebbinghaus, H.
(C) Bartlett, F.C.
(D) Sigmund Freud
12. Medulla” pons and mid brain are divisions of
(A) Spinal Cord
(B) Cerebellum
(C) Brainstern
(D) Hypothalamus
13. Major structures of the fore brain
(A) hypo1halamus
(B) Thalamus
(C) Cerebrunm
(D) All of the above
14. Reflexes are fur-ructions of
(A) Spinal Cord
(B) Brain
(C) Somatic Nervous System
(D) All of tl-re above
15. Wernicke’s area is especially related with
(A) Language
(B) Problem Solving
(C) Learning
(D) Perceptior
16. _gives shape to objects in our visual world.
(A) Ground
(B) Contour
C) Proximity
(D) Continuity
17. Stability of the environment as we perceive it. is called
(A) Illusion
(B) Pattenr recognition
(C) Constanct
(D) Hallucination
18. Which of the following is the law of perceptual organization
(A) Law of closure
(B) Steven’s law
(C) Fechner’s law.
(D) Thorndike’ s law
19. Peripheral theory of thinking focuses on_
(A)Movement of muscles of vocal organs
(B) Movement of muscles of the whole body
(C) Glandular section
(D) All of the above
20. Basic method of any psychological study is
(A)Survey
(B) Observation
(C) Field study
(D) Case study
21. According to learning is a selecting and connecting process.
(A)Thorndike
(B) Tolman
(C) Hull
(D) Pavlov
22. Who said. ‘thinking is sub vocal talking’?
(A)Chomsky
(B) Whorf
(C) Watson
(D) Saphir
23. “Emotion is an organic adjustment”. Who said it?
(A)John Dewey
(B) Haney Carr
(C) R.S. Woodworth
(D) J.R. Angell
24. _stated that we forget because we want to torget.
(A) Freud
(B) Bartlett
(C) Ebbinghaus
(D) Melton
25. developed the level of processing hypothesis of memory.
(A)Postmatr & Egan
(B) Craik & Lockhart
(C) Woodr,iorth & Schlosberg
(D) Melton & Invirt