UGC NET Psychology Paper 2 – December 2023 (14 Dec, Shift 1) – Question Paper with Answer Key

According to Piaget's theory a cognitive process in which a schema is modified as a response to feedback from environment.

Which of the following is a disease not related to Cardiovascular system ?

Zeigarnik effect explains :

Autoclitic behaviour refers to :

Statutory rape refers to :

Name the psychologist who has proposed and suggested that the declarative memory can either be Episodic or Semantic.

The increased accessibility or retrievability of information stored in memory produced by the prior presentation of relevant cues is called :

One psychologist while collecting data from gamblers, first identified one gambler and from him traced out three more; and through these three further more. He continued like this, This is an example of

Parameter : population :: ______ : sample

Which of the following is considered to be error component in ANOVA ?

Which of the following software is used extensively for analysis of qualitative data by researchers in psychology ?

To calculate the correlation between a genuinely dichotomus variable and a continuous variable we have to use

Attitude which is conscious and easy to report is called

A theory which advocates prejudice stems, at least in part, from economic competition between social groups is

If members in a group are performing additive tasks, then ;

The psychological state characterized by reduced self-awareness brought on by external conditions is known as:

Although she likes to wear gold ear-ring very much, Tanmaya removed the same when she joined a school where gold ornaments are not allowed. This social influence is example of

The two specific objectives of Watson's Behaviourism are 'NOT' :

The ability of brain to adopt to the environment and to replace function following damage is known as :

Temporal Lobe epilepsy results in :

Socrates questioning isa :

Studies on weight loss programs in a follow up study revealed that ;

Homeostatic temperature in the body is regulated by :

Which of the following is not true of structuralism ?

Which of the following is not a technological system designed to aid, enhance or inspire learning :

According to Watson, Conscious mentalism refer to :

A decrease in sensitivity to leptin is found to be a factor contributing to :

On the basis of which criterion the tests are classified into 'Verbal Tests' and 'Non-verbal Test'.

The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test (Bender 1938) has a

Which one of the following is not intrinsic factor affecting reliability ?

Which scale of measurement has absolute zero ?

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) published in 1955 has :

Sigmund Freud was born on :

Which one of the following is NOT among the twenty needs listed by Murray, 1938 ?

'Foreign Hull' is the concept coined by :

Which of the following is 'NOT' source of work related stress ?

The concept of 'collective unconscious' is one of the most powerful, original and controversial features fo :

Brainstorming is technique in Gerard Egan's problem management approach to helping. Which of the statements given below is NOT a characteristics feature of brainstorming.

The number of cases of a disease, injury or disability at a given point of time which can be expressed as the number of new cases or the number of existing cases is called :

'Miracle Question' is a technique used in :

Which of the following comes under divergent thinking ?

(A) Fluency

(B) Flexibility

(C) Elaboration

(D) Preparation

(E) Verification

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Which are the major components of Emotional Intelligence by Goleman (1995) :

(A) Recognizing the purpose in life

(B) Knowing our own emotions

(C) Recognizing the emotions of others

(D) Handling relationship

(E) Understanding meaning of life

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The components of 'Type A' Pattern of personality encompasses :

(A) Happy-go-Lucky

(B) Prosocial

(C) Emotion-Focused

(D) Competitive Striving for Achievement

(E) Sense of Time urgency

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Scientifically sound test must possess which of the following :

(A) Objectively

(B) Norms

(C) Time Limit

(D) Reliability

(E) Validity

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Study of Values prepared by all port, Vernon and lindzey has some basic areas which of the following areas are included in it ?

(A) Moral

(B) Aesthetic

(C) Cognitive

(D) Religions

(E) Economic

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Factors covered by the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) are :

(A) Verbal Aptitude

(B) Form Perception

(C) Mechanical Reasoning

(D) Motor Coordination

(E) Clerical Perception

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What is true about retrospective studies ?

(A) Data are often collected with the help of narrative methods

(B) It is also knows as naturalistic inquiry

(C) Collected data can be analysed through

(D) It is same as quasi-experiment

(E) Biographical research is a good example of retrospective study

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Which is correct explanation about Rene Descartes :

(A) The mind controls the body both in animals and human beings

(B) He postulated that the mind the body were governed by different laws

(C) The mind was free and possessed only by humans

(D) The duality of mind and body

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Which best explains about 'Paradigm' ?

(A) Itis the study of intact, meaningful mental events

(B) A viewpoint regarding physical reality as we perceive

(C) Apoint of view shared by a substantial number of scientists that provides a general framework for empirical research

(D) It is usually more than just one theory and corresponds more closely to what is called a school of thought

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Egan's developmental model of counselling mentions the following distinct steps in its three stages :

(A) Possibilities, Commitment

(B) Best fit, Leverage

(C) Blindspot, Focusing

(D) Leverage, Confronting

(E) Agenda, Commitment

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Which of the following are true of method of Appreciative Inquiry ?

(A) Inquiry begins with appreciation

(B) It is not collaborative

(C) It is not proactive

(D) Inquiry is applicable

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According to psychophysical school which of the following statements are true ?

(A) Weber's ratio increases as the stimulus intensity increases

(B) DL increases proportionately to the changes in the stimulus intensily

(C) Limens determines the perception of sensory stimulus

(D) Weber's ratio and techner's law are contradictory in nature

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What is true about multiple regression ?

(A) There can be more than two criterion

(B) There can be more than two predictors

(C) It indicates linear relation between one predicator and one criterion

(D) The equation for regression line contains partial regression coefficients

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Which of the following can faster prejudice ?

(A) Threats to self-esteem

(B) Competition for resources

(C) Social categorization

(D) Social recategorization

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Resistance to persuasion may be increased :

(A) Reactance

(B) Emotional appeal

(C) Fore warning

(D) Selective avoidance

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Which of the following are the influencing skills of counselling :

(A) Self disclosure

(B) Information giving

(C) Confrontation

(D) Smart-goals

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Which of the following statements are true for a panic disorder :

(A) Recurrent bouts of intense and extreme fear

(B) Sensation of shortness of breath or smothering

(C) Persistent worry or concern about having additional attacks

(D) An episode of panic attack followed by the use of a drug or medication

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Which of the following are the identity statuses of James Marcia's theory :

(A) Identity achievement

(B) Identity fore closure

(C) Identity disffusion

(D) Identity crisis

(E) Identity moratorium

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Which of the following are the stages in the transtheoretical model of behavour change :

(A) Maintenance

(B) Intention

(C) Contemplation

(D) Action

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Which of the following are not the components of yama as per Astanga Yoga :

(A) Ahimsa

(B) Shoucha

(C) Asteya

(D) Tapas

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How type IJ error can be reduced while testing hypothesis ?

(A) Decreasing the chosen level of significance

(B) Increasing the chosen level of significance

(C) Decreasing the sample size

(D) Increasing the sample size

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Which of the following statements is correct about 'assimilation' :

(A) A kind of matching between the cognitive structures and the physical environment

(B) Learning that one event leads to another

(C) It can be roughly equated with recognition or knowing

(D) Studying a phenomenon as 'it occurs naturally in the environment'

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Which of the following statements is correct about Gestalt psychology ?

(A) Gestalt approach is dementistic

(B) Gestalt psychology has sometimes been called phenomenology

(C) Gestalt psychology can be thought of as an attempts to apply field theory from physics

(D) Gestalt psychologists believed that whatever happens to a person influences everything else about the person

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The theoretical positions about personality whose development have been heavily dependent on factor analysis are :

(A) RB. Cattell

(B) Spearman

(C) Hy. Eysenck

(D) J.P. Guilford

(E) Howard Gardner

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Frend believed that at times Ego is unable to control impulses of ID so uses various defense mechanism such as :

(A) Fixation

(B) Repression

(C) Rationalization

(D) Displacement

(E) Projection

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Match List-I with List-II.

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Match List-I with List-II with reference to the psychosocial theory of development (Erikson):

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Match the substages of Kohlberg's Moral Development Theory:

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Csikszentmihalyi (1996) observed that the creative process normally takes five steps. Arrange those steps in order ;

(A) Preparation

(B) Evaluation

(C) Incubation

(D) Elaboration

(E) Insight

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Arrange the following sentences in sequential order according to classical conditioning :

(A) Acstimulus such as food is presented to an organism which is called unconditioned stimulus (Us)

(B) The neutral stimulus light alone is provided which makes the organism to salivate

(C) A neutral stimulus such as light is presented to the organism just prior to the presentation of US

(D) Another neutral stimulus (tone) is provided prior to light

(E) The neutral stimulus (tone) above is provided which makes the organism to salivate

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Put the following milestones of psychology in ascending chronological order :

(A) Intelligence test developed by Binet and Simon in France

(B) The first psychology laboratory in Leipzig by Wundt

(C) First psychology course in United States by James

(D) American Psychological Association (APA) was founded by Stanley Hall

(E) Pavlov wins the Nobel prize for his work on digestive system

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Arrange to Astanga yoga arrange the stages in the correct sequence :

(A) Dhyana

(B) Asana

(C) Samadhi

(D) Pranayama

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Arrange the following in correct sequence of HPA axis response to stress, and consequences :

(A) Adrenal glands get stimulated

(B) Release of corticotropin releasing factor

(C) Release of cortisol, epinephrine and nor epinephrine

(D) Release of glucose from liver and muscle

(E) Release of adrenocorticotropic hormone

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In one Exploratory sequential design what would be the correct sequence ?

(A) Quantitative Data Collection

(B) Qualitative Data Collection

(C) Quantitative Data analysis

(D) Qualitative Data Analysis

(E) Interpretation

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One psychologist developed a questionnaire on employee 'Green behaviour', what would be the correct sequence in the context of this tool development :

(A) Identifying the discrimination index of the items

(B) Calculation of croan-bach alpha

(C) Developing a standard score norm

(D) Confirmatory factor analysis

(E) Exploratory factor analysis

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Arrange the stages of group development as suggested by Tuckman :

(A) Storming

(B) Performing

(C) Forming

(D) Adjourning

(E) Norming

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Development of psychoanalysis is marked by four phases namely antecedent analysis who were associated with each phase sequentially :

(A) Breur

(B) GT. Fechner

(C) Sullivan

(D) Adler

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The program evaluation model of a community health program has 4 steps arranged the following in sequences :

(A) Outcome evaluation

(B) Identifying goals and desired outcomes

(C) Process evaluation

(D) Impact evaluation

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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as

Reason (R).

Assertion (A): One psychometrician used Cronbach's alpha to verify reliability of a general knowledge test with answers, in True/False format.

Reason (R); — Cronbach's alpha estimates the internal consistency of a Test.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as

Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Allostasis is a process of adaptation to acute stress by releasing stress hormones in the event of challenge with a goal to restore the homeostasis.

Reason (R): — HPA axis gets activated in the event of stress.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as

Reason (R).

Assertion (A): The researcher manipulating one or more variables is called an experiment.

Reason (R); A research design is one in which a variable is manioulated with a goal of identifying the causes of events is called experimental design

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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as

Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Tobooed words are difficult to recognise.

Reason (R); — Perception of the tabooed words is dependent or knowledge about sociocultural factors.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as

Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : Sexcual derive is one of the physilogical need.

Reason (R): — Human beings cannot live without gratigying sexual drive.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Teaching the parents to understand which is show off behaviours and which is not, is helping them with :

By instructing the parents not to pay attention to Jeevan's show off behaviour at home the psychologist aimed at :

By instructing the teacher to praise those children whenever anyone helped their classmates the psychologist applied the factor of ;

By instructing the teacher to play the loud noise of bore-well digging the psychologist intraduced :

The approach of the psychologist in handling the problem of Jeevan can be summarised as :

What is the design used by the researcher ?

What type of statistical analysis should be used by the researcher address his objective ?

What is the criterion variable in this study ?

There are different domains of PGT. Which one of the following does not come under them ?

Which of the following will be the correct hypothesis for the study ?