Psychology Chapter 1: Variations in Psychological Attributes

List of Questions and Answers

Q 1. Diya is a diligent girl, who shows commitment, persistence and patience. All her behaviour is goal directed.Such characteristics focus on _____________ facet of integral intelligence.
a) Social Competence
b) Cognitive Capacity
c) Entrepreneurial competence
d) Emotional competence
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Ans: c) Entrepreneurial competence

Q 2. ____________ refers to an individual’s underlying potential for acquiring skills.
a) Intelligence
b) Aptitude
c) Interest
d) Personality
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Ans: b) Aptitude

Q 3. Name the psychologist who proposed the concept of Intelligence Quotient.
a) Alfred Binet
b) Theodore Simon
c) William Stern
d) Jack Naglieri
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Ans: c) William Stern

Q 4. __________ is an exceptional general ability shown in superior performance in a wide variety of areas.
a) Talent
b) Giftedness
c) Intelligence
d) Creativity
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Ans: b) Giftedness

Q 5.________ refers to the abilities involved in forming, using, and transforming mental images.
a) Spatial
b) Musical
c) Naturalistic
d) Intrapersonal
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Ans: a) Spatial

Q 6.If a person has the skill of understanding motives, feelings and behaviours of other people, he/she is said to have
a) Interpersonal intelligence
b) Intrapersonal intelligence
c) Linguistic intelligence
d) Social intelligence
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Ans: a) Interpersonal intelligence

Q 7. Identify the formula for calculating intelligence quotient.
a) IQ = MA / CA x 100
b) IQ = CA / MA x 100
c) IQ = MA + CA x 100
d) IQ = MA x CA x 100
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Ans: a) IQ = MA / CA x 100

Q 8. The ability to monitor one's own and other’s feeling and emotions , to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action is called
a) Emotional intelligence
b) Social intelligence
c) Componential intelligence
d) Experiential intelligence
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Ans: a) Emotional intelligence

Q 9. Intelligence is composed of one general factor (g) and several specific factors (s).Who gave this theory?
a) Spearman
b) Guilford
c) Sternberg
d) Gardner
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Ans: a) Spearman

Q 10. PASS model of intelligence was proposed by -
a) J.P. Das, Jack Naglieri, and Kirby
b) Jack Naglieri, Binet
c) Binet, Terman and Kirby
d) None of the above
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Ans: a) J.P. Das, Jack Naglieri, and Kirby

Q 11. Charles Spearman prepared -
a) Two Factor Theory
b) Level One Level Two theory
c) Theory of Primary mental abilities
d) None of the above
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Ans: a) Two Factor Theory

Q 12. Spatial Ability refers to -
a) Skills in forming visual images and patterns
b) Sensitivity to feature natural world
c) Using the body flexibility and creatively
d) None of the above
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Ans: a) Skills in forming visual images and patterns

Q 13. Experiential intelligence refers to :
a) Analysis of information
b) Ability to deal with environment
c) using past experience creatively
d) None of the above
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Ans: c) using past experience creatively