ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL, DHAULA KUAN
CLASS-11TH
PSYCHOLOGY
Given below are some learning checks for 1 mark each.
1. The school of thought views the mind as an information processing system like a computer
that receives, processes, transforms, stores and retrieves information.
a. Structuralism b. Functionalism c. Behaviorism d.Cognitivism
2. This school of thought emerged in reaction to structuralism and argued that our experiences are more than the
inputs we receive from our environment. Which school of thought is this?
a. Functionalist school b.Humanistic school c.Psychoanalytic school d.Gestalt school
3. Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow belonged to the school of thought known as humanistic
4. wrote the book called ‘Psychology in a Third World Country: The Indian Experience’.
Prof. Durganand Sinha
5. Richa meets clients in her private practice and helps them in their problems such as motivational, adjustment,
emotional and vocational issues. Based on this information, we may draw an inference that Richa is a
psychologist. Counseling Psychologist
6. Which of the statements is NOT true for the discipline of psychology?
a) Psychologists try to minimize biases in explaining the behaviors by making their analysis scientific.
b) Mind cannot exist without the brain but mind is a separate entity.
c) Psychology is a modern discipline which can be treated as a natural science as it adopts hypothetico-deductive
model and emphasizes the subjectivity of a phenomenon. SINCE IT EMPHASIZES OBJECTIVITY
d) All human behavior can be explained in terms of causes which are internal (to the organism) or external-
having location in the outside environment.
7. Psychoanalysis is the method given by Freud to understand and cure psychological disorders. True/False?
8. Name any one psychologist who used ‘Introspection’ as a technique. WILHELM WUNDT
(STRUCTURALIST)
9. Consider the following statements and answer as to which is the best example of covert behavior:
a. Blinking of eye when a stone is hurled at you b. Smiling while reading a book
c. Embracing your mother d. The glands secreting hormones (SINCE IT IS NOT
OBSERVABLE)
11. The concerns such as the nature of the human mind or how humans get to know their motivations and
emotions, methods of knowing and various domains of human nature are common to psychology and
.
a.Medicine b. Sociology c.Philosophy d.Computer Science
12. Which of the following is/are true about human behaviour?
i. Human behaviour has one particular cause that can be known precisely. (WRONG, BECAUSE COMPLEX
AND MULTIPLE CAUSES)
ii. Human behavior cannot be explained scientifically. (WRONG, BECAUSE IT CAN BE EXPLAINED
SCIENTIFICALLY AND IN TERMS OF SOCIA-CULTURAL REASONS)
iii. Human behaviour can be controlled and modified.
iv. Variations in human behaviour rarely occur due to environmental factors. (ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
ARE ONE OF THE MAJOR FACTORS. THEY ARE NOT RARE IN AFFECTING OUR BEHAVIORS)
v. Understanding of human behaviour would make sense only when the context is taken into account.
a. Only iii and v are true b. Only iii, iv and v are true
c. Only i and iii are true d. Only i, ii, iv are true
13. A psychologist is interested in studying the life experiences that forced a group of young men to enter
the world of crime and shaped them as criminals. He interviewed 10-15 such individuals to understand
their unique journeys leading them into the world of crime. Which stream of psychology does the problem
fit into? (SINCE STREAM IS ASKED, IT WILL BE PSYCHOLOGY AS SOCIAL SCIENCE. (IF
BRANCH IS ASKED, YOU WILL WRITE CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY))
14. A researcher wishes to study the thoughts of a player while at the game of chess. What is this
researcher interested in? (1)
(i) Experiences
(ii) Mental Processes (THOUGHTS ARE MENTAL PROCESSES)
(iii) Behaviours
(iv) Metacognition
16. Picking up a ball and running constitute (a) OVERT types of behaviors as they can be
outwardly seen, but, glandular secretions or racing heartbeat are the examples of (b) COVERT
types of behavior since they cannot be seen outwardly.
17. Human experiences are objective since they are highly individualized and unique. True/False?
18. A psychologist is interested in knowing how the meditators feel when they enter into an altered state of
consciousness while meditating. This psychologist is studying:
a. Behaviors
b. Mental Processes
c. Experiences
d. Cognition
19. A psychologist is most likely to study the difference in how groups take decisions as
compared to individuals. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST
20. This school of thought suggests that our perceptual experiences are more than the sum of its
components.
(i) Identify the school of thought. GESTALT
(ii) To which school of thought did this come as a reaction? STRUCTURALISM AS IT TALKED
ABOUT THE CONSTITUENTS OF HUMAN MIND. ON OTHER HAND, GESTALT TALKS
ABOUT WHOLES OR OUR PERCEPTIONS BEING HOLISTIC
