Preliminary Examination-Introduction to Psychology

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Preliminary Examination: Introduction to Psychology

Test your knowledge in the fascinating field of psychology with our comprehensive quiz designed for students and enthusiasts alike. This quiz covers various topics including psychological theories, developmental stages, neurological functions, and much more.

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This phrase makes “psychology” a science.

Focus with scientific investigation using various scientific method

Can explain nearly all empirical observations

Includes operational definitions of its observation

Judged by their scientific product

Psychoanalytic perspective believes that

Adult personality is an important indicator of current psychopathology

Characteristics of a person will result to various outcomes

Childhood events will significantly affect adult life

Perception about life events will affect decision

A psychologist concludes that Mr. R has an Obsessive compulsive disorder because he has abnormalities in basal ganglia of the brain and serotonin. What major branch of psychology reflects to this scenario?

Comparative psychology

Cognitive psychology

Developmental psychology

Biopsychology

Ivan is a 7 year old boy who loves to play with gang mates. What specific stage of development he’s in?

The school of thought in psychology that gives importance to how an individual maximizes their potentials is ________________

Biological

Humanistic

Behavioral

Cognitive

The following define psychology except

Science

Study of mental process

Study of pathology

Study of behavior

Linda denies that she has a crush on Lito and she always has a dream about him. What type of behavior does Linda shows?

Voluntary

Complex

Irrational

Unconscious

Eddie said “I punched Kevin without any reason; I just want to punch him”. What behavior he showed best?

Voluntary

Complex

Irrational

Unconscious

The statement, “The whole is greater than the sum of all its parts” exemplifies which school of thought in psychology?

Structuralism

Gestalt

Functionalism

Humanistic

Lilly is going to take the LET next month and she feels so paranoid about it thinking that she can’t pass the board exam. Her negative thoughts give her paranoid feelings. What branch of psychology best describes this scenario?

Developmental psychology

Cognitive psychology

Cognitive Neuroscience

Behavioral psychology

Ms Cecile worked as an expert witness stating the personality disorder of the offendant in a court proceedings. What field of psychology this work falls under?

Forensic psychology

Health psychology

Sports psychology

Psychopathology

This is the part of the brain responsible for sleep arousal.

Reticular Activating System

Limbic System

Brain reward system

Cerebellum

Karla and Lino is a twin. They are not identical. According to a doctor this twin is from a process wherein two eggs were fertilized by two different sperm cells. What kind of twin is this?

Fraternal Twins

Embryonic Twins

Monozygotic twins

Partunatal Twins

This is one of the similarities of a psychologist and a psychometrician.

Psychological Assessment

Pharmacology

Counseling

Psychotherapy

Reflex of a baby where they would turn their head toward the source of something that stimulates their cheek or mouth.

Rooting Reflex

Sucking Reflex

Darwinian Reflex

Pupillary Reflex

True or False: Fontanel is the first baby hair

True

False

True or False: In 23, chromosomes, 21 are autosomes and 2 are genosomes.

True

False

True or False: Greek period is the era of animism

True

False

Minda does psychological assessment, diagnosis and psychological intervention with people with substance use disorder. What field does she works in?

Developmental Psychology

Counseling and Psychotherapy

Clinical Psychology

Experimental Psychology

Nene is a child who wonders and curious on why people smile when they see a friend. She always asks her mother about many things. She is in the developmental stage of _______.

Early childhood

Late childhood

Puberty

Adolescence

This is a characteristic of a neuron of having an reacting to external stimulation

Irritability

Conductibility

Dynamic Polarity

All or Nothing

Principle of heredity which states that "Like begets like" where human individuals will reproduce their own kind.

Reproduction

Variation

Chance

Dominance and recessiveness

This is the developmental stage of a human where people become more reflective about their life. This is an age wherein health and sensory acuity decline.

Late adulthood

Middle adulthood

Early adulthood

Puberty

Hormone being secreted by parathyroid

Thormone

Parathormone

Adrenaline

Cortin

This is the master organ

Brain

Pituitary gland

Pineal gland

Endocrine gland

Preliminary Examination-Introduction to Psychology

Preliminary Examination: Introduction to Psychology

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