Psychology Most Important Questions with Answers on GRE Psychology Diagnostic Pretest Part 1
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1. The research method most typical of ethology research is:
(A) Ecological impact study.
(B) Case study.
(C) Cross-sequential research.
(D) Naturalistic.
(E) Physiological and/or biological hypothesis testing.
Answer: D
2. All of the following could be dependent variables expect:
(A) Rate of response.
(B) Life expectancy.
(C) Chronological age.
(D) Compliance rate.
(E) Reaction time.
Answer: C
3. The best control for practice effects in an experiment is:
(A) Counterbalancing.
(B) Random selection.
(C) Double-blind control.
(D) Factor analysis.
(E) Repeated replication.
Answer: A
4. The names Guttman and Likert are associated with:
(A) Scaling methodology.
(B) Health psychology.
(C) Consumer behavior research.
(D) Opinion survey research.
(E) Psychophysical measurement.
Answer: A
5. The person most associated with studies of the influence of conscious wishes on dreams ( “lucid dreaming” ) is:
(A) Freud.
(B) R. Cartwright.
(C) Dement.
(D) Kostner.
(E) Jung.
Answer: B
6. All of the following are monocular cues to depth expect:
(A) Linear perspective.
(B) Gradient perspective.
(C) Interposition.
(D) Retinal disparity.
(E) Motion parallax.
Answer: D
7. Rosenzweig found significant differences in the brains of rate raised in enriched vs. impoverished environments. Specifically, he found that the brains of rate raised in enriched environments had:
(A) More neurons.
(B) More glial cells.
(C) More DNA and less RNA.
(D) A less convoluted cortex.
(E) Thinner cerebral cortex.
Answer: C
8. The tip of the tongue is most sensitive to which kind of taste?
(A) Sour.
(B) Salt.
(C) Sweet.
(D) Hot.
(E) Bitter.
Answer: C
9. All of the following are part of the limbic system expect:
(A) Amygdala.
(B) Septum.
(C) Cerebellum.
(D) Hippocampus.
(E) Hypothalamus.
Answer: C
10. In Freudian psychoanalysis, denial refers to:
(A) Removal of anxiety by forcing a disturbing thought into the unconscious.
(B) Motivated forgetting.
(C) Removal of a thought from consciousness accompanied by professions of innocence.
(D) Vigorous conscious defense in the face of accusation by others.
(E) Substituting “innocent” behavior for sexualized impulses.
Answer: C
11. In a frequency polygon, the variable plotted along the abscissa is the:
(A) Frequency.
(B) Percentage.
(C) Score.
(D) Standard deviation.
(E) Correlation coefficient.
Answer: C
12. If the mean, median, and mode all fall around the same point, the distribution is said to be:
(A) Platykurtic.
(B) Leptokurtic.
(C) Skewed.
(D) Normal.
(E) Mesokurtic.
Answer: D
13. If obtained scores are ranked in order from the highest to the lowest, the exact middle score is the:
(A) Mode.
(B) Median.
(C) Midpoint.
(D) Mean.
(E) Standard score.
Answer: B
14. Scores on an elementary psychology achievement test given to advanced psychology graduate students will tend to be:
(A) Normally distributed.
(B) Positively skewed.
(C) Negatively skewed.
(D) Modally distributed.
(E) Leptokurtic.
Answer: C
15. A correlation coefficient between variables X and Y of – 71 indicates that:
(A) Variables X and Y tend to decrease together.
(B) As variable X goes up, variable Y tends to decrease.
(C) Approximately 29% of variable X is not accounted for by variable Y.
(D) The two variable are essentially unrelated.
(E) Approximately 29% of variable X is accounted for by variable Y.
Answer: B