Psychology MCQs with explanations

Question 1

Used in conjunction with medication and other therapies, ECT remains an option for the treatment of mood disorders. What dose ECT stand for?

Accepted Answer

Electric – Conclusive Therapy

Question 2

Crime is a____product.

Accepted Answer

social

Question 3

Someone has been extremely anxious for much of the past year, but can’t explain why. There is a good chance that generalized he is experiencing:

Accepted Answer

generalized anxiety disorder

Question 4

“I believed Ahmad’s anxiety and defensiveness are the result of an unrealistic self-image and an inability to take responsibility for her feelings.” This statement would most likely have been made by a:

Accepted Answer

humanistic psychologist

Question 5

Why did Zimbardo and his collaborators (1982) have to terminate their Stanford Prison Study?

Accepted Answer

The prisoners increasingly showed signs of individual and group disintegration

Question 6

Benzodiazepines exert their effects in the brain by enhancing activity at the________receptor.

Accepted Answer

GAB Aergic

Question 7

One of the following controls voluntary movements by activating skeletal muscle:

Accepted Answer

Somatic nervous system

Question 8

Dr. Jamshed wants to see if person’s IQ changes as they get older. To do this he takes three groups of subjects. Group i is made up of 10 years old, and Group III of 25 years old. Dr. Jamshed tests all three groups of their IQ level. The design of this experiment is called:

Accepted Answer

cross sectional study

Question 9

ADHD in children is most often treated with the drug:

Accepted Answer

Ritalin

Question 10

We wish to test the hypothesis that music improves learning. We compare test scores of students who study to music with those who study in silence, Which of the following is an extraneous variable in this experiments?

Accepted Answer

the amount of time allowed the studying

Psychology MCQs with Explanations