(25 QUESTIONS)

QUESTION NO. 1
It is a virus that severely affects pregnant
women and the brain of the unborn baby.

a. AH1N1
b. HIV
c. ZIKA

ANSWER
c. ZIKA

QUESTION NO. 2
If Gloria Diaz won the first Miss Universe
title for the Philippines, and Pia Wurtzbach is
the third, who is the second to got the title?

a. Miriam Quiambao
b. Margie Moran
c. Precious Lara Quigaman

ANSWER
b. MARGIE MORAN

QUESTION NO. 3
The mountains that separate European and
Artic Russia are:

a. the Pyranees
b. the Balkans
c. the Carpathians
d. the Urals

ANSWER
d. The Ursals

QUESTION NO. 4
India has the largest deposits of ____in the
world.

a. Gold
b. Copper
c. Mica
d. None of the Above

ANSWER
c. MICA

QUESTION NO. 5
What does the Olympic Flames symolizes?

a. Unity among various nations of the world

b. Speed, perfection, and strength
c. Sports as harmony among nations
d. Continuity between the ancient and modern
games

ANSWER
d. Continuity between the
ancient and modern games

QUESTION NO. 6
A psychologist interested in studying the
mental processes involved in learning and
memory is focusing on what perspective?

a. Cognitive Psychologist
b. Behaviorist
c. Neuropsychologist

ANSWER
a. Cognitive Psychologist

QUESTION NO. 7
Community Psychologists are interested in
the ___ of mental illness.

a. Treatment
b. Prevention
c. Analysis

ANSWER
b. Prevention

QUESTION NO. 8
Tara graduated from college and was hired
by a large company to develop training
programs to improve the productivity of
employees. Tara most likely received her
degree in _____ psychology.

a. Educational
b. Quantitative
c. Industrial and Organizational

ANSWER
c. Industrial/Organizational

QUESTION NO. 9
Six year-old Jena hits another child and steals
the childs lunch money. A psychologist who
takes psychodynamic approach would
suggest that Jean . . .

a. Learned that hitting someone would result

in reward
b. Has unconscious drive for aggression,
causing her to act out
c. asserted herself, an example of bettering
herself as a better person

ANSWER
b. Has unconscious drive
for aggression, causing
her to act out

QUESTION NO. 10
Which of these would be an example of
consciousness?
a. Being aware of silky, cold taste of ice cream
b. Being influenced by impulses outside of
your awareness
c. Blinking when a baseball comes at your
face

ANSWER
a. Being aware of silky,
cold taste of ice cream

QUESTION NO. 11
Which approach to psychology emphasizes
decision making, problem solving, and
information processing?

a. Behavioral
b. Evolutionary
c. Cognitive

ANSWER
c. Cognitive

QUESTION NO. 12

According to his theory, the mind is made up

of id, ego, and super ego. He is _______.

ANSWER
Sigmund Freud

QUESTION NO. 13
Due to uncontrolled division of cells, ______
is formed.

a. Cancer
b. Clot
c. Tumor

ANSWER
c. Tumor

QUESTION NO. 14
The state of physiological or psychological
dysfunction is known as __________.

a. Disease
b. Cancer
c. Virus

ANSWER
a. Disease

QUESTION NO. 15
Hepatitis is the disease condition of which
part of our body?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Skin
Kidney
Spleen
Liver

ANSWER
d. Liver

QUESTION NO. 16
Joule is the unit of?

a. Energy
b. Pressure
c. Temperature
d. Heat

ANSWER
a. Energy

QUESTION NO. 17
The main objective of ________ is to maintain
peace and security in the world.

a. United States
b. United Nations
c. United Kingdom

ANSWER
b. United Nations

QUESTION NO. 18
Shari reads about a food supplement that would
help her lose weight painlessly by making her less
hungry. She decided to evaluate the quality of the
scientific research on how well this supplement
worked before she tried it. Shari is using?

a. Hypothesis generation
b. Critical thinking
c. Correlational research

ANSWER
b. Critical Thinking

QUESTION NO. 19
Bren answered a series of vocabulary and reading
comprehension questions on a website. When he
finished, the site gave him rating of intelligence. I
dont think that test really measured intelligence
though Bren. Bren is questioning the tests. . .

a. Validity
b. Consistency
c. Reliability

ANSWER
a. Validity

QUESTION NO. 20
Dr. Ancheta is conducting a study comparing
the effect of two types of therapy to see which
is most successful in treating depression.
Type of therapy is the ____ variable

a. Control
b. Independent
c. Dependent

ANSWER
b. Independent

QUESTION NO. 21
When
conducting
naturalistic
observation, a researcher is careful to
__.
a. affect the observed behavior as little as
possible
b. ask all participants the same question in
the same order
c. manipulate the situation so that variables
are controlled

ANSWER
a. affect the observed
behavior as little as
possible

QUESTION NO. 22
The study of the psychological and mental
factors that influence and are influenced by
participation and performance in sport,
exercise, and physical activity. What branch
of Psychology is this?

a. Community Psychology
b. Sports Psychology
c. Geriatric Psychology

ANSWER
b. Sports Psychology

QUESTION NO. 23
It is the psychological specialty that provides
continuing and comprehensive mental and
behavioral health care for individuals and
families. What branch of Psychology is this?

a. Counseling Psychology
b. Abnormal Psychology
c. Clinical Psychology

ANSWER
c. Clinical Psychology

QUESTION NO. 24
__________ psychologists tend to focus more
on persons with adjustment problems, rather
than on person suffering from severe
psychological disorders.

a. Counseling Psychology
b. Abnormal Psychology
c. Clinical Psychology

ANSWER
a. Counseling Psychology

QUESTION NO. 25
He is often regarded as the Father of
Psychology.

a.
b.
c.
d.

Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Wundt
Abraham Maslow
Alfred Binet

ANSWER
b. Wilhelm Wundt

(15 QUESTIONS)

QUESTION NO. 26
According to Eriksons Theory of PsychoSocial Development of Personality, if the
crisis in the Intimacy vs. Isolation is
successfully resolved, what emerges is

a.Fidelity
b. Capacity for Love
c. Care
d.Hope

ANSWER
b. Capacity for Love

QUESTION NO. 27
A test that is designed to specifically measure
what a person has learned is

a.Intelligence Test
b. Aptitude Test
c. Test for Cognitive Abilities
d. Achievement Test

ANSWER
d. Achievement Test

QUESTION NO. 28
In Experimental Psychology, its purpose is
not to confirm whether peoples perceptions
are accurate but to ensure that the research
findings
accurately
reflect
peoples
perceptions, whatever they may be.

a.Triangulation
b. Corroboration
c. Data Analysis
d. Data Reduction

ANSWER
b. Corroboration

QUESTION NO. 29
Sigmund Freud was born in Frieberg Moravia
(Prebor Czechoslovakia) in

a.May 6, 1856
b. May 6, 1865
c. May 8, 1856
d. May 8, 1865

ANSWER
a. May 6, 1856

QUESTION NO. 30
Major field of Industrial Psychology that is
concerned with the issues of leadership, job
satisfaction,
employee
motivation,
communication and conflict management

a.Personnel Psychology
b. Recruitment
c. Organizational Psychology
d.Human Resource Management

ANSWER
c. Organizational
Psychology

QUESTION NO. 31
A type of Non-Probability Sampling with a
purpose and a set of criteria in selecting he
respondents is made by the researcher.

a.Deliberate Sampling
b. Quota Sampling
c. Convenience Sampling
d.Snowballing

ANSWER
a. Deliberate Sampling

QUESTION NO. 32

It focuses on conditions that affect the

acquisitions, performance and maintenance
of behavior. Through observational learning
or modeling, people may acquire complex
patterns of behavior even without being
rewarded.

a.Psychoanalytic Theory
b. Behaviorism
c. Social Learning Theory
d.Humanistic Theory

ANSWER
c. Social Learning
Theory

QUESTION NO. 33
A type of recruitment done by company
through accepting unsolicited applications or
resumes from individuals interested in
working for the company.

a.Help-wanted Advertisement
b. Applicant-initiated Recruitment
c. Employee Referrals Recruitment

ANSWER
b. Applicant-initiated
Recruitment

QUESTION NO. 34
One of the three major phases of Qualitative
Data Analysis is a process that provides an
organized,
compressed
assembly
of
information that permits conclusion drawing.

a.Data Display
b. Data Reduction
c. Verification

ANSWER
a. Data Analysis

QUESTION NO. 35
It is an index of reliability, a proportion that
indicates the ratio between the true score
variance on a test and the total variance

a.Reliability Estimate
b. Reliability Construct
c. Reliability Coefficient

ANSWER
c. Reliability Coefficient

QUESTION NO. 36
According to Fromm, personality develops
not so much in stages but more as a function
of the type of relationship between a child
and its parents. What type of child-parent
relationship signifies immaturity and pseudo
forms of love?

a.Withdrawal Destructiveness
b. Symbiotic relatedness
c. Genuine Productive love

ANSWER
b. Symbiotic Relatedness

QUESTION NO. 37
An error of the interviewer in which he or she
uses limited information about an applicant
to bias their evaluation of the persons
characteristics.

a.Personal Bias
b. Leading Questions
c. Interviewer Domination
d. Halo Effect

ANSWER
d. Halo Effect

QUESTION NO. 38
Term referred by Harry Sullivan as the
smallest unit employed in the study of an
individual. It is defined as the relatively
enduring pattern of energy transformation
which recurrently characterizes the organism.

a.Behavior
b. Personality
c. Dynamism
d.Traits

ANSWER
c. Dynamism

QUESTION NO. 39
According to Adlers theory regarding birth
orders, he or she is an extremely ambitious
child. Adler referred this child to be fortunate
and believed that he or she is always in a
race.

a. First Born
b. Second Born
c. Youngest
d.Only Child

ANSWER
b. Second Born

QUESTION NO. 40
According to Karen Horney, it is a secondary
adjustment technique that is seen in an
individual by never making a decision about
anything.

a. Blind Spot
b. Cynicism
c. Externalization
d.Elusiveness

ANSWER
d. Elusiveness

(10 QUESTIONS)

QUESTION NO. 41
A patient went for consultation and said that
People are after him . Before diagnosing that
he has a Paranoid Personality Disorder, the
clinician must know if

a. He has a history of being in jail

b. His fears are justified
c. He has enemies

ANSWER
b. Fears are justified

QUESTION NO. 42
In Social Psychologys Level of Interaction, it
is referred to as hindi ibang tao category

a. Pakikisama
b. Pakikiisa
c. Pakikipagkapwa-tao

ANSWER
b. Pakikiisa

QUESTION NO. 43

The patient started to have thought disturbances and felt

that his thoughts were being taken away and then brought
back. He called this dagdag-bawas. He noted sabit in
peoples conversations. He would hear a word in a sentence
which was out of context of what was being said or
changing the sentences meaning. There were also instances
when he thought that television and radio shows were
talking about him, telling him to do things and were saying
things that he had in mind. These are symptoms of persons
with

a. Schizophrenia
b. Bipolor Disorder
c. Paranoid Personality Disorder

ANSWER
a. Schizophrenia

QUESTION NO. 44

Spearman Brown Formula is used

to measure - - - - -

ANSWER
Split-half Reliability

QUESTION NO. 45
It is a philosophy of constructing test that
assumes that scales should be univariate
and independent. That is, scales should
measure only one variable and should not
correlate with scales that measure a
different variable.

a. Criterion-Keyed Test
b. Factor Analysis
c. Exploratory Scale Construction

ANSWER
b. Factor Analysis

QUESTION NO. 46

When (year) and where did

Wilhelm Wundt founded the first
psychological laboratory?

ANSWER
1879, Liepzig, Germany

QUESTION NO. 47

Traditional method of descriptive

reporting usually found in
intellectual assessment
a. Standard Score
b. Scaled Score
c. T- Score

ANSWER
a. Standard Score

QUESTION NO. 48

He believed that the most intelligent

persons were those equipped with the
best sensory abilities .
a. Alfred Binet
b. Jean Piaget
c. Francis Galton

ANSWER
c. Francis Galton

QUESTION NO. 49

It is the most widely used technique

to determine the correlation of two
variables.

ANSWER
Pearson R

QUESTION NO. 50

According to DSM 5, it is a disorder

that involves recurrent, irresistible
urges to pull out hair from scalp,
eyebrows and other areas of the
body, despite trying to stop it. It
starts with letter T.

ANSWER
Trichotillomania

TIE-BREAKER
(KNOCK-OUT
QUESTIONS)

QUESTION NO. 1

Both Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa

have an overly urge to be - - - - (one
word)

ANSWER
Thin

QUESTION NO. 2

It is the highest level of Filipino

Social Interaction that means to
treat everyone as equal.
a. Pakikisama
b. Pakikiisa
c. Pakikipagkapwa

ANSWER
c. Pakikipagkapwa

QUESTION NO. 3

These are transparent templates

and patterns that help people make
sense of the world.
a.Behaviors
b.Personal Constructs
c. Characteristics
d. Habits

ANSWER
b. Personal Construct

QUESTION NO. 4
He published a wooden puzzle test in 1914 and
also used the now familiar digit-symbol
substitution test.

a.Knox
b.Terman
c. Galton
d. Binet

ANSWER
a. Knox

QUESTION NO. 5
Dr. Dumbledore is a cognitive psychologist.
His primary interest of study is
a.How cognition affects behavior
b.How individual process new information
c. How individual respond to stimulus

ANSWER
b. How individual process
new information

QUESTION NO. 6
During WWI, he headed a team of psychologists
who produced the Army Alpha, a verbally loaded
group test for average and superior recruits, and
the Army Beta, a nonverbal group test for illiterates
and non-English-speaking recruits.

a.Henry Goddard
b.Francis Galton
c. Robert Yerkes

ANSWER
c. Robert Yerkes

QUESTION NO. 7
The process of measuring psychology-related
variables through the use of devices or procedures
designed to obtain a sample of behavior.

a.Psychological Testing
b.Psychological Assessment

ANSWER
a. Psychological Testing

QUESTION NO. 8

An estimate of reliability obtained by

correlating pairs of scores from the
same people on two different
administrations of the same test

ANSWER
Test-retest Method

QUESTION NO. 9
A family of techniques that entail a cost benefit
analysis designed to yield information relevant to a
decision about the usefulness and/or practical
value of a tool of assessment

a.Utility
b.Utility Analysis
c. Validity

ANSWER
b. Utility Analysis

QUESTION NO. 10
Transformation of raw scores into a more
meaningful scale derived from the performance of
a large sample of persons representative of one or
more specified groups.

a.Standardization
b.Norms
c. Test scorings

ANSWER
b. Norms