UPPSC GDC Assistant Professor (Psychology) Exam - English

Copper tools from which age were found in Meerut and Saharanpur?

Which of the following centres of Uttar Pradesh is not related to Indus valley Civilization?
1. Kalibanga                              2.Lothal
3. Alamgirpur                           4.Hulas     

Which site was discovered by Bharat Sevak Samaj on the bank of river Hindon?

Kosala (Ayodhya) mentioned Rama story' was related to which of the following dynasties?

Which of the following Buddhist Literatures mentions the Mahajanapadas?

Mahajanapadas are contained in which of the Jain Literature?

How many Mahajanapadas are related to Uttar Pradesh ?

During the period of Mahajanapadas, Mathura was the capital of

The capital of Shurasena Mahajanpada was?

During the Mahajanapadas period, the capital city of Kosala was

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘CLEANLINESS’ each of the which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?

Team A has scored more goals than Team B
Team C has scored fewer goals than Team B
Team A has scored fewer goals than Team C .
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the second, the third, the sixth and the eight letters of the word FRAGMENT using each only once, which of the following will be the third letter of that word ? If no such word can be formed, give ‘X’ as the answer and if more than one such word can be formed, give ‘Y’ as the answer.

How many such letters are there in the word ORIENTAL each of which is as far away from the beginning of the word as when they are arranged alphabetically?

How many such pairs of letters in the word CREDIT each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet?

Temperature can be expressed as derived quantity in terms of

Electron volt is a unit of

Dimensions of impulse are

Potential is measured in

Which of the following is not a synthetic fibre:

Which one of the following is not contained in Portland cement ?

What is the reson for white cement to be white ?

Which of the following contain enzymes for cellular respiration ?

Which one among the following nutrients is a strctural

Which one among the following nutrients is a structural component of the cell wall of plants ?

‘Mukhyamantri Mahtari Nyay Rath’ was launched by the CM of which of the following state?

Mirabai Chanu has won the first Gold medal for India at CWG 2022. Mirabai Chanu participated in which of the following category ?

'The Indian Vegetable Oil Producers' Association (IVPA) and Palm Oil Council of which country have signed an MOU to promote use of palm oil ?

Who gave away Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) Awards in New Delhi in July 2022 ?

Name the company that recently partnered with Talgo India Private Limited to set up a joint venture for manufacturing high-speed trains in India ?

Autonomic Nervous System in concerned with the regulation of………
I. Smooth muscles
II. Skeletal muscles
III. Cardiac muscles
IV. Glands

What would be the total numbers of pairs in a study scaling the twelve attitude items by the method of paired comparison ?

Match List-I and List-II and indicate your response by choosing the coders given below:
 List-I                                              List-II
(Theorists )                                    (Motivational Concept )
p. Hull                                           1. Instinct
q. Cannon                                    2. Drive
r. Tinbergen                                 3. Homeostatic
s. McDougall                                4. Fixed Actions Pattern

Match List-I and List-II and indicate your answer with the help of codes given below :
 List-I                                        List-II
(Psychologist )                        (Concept of Personality )
p. Kelly                                     1. Mandala
q. Erickson                               2. Corollary
r. Adler                                     3. Fidelity
s. Jung                                      4. Compensation

The chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance is called

Which set of processes is involved in storing of information in long-term memory ?
1.Chunking
2. Long term potentiation
3. Consolidation
4. Monitoring

Which of the following personality psychologist does not fall in the group of humanistic approaches of personality ?

What is the correct sequence of events given below ?
1. Releasing of neurotransmitters
2. Post synaptic potential
3. Binding on receptor sites
4. Synthesis of neurotransmitters
Codes :

Which of the following is/are examples (s) of continuous organismic variable ?
1. Gender
2. Heart beats per minutes
3. Trials required to learn a list of CVC trigrams
4. Intelligence

Arrange the following in correct sequence through which of the sound waves reach the receptors :
I. Oval window
II. Incus
III. Stapes
IV. Malleus
V. Tympanic membrane

Arrange the following into correct sequence as per James-Lange theory :
I. Emotion producing situation
II. Feeling of emotion
III. Elicitation of emotional responses.
IV. The brain receives sensory feedback from the muscles and other organs 

Read each of the following two statements Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :
Assertion (A) : Ego defense mechanisms help to protect the person from overwhelming anxiety .
Reason (R): Major psychodynamic functions of anxiety are to help the individual avoid conscious recognition  of  acceptable instinctual impulses and to allow impulse qualification only indirectly .

As we enter a movie theatre from bright light the visual sensitivity increases and within 5-10 minutes we are able to see under low levels of illumination. This is due to

Which of the following  are methods of solving problems ?
1. Trial and error
2. Mental set
3. Algorithm
4. Heuristics
5. Functional Fixedness

Given below are two statements on labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R) . Indicate your answer using the code given below .
Assertion (A): In a memory experiment participants were fund to use both verbal and visual encoding while performing the code given below .
Reason (R): Episodic buffer a component of working memory .is used to integrate and to store briefly the information from phonological loop and visuospatialsketchpad .

Put the steps involved in observational learning in sequences of its occurrence
I. Reproduction
II. Attention
III. Motivation for later use
IV. Retention

Which set  of  following conditions indicate failure of recognition ?
1. Associative agnosia
2.Constructional apraxia
3. Prosopagnosia
4. Pure Alexia
5. Ataxia

A generalized picture or model of an object or event, learned in the past and stored in memory, is :

What would be the degrees of freedom for a chi-square based on 4x5 contingency table ?

Perceptive auditory receptors in the cochlea are identified as

Children of affluent and educated parents tend to score higher on tests of ability than children of parents living in poverty and who are not well educated .this relationship between socio- economic status and scores on ability tests is because of :
1. genetic differences in ability between different social classes.
2. differences in the adequacy of the biological and environmental factors in nutrition and health care .
3. differences in the cultural and learning experiences provided for children from different social classes.

In reasoning when the promises are true,…. Cannot be false .

Arrange the following stages of memory in order of their occurrence .
I. Chunking
II. Sensory register
III. Consolidation
IV. Elaborative rehearsal
V. Selective attention

Arjun gets annoyed when his mother nags him to do his homework. When he finally does it  his mother stops nagging . Now he does the homework without any nagging .here nagging has served as a

Given below are the two statements Assertion (A) and  Reason (R) . Indicate your answer using the codes given below .
Assertion (A): Larger the image of an object on the retina, the closer it is judged to be in addition .if an object is large than other objects. It is often perceived as closer.
Reason(R): Retinal disparity provides an important cue for depth perception .

Which of the following cells do produce myelin in the Central Nervous System ?

Taylor conceptualized anxiety as a drive and hypothesized that subjects scoring higher on her anxiety scale would be conditioned faster than the low-scoring subjects. The experimental studies confirmed this hypothesis for eyelid conditioning. The results provide evidence for the

Micro sleep occurs mainly due to one of the following :

Which of the following internal conditions determine perceptual process ?
1. Intelligence
2. Emotion
3. Motivation
4. Information

Which of the following is not a consequence of Spearman’s theory ?

A test involves presenting a pair of words like FATHER-DAUGHTER and the subject is required to list as many ways in which the pair is related.
In this measure which of the abilities are given by Guilford ?

Match List-I and List-II and indicate your answer with the help of codes given below :
List-I                                                  List-II
Phenomenon)                                 (Description )
p. Thoughts                                      1. Properties that best exemplify the concept
q. Concept                                        2. Process of assigning an object to a
concept (class)
r. Prototype                                       3. Language of the mind
s. Categorization                              4.Represents an entire class

Match List-I and List-II and indicate your answer with the help of codes given below :
List-I                                                            List-II
(Phenomenon)                                         (Condition)
p. Loss of memory of events                    1. Mental contamination
that occurred prior to a loss inducing
event .
q. Loss of memory of events that             2. Retrograde Amnesia
occurs after a loss inducing event .
r. Blocking of information in memory     3. Anterograde Amnesia
we don’t try to remember, produced
by our retrieval of other related information
s. Mental processing that is not readily  4. Retrieval inhibition
under our control influence our
judgements , emotions or behaviour

Afterseveral visits to the doctor for chemotherapy. Anita finds that she begins to feel nauseous just sitting in the waiting room. According to classical conditioning .Anita ‘s feeling of nausea in the absence of chemotherapy is

Which of the following do not belong to laws of perceptual grouping ?
I. Law of figure and ground
II. Law of good continuation
III. Law of common fate
IV. Law of closure
V. Law of proximity

Match List-I and List-II and indicate your answer with the help of codes given below :
List-I                                  List-II
(Number)                        (Structure )
p. 31                                  1. Lobes of cerebrum
q. 7                                    2. Cranial nerves
r. 12                                   3. Cervical vertebrae
s. 4                                     4. Spinal nerves

Read the following two statements the first labelled as Assertion (A) and the second labelled as Reason (R) . Indicate your answer using the codes given below the statements :
Assertion(A): Non-equivalent control groups are often encountered in quasi-experimental studies. As compared to experimental studies.
Reason(R): In quasi-experimental studies,As compared to experimental studies, secondary variance is less efficiently controlled.

Self determination theory (humanistic view of motivation) focuses on which of the following needs.
I. Autonomy
II. Competence
III. Esteem
IV. Self-actualization
V. Relatedness

What is an Ipsativetest ?

Which of the following are correct for self concept ?
1. Self-concept includes not only one’s perceptions of what one is like but also what one thinks one ought to be .
2. Self-concept follows the general laws and principles of perception established in  experimental psychology.
3. Self- Concept represents an  organised, coherent and integrated pattern of self related perceptions.
4. Development of self-concept follows a specific time table of critical stages.

Which of the following is/ are not a product in Guilford’s model ?
1. Convergent production
2. Divergent production
3. Transformation
4. Implication

Greater the handicap of the students coming to the educational institutions, greater the demand on the :

Number of different factors as specified by Spearman to explain the performance on some tests :

Match List-I and List-II and indicate your answer with the help of the codes given below :
List-I                                                          List-II
(Temporal arrangement of                 (From of conditioning)
UCS&CS)
p. Onset of the Unconditioned             1. Trace conditioning
Stimulus(UCS) occurs while the
Conditioned Stimulus (CS) is still present .
q. Onset of the Conditioned Stimulus  2. Simultaneous conditioning
(CS) Precedes the onset of the
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
r. The Conditioned stimulus (CS) and   3. Backward conditioning
the Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
begin and end at the same time .
s. Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)          4. Delay conditioning
precedes the Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

A nerve cell that responds to a vertical line but not to horizontal line is an example of

Using the multiaxial system of DSM-IV-TR paranoid personality disorder and borderline personality disorder would be coded on

Match List-I with List-II and indicate your answer with the help of codes given below :

List-I                                               List-II
(Authors)                                     (Statements)
p. Herbert spencer                      1. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought

q. Albert von                                 2. It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.                     

r. Karl Marx                                   3. Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings and not the intellect.

s. Tacitus Agricola                        4. “ Mere social contact begets a stimulation of animal spirits that heightens the efficiency of each individual workman .

 

Which of the following are the features of behaviour assessment ?
1. Researcher can collect self reported samples of behaviour from respondents as they live their daily lives.
2. Researcher devises explicit coding system that contains behavioural categories of interest .
3. It requires high level of interjudge reliability in using the coding categories to record behaviour .
4. It is applied to record behaviour in live settings but not in videotaped behaviour Codes:

The concept of creative intelligence was given by

Having seen or heard a stimulus once may facilitate our recognizing it on a latter occasion, even if we are not aware that this is happening. This phenomena is referred to as

Match List-I with List-II and indicate your answer using codes given below .
List-I                                                         List-II
(Concept )    (Theorists )
p. Shaping and chaining                       1. Tolman
q. Law of effect                                       2. Skinner
r. Cognitive map                                     3. Bandura
s. Modeling                                             4. Thorndike

An  experimenter wishes to chemically stimulate the brain area of the animal by two substances what are the choices among the following?
I. GABA
II. Glutamic acid
III. Glycine
IV. Kainic acid

Kohler's theory of learning is known by the following name ?

Directions: Read the following two statements Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the codes given below :
10. Assertion (A): Promax-rotated factors cannot be subjects to higher – order factors analysis.
Reason(R): Promax-rotated results in oblique factors .

Emotional intelligence involves __

Match List-I with List-II and indicate your answer using codes given below :
List-I                                              List-II
(Theorist)                                     (Theory/hypothesis of Emotion)
p. Tomkins                                    1. Dimensional appraisal
q. Schechter and singer              2. Personal meaning
r. Smith and Ellsworth                3. Facial feedback hypothesis
s. Lazarus                                      4. Unexplained arousal and appraisal of situations

Defence  attorneys often protest prosecutor’s use of eyewitness testimony because

. Match List-I with List-II and indicate your answer with the help of the codes given below:
List-I                                                        List-II
(Description)                                        (Nomenclature )
p. Number of new cases that              1. Epidemiology
occur over a given period of time .
q. Study of the distribution of             2. Syndrome
diseases or health related behaviours
in a given population
r. Number of active cases in a            3. Incidence
population in a given period of time .
s. A group or cluster of Symptoms    4. Prevalence
that occur together

Read each of the following two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below:
Assertion (A) :People maintain buffer zone around their bodies.
Reason (R): The extent of personal space depends on the familiarity with others near to them

scree is a

Which school of psychology was originally developed by Max Wertheimer , Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler ?

According to which law a person’ s mind can perceive objects as a whole even when they’re not complete in front of them .

Which of law is sometimes referred to as the law of good figure ?

The concept of figure- ground perception is often illustrated with the classic faces or vases illusion also known as :

…….Constancy is the tendency to perceive on object as being the same size regardless of whether it is close or far away .

. …… is the perception of an object or quality as constant even though our sensation of the object changes.

Which principle states that elements that move in the same direction will be perceived as belonging together and forming a figure

……….refers to the use of contextual information –to the use of the big picture .

……is the difference in the images falling on the retina of the two eyes .

The cues that can be processed by just one eye . is often referred to as :

The Two eyes of humans are separated from each other by about …….. millimeters.

When you are looking at an object that extends into the distance such as a grassy filed the texture becomes less and less apparent the farther it goes into the distance is an example of which type of monocular cue ?

…….is characterized by visually perceived images that are deceptive or misleading .

Phantom limb the thermal grill illusion and the Cutaneous rabbit illusion is an example of which type of illusion .

Which of the following Greek philosopher believed that knowledge is acquired through learning and experience?

Operant conditioning is also known as :

……. Is a chamber that contains a bar or key that an animal can press or manipulate in order to obtain food or water as a type of reinforcement

We sometimes attempt to solve problems by applying the techniques that worked in similar situations in the past. What type of method are we using ?

Who wrote the book Beyond Freedom and Dignity ?

. ……. Refers to a procedure whereby an unconditioned stimulus is consistently presented before a neural stimulus .

A dog conditioned to salivate to a tone of a particular pitch ad loudness will also salivate with considerable regularity in response to tones of higher and lower pitch is an example of :

In Classical Conditioning ……….is the ability of differentiate between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that have not been paired with an unconditioned stimulus .

Which of the following is most appropriate for the assessment of Self-Actualization ?

………is any event that strengthens or increases the behaviour it follows .

Which theory proposes that memory fades die to the mere passage of time ?

When new learning is disturbed by previous learning it is called .

The visible spectrum wavelength ranges from

Which memory system is also sometimes known as working memory ?

Three mountains task was used by Piaget to study ______ in children .

. …..refers to the process through which information is retained and held over a period of time .