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"People are motivated when they find themselves in a situation of unfairness where a person receives less than the person believes he/she deserve". This assertion is one of the basic tenets of [Question ID = 1004]
1. ERG theory [Option ID = 4015]
2. Expectancy theory [Option ID = 4016]
3. Need hierarchy theory [Option ID = 4014]
4. Equity theory [Option ID = 4013]
Correct Answer: Equity theory [Option ID = 4013]
The Omnibus hypothesis means [Question ID = 972]
1. Covering one situation at a time [Option ID = 3887]
2. Covering many situations at once [Option ID = 3886]
3. Covering many situations over time [Option ID = 3888]
4. Alternate hypothesis [Option ID = 3885]
Correct Answer: Alternate hypothesis [Option ID = 3885]
The attribution theory proposed that the individuals make attributions based on information gathered in the form of three informational cues. These are
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1. Consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency [Option ID = 4025]
2. Authenticity, reliability, and similarity [Option ID = 4027]
3. Persuasiveness, intuitional, and consistency [Option ID = 4026]
4. Credibility, consistency, and validity [Option ID = 4028]
Correct Answer: Consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency [Option ID = 4025]
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Central to Social Learning theory is an individual's beliefs and expectancies about his or her ability to perform a specific task effectively may be refer to
1. Self sufficiency [Option ID = 4019]
2. Self assessment [Option ID = 4018]
3. Self efficacy [Option ID = 4020]
4. Self enhancement [Option ID = 4017]
Correct Answer: Self enhancement [Option ID = 4017]
The _________________________ of a study is the extent to which the results can be generalized to other populations and settings. [Question ID = 979]
1. Efficacy [Option ID = 3916]
2. Internal validity [Option ID = 3913]
3. External validity [Option ID = 3915]
4. Reliability [Option ID = 3914]
Correct Answer: Internal validity [Option ID = 3913]

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'Informal communication' is mostly associated with which of the following? [Question ID = 996]
1. Grapevine [Option ID = 3982]
2. Boundary-less [Option ID = 3984]
3. Group think [Option ID = 3983]
4. Group chain [Option ID = 3981]
Correct Answer: Group chain [Option ID = 3981]
Autogynephilia is defined by [Question ID = 930]
1. Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction to prepubescent children [Option ID = 3719]
2. Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction to thoughts, images or thoughts about oneself as a woman [Option ID = 3717]
3. Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction to oneself [Option ID = 3718]
4. Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction to being humiliated [Option ID = 3720]
Correct Answer: Recurrent, and intense sexual attraction to thoughts, images or thoughts about oneself as a woman [Option ID = 3717]
The degrees of freedom (c-1) (r-1) is applicable in [Question ID = 956]
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1. Mann-Whitney U test [Option ID = 3821]
2. Chi-Square test [Option ID = 3822]
3. Student's t-test [Option ID = 3824]
4. Kruskal-Wallis H test [Option ID = 3823]
Correct Answer: Mann-Whitney U test [Option ID = 3821]
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Highly cohesive groups often assume that they can do no wrong and that information contrary to the group's view should be rejected. This tendency is called:
1. Group norms [Option ID = 3681]
2. Groupthink [Option ID = 3682]
3. Evaluation apprehension [Option ID = 3683]
4. Brainstorming [Option ID = 3684]
Correct Answer: Group norms [Option ID = 3681]
A deficit in recognition ability, regardless of the senses involved is known as [Question ID = 982]
1. Amnesia [Option ID = 3925]
2. Contralateral neglect [Option ID = 3927]
3. Aphasia [Option ID = 3928]
4. Agnosia [Option ID = 3926]
Correct Answer: Amnesia [Option ID = 3925]

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Carol Gilligan departs from Kohlberg's theory on moral development by highlighting which of these differences? [Question ID = 989]
1. Males have ethics of care [Option ID = 3956]
2. Males have ethics of justice [Option ID = 3953]
3. Females have ethics of justice [Option ID = 3955]
4. Females have ethics of care [Option ID = 3954]
Correct Answer: Males have ethics of justice [Option ID = 3953]
When a group begins to function as a collective body rather than simply as a collection of individuals and role differentiation in group members become clear, members begin to serve different functions, show regard for meetings, tasks and group goals. Which stage of group development does it represent according to Tuckman? [Question ID = 966]
1. Norming [Option ID = 3863]
2. Adjourning [Option ID = 3864]
3. Performing [Option ID = 3861]
4. Storming [Option ID = 3862]
Correct Answer: Performing [Option ID = 3861]
Whose theory of personality highlights a phenotypic and genotypic basis of personality development? [Question ID = 986]
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1. Eysenck [Option ID = 3941]
2. Pearls [Option ID = 3942]
3. Adler [Option ID = 3944]
4. Jung [Option ID = 3943]
Correct Answer: Eysenck [Option ID = 3941]
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Four dimensions comprise the essence of empowerment. These are [Question ID = 1013]
1. Meaning, competence, self determination, and impact [Option ID = 4051]
2. Meaning, self determination, resourcefulness, and connections [Option ID = 4049]
3. Self determination, competence, resourcefulness, and connections [Option ID = 4050]
4. Competence, impact, social networking, and self determination [Option ID = 4052]
Correct Answer: Meaning, self determination, resourcefulness, and connections [Option ID = 4049]
In certain social situations, individuals lose their sense of identity when they are in a group. This phenomenon is known as [Question ID = 991]
1. Cohesiveness [Option ID = 3962]
2. Groupthink [Option ID = 3961]
3. Proprioception [Option ID = 3963]
4. Deindividuation [Option ID = 3964]
Correct Answer: Groupthink [Option ID = 3961]

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Jonah Complex was conceptualized by [Question ID = 1018]
1. Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 4069]
2. Abraham Maslow [Option ID = 4071]
3. Carl Jung [Option ID = 4070]
4. Alfred Adler [Option ID = 4072]
Correct Answer: Sigmund Freud [Option ID = 4069]
Julian Rotter's proposition that individuals develop beliefs about themselves having considerable/little control (internals v/s externals) over the events that befall them is [Question ID = 941]
1. An innate understanding of the events and their outcomes [Option ID = 3762]
2. Repeated associations of stimulus and response [Option ID = 3763]
3. Cognitive dissonance they experience with respect to their perception of skills and expected outcomes [Option ID = 3764]
4. Generalized expectancies of their actions and the reinforcement values they attach to them [Option ID = 3761]
Correct Answer: Generalized expectancies of their actions and the reinforcement values they attach to them [Option ID = 3761]
Behaviour, emitted spontaneously or voluntarily, that operate on the environment to change is called [Question ID = 923]
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1. Opposition principle [Option ID = 3689]
2. Behaviour potential [Option ID = 3692]
3. Operant behaviour [Option ID = 3690]
4. Personal disposition [Option ID = 3691]
Correct Answer: Opposition principle [Option ID = 3689]
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In a normal probability curve, what percentage of test scores will fall between 2 and 3 standard deviations above the mean? [Question ID = 977]
1. 2.1% [Option ID = 3908]
2. 68.2% [Option ID = 3905]
3. 13.6% [Option ID = 3907]
4. 34.1% [Option ID = 3906]
Correct Answer: 68.2% [Option ID = 3905]
Duncan's multiple range test, Newman-Keuls test, Tukey's HSD test and Scheffe test can be used only when [Question ID = 973]
1. F ratio is not significant [Option ID = 3890]
2. F ratio cannot be determined [Option ID = 3891]
3. F ratio is significant [Option ID = 3889]
4. t ratio is not significant [Option ID = 3892]
Correct Answer: F ratio is significant [Option ID = 3889]

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A leader attempts to influence subordinates by putting them in a good mood before making a request, which form of influencing tactic does it represent?
1. Ingratiation [Option ID = 3858]
2. Inspirational appeal [Option ID = 3859]
3. Consultation [Option ID = 3857]
4. Rational persuasion [Option ID = 3860]
Correct Answer: Consultation [Option ID = 3857]
In the latency stage of Erik Erikson's developmental tendencies, ways of coping involves [Question ID = 960]
1. None of these [Option ID = 3840]
2. Identity cohesion and role confusion [Option ID = 3839]
3. Initiative and guilt [Option ID = 3837]
4. Industriousness and inferiority [Option ID = 3838]
Correct Answer: Initiative and guilt [Option ID = 3837]
Sigmund Freud's system of human development makes which assumptions about development? [Question ID = 988]
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1. Enactive, iconic and symbolic [Option ID = 3952]
2. Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational [Option ID = 3949]
3. Compensation, reversibility, identity [Option ID = 3950]
4. Dynamic, sequential and structural [Option ID = 3951]
Correct Answer: Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational [Option ID = 3949]
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Axonal conduction in normal direction i.e., conduction from cell body to terminal buttons is called [Question ID = 949]
1. Directed conduction [Option ID = 3796]
2. Saltatory conduction [Option ID - 3795]
3. Antidromic conduction [Option ID = 3794]
4. Orthodromic conduction [Option ID = 3793]
Correct Answer: Orthodromic conduction [Option ID = 3793]
An employee is exhibiting high level of emotional intelligence in the workplace. Which of the following skills he would be exhibiting as per Goleman's framework?
1. Self awareness, Self motivation, Impression management, Empathy, Social skills. [Option ID = 3870]
2. Self awareness, Self motivation, Impression management, Empathy, Other enhancement skills. [Option ID = 3871]
3. Self awareness, Self motivation, Self management, Empathy, Social skills. [Option ID = 3869]
4. Self Awareness, Self motivation, Self management, Empathy, Other enhancement skills. [Option ID = 3872]
Correct Answer: Self awareness, Self motivation, Self management, Empathy, Social skills. [Option ID = 3869]

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Myelin sheath that surrounds the axon preventing messages from spreading to adjacent axons are produced by [Question ID = 950]
1. Microglia [Option ID = 3799]
2. Nodes of Ranvier [Option ID = 3800]
3. Astrocytes [Option ID = 3798]
4. Oligodendrocytes [Option ID = 3797]
Correct Answer: Oligodendrocytes [Option ID = 3797]
"Leadership motivates the people to work but not for the power or money", this concept is related to [Question ID = 944]
1. Autocratic model [Option ID = 3773]
2. Collegial model [Option ID = 3776]
3. Supportive model [Option ID = 3775]
4. Custodial model [Option ID = 3774]
Correct Answer: Autocratic model [Option ID = 3773]
The ability to view the world around us and process of interpreting information about another person is called [Question ID = 1001]
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1. Imagination [Option ID = 4003]
2. Visualization [Option ID = 4004]
3. Social perception [Option ID = 4002]
4. Person perception [Option ID = 4001]
Correct Answer: Person perception [Option ID = 4001]
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________________________________ is a form of intelligence that is largely inherited ability to think, reason and determines the limits of information-processing. [Question ID = 943]
1. Experiential intelligence [Option ID = 3770]
2. Fluid intelligence [Option ID = 3769]
3. Contextual intelligence [Option ID = 3771]
4. Emotional intelligence [Option ID = 3772]
Correct Answer: Fluid intelligence [Option ID = 3769]
An approach that seeks to identify the unique qualities and special strengths of an organization, which can then be built on to improve performance is
1. Appreciative inquiry [Option ID = 3998]
2. Survey feedback [Option ID = 3999]
3. Sensitivity training [Option ID = 3997]
4. Intergroup development [Option ID = 4000]
Correct Answer: Sensitivity training [Option ID = 3997]

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Sensation seeking personality as suggested by Zuckerman is likely to correlate negatively with [Question ID = 936]
1. Psychoticism [Option ID = 3743]
2. Extraversion [Option ID = 3744]
3. Conscientiousness [Option ID = 3741]
4. Openness to experience [Option ID = 3742]
Correct Answer: Conscientiousness [Option ID = 3741]
The area for region of rejection in one tail of the t-distribution for testing a bi-directional alternate hypothesis at alpha = .05 will be [Question ID = 976]
1. 0.01 [Option ID = 3899]
2. 0.05 [Option ID = 3900]
3. 0.025 [Option ID = 3897]
4. 0.005 [Option ID = 3898]
Correct Answer: 0.025 [Option ID = 3897]
Arvind is extremely competitive, always in a hurry and often irritable (Type A personality). Which of the following forms of aggression is he most likely to exhibit?
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1. Passive aggressive behaviour [Option ID = 3687]
2. Hostile aggression [Option ID = 3685]
3. None of these [Option ID = 3688]
4. Instrumental aggression [Option ID = 3686]
Correct Answer: Hostile aggression [Option ID = 3685]
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A condition of psychological health resulting from integration of conscious and unconscious facets of the personality is [Question ID = 955]
1. Jung's individuation [Option ID = 3820]
2. Roger's fully-functioning person [Option ID = 3818]
3. Maslow's self-actualization [Option ID = 3817]
4. Murray's subsidiation [Option ID = 3819]
Correct Answer: Maslow's self-actualization [Option ID = 3817]
Token Economy is used in [Question ID = 934]
1. Cognitive therapy [Option ID = 3734]
2. Psychodynamic therapy [Option ID = 3736]
3. Transactional analysis [Option ID = 3735]
4. Behavioural therapy [Option ID = 3733]
Correct Answer: Behavioural therapy [Option ID = 3733]

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People who have personality trait of _________________ resist strain reactions when subjected to stressful events more effectively than do people lacking commitment, control and challenge. [Question ID = 1008]
1. Tolerance [Option ID = 4032]
2. Toughness [Option ID = 4029]
3. Strength [Option ID = 4030]
4. Hardiness [Option ID = 4031]
Correct Answer: Toughness [Option ID = 4029]
Leaders while making decisions under high stress situations tend to keep their cool and make better decisions and enhance their effectiveness by relying on:
1. Cultural intelligence [Option ID = 4058]
2. Spiritual intelligence [Option ID = 4059]
3. Mental intelligence [Option ID = 4060]
4. Emotional intelligence [Option ID = 4057]
Correct Answer: Emotional intelligence [Option ID = 4057]
A chemical substance that mimics the action of a neurotransmitter at a receptor site is called [Question ID = 962]
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1. Anatagonist [Option ID = 3845]
2. Agonist [Option ID = 3847]
3. Acetylcholine [Option ID = 3848]
4. Neurotransmitter [Option ID = 3846]
Correct Answer: Anatagonist [Option ID = 3845]
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Hiding one's feelings and engaging in emotional expressions aligned to display rules is known as [Question ID = 1010]
1. Role making [Option ID = 4038]
2. Deep acting [Option ID = 4037]
3. Surface acting [Option ID = 4040]
4. Emotional contagion [Option ID = 4039]
Correct Answer: Deep acting [Option ID = 4037]
The uniqueness of individual experience and behaviour, is a focus of [Question ID = 983]
1. Nomothetic approach [Option ID = 3931]
2. Action research approach [Option ID = 3932]
3. Ideographic approach [Option ID = 3929]
4. Indigenous approach [Option ID = 3930]
Correct Answer: Ideographic approach [Option ID = 3929]

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Children's view of morality in terms of realism and fixed dictates of authority figure is referred to as [Question ID = 929]
1. Ideal reciprocity [Option ID = 3716]
2. Distributive justice [Option ID = 3715]
3. Autonomous morality [Option ID = 3714]
4. Heteronomous morality [Option ID = 3713]
Correct Answer: Heteronomous morality [Option ID = 3713]
Off late, every time Karen had an appointment with her therapist she would come up with an excuse to procrastinate her meetings. According to psychoanalytic theory, she shares an ambivalent and complex relationship. This tendency shown by her can be referred to as [Question ID = 933]
1. Counter-transference [Option ID = 3730]
2. Resistance [Option ID = 3731]
3. Transference [Option ID = 3729]
4. Fixation [Option ID = 3732]
Correct Answer: Transference [Option ID = 3729]
Maheshwari has more awards in badminton to her name under doubles category than her single matches. This could be a result of [Question ID = 938]
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1. De-individuation [Option ID = 3679]
2. Hooliganism [Option ID = 3677]
3. Social facilitation [Option ID = 3680]
4. Social-loafing [Option ID = 3678]
Correct Answer: Hooliganism [Option ID = 3677]
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'Flextime' and 'Job sharing' are examples of ________________________________ to increase motivation. [Question ID = 1011]
1. Revised role expectations [Option ID = 4043]
2. Contemporary organizational structures [Option ID = 4042]
3. New team work models [Option ID = 4044]
4. Alternative work arrangements [Option ID = 4041]
Correct Answer: Alternative work arrangements [Option ID = 4041]
The term ___________ refers to any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period. [Question ID = 958]
1. Amnion [Option ID = 3832]
2. Isotretinoin [Option ID = 3831]
3. Teratogen [Option ID = 3829]
4. Accutane [Option ID = 3830]
Correct Answer: Teratogen [Option ID = 3829]

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Which of the following is NOT a pattern of attachment assessed by Strange Situation and Attachment Q-Sort? [Question ID = 928]
1. Disorganized [Option ID = 3712]
2. Avoidant [Option ID = 3710]
3. Resistant [Option ID = 3709]
4. Interactive [Option ID = 3711]
Correct Answer: Resistant [Option ID = 3709]
Tests that involve comparing an individual's test score with an objectively stated standard of achievement are called [Question ID = 981]
1. Authentic assessments [Option ID = 3921]
2. Criterion-referenced tests [Option ID = 3922]
3. Standardized tests [Option ID = 3923]
4. Norm-referenced tests [Option ID = 3924]
Correct Answer: Authentic assessments [Option ID = 3921]
Excuses, Apologies, and Exemplification are all techniques of [Question ID = 998]
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1. Organizational citizenship [Option ID = 3991]
2. Distributive bargaining [Option ID = 3992]
3. Conflict management [Option ID = 3989]
4. Impression management [Option ID = 3990]

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A self-report questionnaire for assessing aspects of the self-concept is [Question ID = 947]
1. Projective technique [Option ID = 3787]
2. T-sort technique [Option ID = 3786]
3. L-sort technique [Option ID = 3788]
4. Q-sort technique [Option ID = 3785]
Correct Answer: Q-sort technique [Option ID = 3785]
An expression of emotions that is expected to lead to the reduction of disturbing symptoms is [Question ID = 952]
1. Libido [Option ID = 3805]
2. Catharsis [Option ID = 3807]
3. Regression [Option ID = 3806]
4. Denial [Option ID = 3808]
Correct Answer: Libido [Option ID = 3805]
__________________ refers to the idea that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes.
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1. Conservation [Option ID = 3842]
2. Centration [Option ID = 3841]
3. Hierarchical classification [Option ID = 3843]
4. Seriation [Option ID = 3844]
Correct Answer: Centration [Option ID = 3841]
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_______________ is negative reactions to threats to one's personal freedom. [Question ID = 926]
1. Narcissistic rage [Option ID = 3704]
2. Singlism [Option ID = 3701]
3. Reactance [Option ID = 3703]
4. Ego-depletion [Option ID = 3702]
Correct Answer: Singlism [Option ID = 3701]
________________ is the extent to which a group is perceived as being a coherent entity. [Question ID = 925]
1. Entitativity [Option ID = 3697]
2. Ingratiation [Option ID = 3700]
3. Group polarization [Option ID = 3699]
4. Mediating variable [Option ID = 3698]
Correct Answer: Entitativity [Option ID = 3697]

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_____________________ type of child rearing involve low acceptance and involvement with little behavioural control and general indifference to issues of autonomy.
1. Authoritarian parenting [Option ID = 3959]
2. Authoritative parenting [Option ID = 3957]
3. Permissive parenting [Option ID = 3958]
4. Uninvolved parenting [Option ID = 3960]
Correct Answer: Authoritative parenting [Option ID = 3957]
________________ refers to the percentage of instances in which both twins show a trait when it is present in one twin. [QuestionID = 1016]
1. Niche-picking [Option ID = 4064]
2. Concordance effect [Option ID = 4062]
3. Genotype [Option ID = 4063]
4. Canalization [Option ID = 4061]
Correct Answer: Canalization [Option ID = 4061]
_______________ or theory of knowledge, concerns itself with questions about what knowledge is and how it may be validly achieved. [Question ID = 975]
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1. Epistemology [Option ID = 3903]
2. Ontology [Option ID = 3901]
3. Epidemiology [Option ID = 3904]
4. Methodology [Option ID = 3902]
Correct Answer: Ontology [Option ID = 3901]
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________________ is mostly referred to as the way in which an organization transfers its inputs into outputs. [Question ID = 997]
1. Communication [Option ID = 3988]
2. Culture [Option ID = 3986]
3. Environment [Option ID = 3987]
4. Technology [Option ID = 3985]
Correct Answer: Technology [Option ID = 3985]
________________ distribution is positively skewed. [Question ID = 974]
1. F [Option ID = 3893]
2. Bimodal [Option ID = 3896]
3. t [Option ID = 3895]
4. z [Option ID = 3894]
Correct Answer: F [Option ID = 3893]

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______________________ are the more basic traits that underlie aspects of personality that can be seen by others, which form the core of personality. [Question ID = 987]

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