PSY101 Midterm MCQs 2025

Q1. Who suggested that most human behavior is learned by Observation?

1. Carl Jung
2. Carl Rogers
3. George A.Kelly
4. Albert Bandura

Correct answer: Albert Bandura

Q2. All of the followings are the areas of interest for Behaviorists EXCEPT:

1. Specific measurable responses
2. Observable/ overt behavior
3. Control behavior by using environmental stimuli
4. Unconscious desires

Correct answer: Unconscious desires

Q3. Who gave the concept of birth order?

1. Carl Gustav Jung
2. Erik Erikson
3. Alfred Adler
4. Sigmund Freud

Correct answer: Alfred Adler

Q4. Who among the followings is known as “father of Greek medicines”?

1. Alcameon
2. Socrates
3. Plato
4. Aristotle

Correct answer: Alcameon

Q5. Observing behavior as it happens in real-life natural settings without imposing laboratory controls is known as:

1. Psychometric approach
2. Naturalistic observation method
3. Survey method
4. Experimental method

Correct answer: Naturalistic observation method

Q6. According to Wundt; which of the following is the subject matter of psychology?

1. Unconsciousness desires
2. Immediate experience
3. Mediate experience
4. Reinforcement

Correct answer: Immediate experience

Q7. Humanistic approach emphasizes all of the followings EXCEPT:

1. Potential for self-fulfillment
2. Individual’s freedom in directing his future
3. Capacity for personal growth
4. Unconscious aggressive desires

Correct answer: Unconscious aggressive desires

Q8. Dr.Usman studies the causes, diagnosis, treatments and prevention of mental illnesses. Which type of psychologist is Dr. Usman?

1. Health psychologist
2. Developmental psychologist
3. Forensic psychologist
4. Clinical psychologist

Correct answer: Clinical psychologist

Q9. In which of the following therapeutic technique, patient is asked to talk freely and say whatever comes to his/her mind without considering whether or not it is relevant, rational or sensible?

1. Free Association
2. Aversive Therapy
3. Flooding
4. Systematic Desensitization

Correct answer: Free Association

Q10. Who among the following is known as “Father of Greek Medicine”?

1. Plato
2. Alcameon
3. Aristotle
4. Socrates

Correct answer: Alcameon

Q1. Which of the following psychologist refers that environment and external world shapes and determines behavior?

1. J.
2. Watson
3. Carl Rogers
4. Carl Jung
5. Sigmund Freud

Q2. Which of the following type of observation is involved in which the observer becomes a part of the situation?

1. Direct observation
2. Natural observation
3. Participant observation
4. Subjective observation

Correct answer: Participant observation

Q3. According to Muslim philosophers, at which stage the body and soul are in complete harmony?

1. Nafs-e-Liwama
2. Nafs-e-Mutmaina
3. Nafs-e-Natiqua
4. Nafs-e-Ammaraa

Correct answer: Nafs-e-Mutmaina

Q4. Who formulated the Law of Effect?

1. Pavlov
2. Kohler
3. Kurt Lewin
4. Thorndike

Correct answer: Thorndike

Q5. Which of the following is a relatively permanent change in behavior that takes place as a result of practice and/ or experience?

1. Introspection
2. Learning
3. Emotions
4. Perception

Correct answer: Learning

Q6. Which of the following structure of personality operates under the “reality principle”?

1. Super-ego
2. Ego
3. Conscience
4. Id

Correct answer: Ego

Q7. Which of the following measures “how strongly two variables are related to each other”?

1. Experimental effect
2. Dependent variable
3. Independent variable
4. Correlation

Correct answer: Correlation