MCQs For NCERT Class 12 Psychology Chapter 2 Self and Personality

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Self and Personality Class 12 MCQ Questions with Answers

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Question. Priya exhibits strong aggressive tendencies but often complains of other people acting in an excessively aggressive way. Identify the defence mechanism.
(a) Rationalisation
(b) Reaction formation
(c) Denial
(d) Projection

Question. In _____________ form of defence mechanism, the person tries to make unreasonable behaviour seem reasonable and acceptable.  

Question. An individual is rejected in a job interview, he claims that his present job is better. He is using _____________
(a) Projection
(b) Regression
(c) Reaction formation
(d) Rationalisation

Question. Value judgment of a person about himself/herself is called _____________.  

Question. A student who believes that he has the ability to excel in sports demonstrates high _____________.
(a) Self regulation
(b) Self efficacy
(c) Self esteem
(d) Self confidence

Question. The notion of self-efficacy is based on
(a) Behaviourist school of thought
(b) Rogers theory
(c) Skinner theory of learning
(d) Bandura’s social learning theory

Question. The procedure to monitor and reduce psychological aspects of stress is called_____________.  

Question. Ability to organise and monitor our own behaviour refers to _____________.  

Question. Learning to delay or defer the gratification of needs is called _____________. 

Question. Delay of gratification is an example of self control. (True/False)    

Question. Checking one’s own impulses and managing oneself is _____________
(a) discretion
(b) caution
(c) self-control
(d) prudence

Question. _____________ is a biologically based characteristic way to reacting. 

Question. Tendency of a person to react to a given situation in a particular way is often termed as _____________.  

Question. A tendency to think that a target person who has one set of positive qualities must also be having other specific qualities is called _____________. 

Question. The method of behavioural analysis is often used in obtaining peer assessment.  

Question. Tendency to place individuals in the extreme positions is called _____________ bias.  

Question. Who among the following psychologists divided all personalities into introverts and extroverts?
(a) Freud
(b) Carl Jung
(c) Adler
(d) Erikson

Question. _____________ personality are more susceptible to problems like coronary heart disease. 

Question. Individuals having high motivation, lacking patience and are always in a hurry are characterised as Type _____________ personality.

Question. Type-D personality is characterised by proneness to _____________.  

Question. Type _____________ personality is more prone to depression:
(a) Type A
(b) Type B
(c) Type C
(d) Type D

Question. A _____________ refers to the characteristics in which one individual differs from another in a relatively permanent and consistent way.
(a) Personality
(b) Trait
(c) Humanistic
(d) concept

Question. You just found a wallet in a movies hall. Which aspect of your personality, according to psychoanalytic theory, would urge you to return it to the owner? 

Question. The instinctual life force that energises the id is called _____________.  

Question. Dismissing anxiety provoking behaviours or thoughts from the unconscious is known as
(a) Projection
(b) Rationalisation
(c) Repression
(d) Denial

Question. _____________ is a way of reducing anxiety by distorting.  

Question. In _____________ defence mechanism people attribute their own traits to others.  

Question. Attributing one’s own traits to others is known as rationalization. (True/False)     

Question. The male child experiences _____________ which involves love for the mother, hostility towards the father.  

Question. Oedipus complex involves love for _____________. (father/mother)   

Question. The children develop sexual feelings towards parents of opposite sex. Freud called these thoughts and feelings in boys the
(a) electra complex
(b) oedipus complex
(c) fixation
(d) identification

Question.  _____________ refers to those attributes of a person that make him/her different from others. 

Question. Aspects of a person that link him to social or cultural group are referred to as _____________ identity.  

Question. A person’s resolution of problems at any stage of development less than adequate demonstrates regression. (True/False) 

Question. _____________ takes a person back to an earlier stage
(a) Fixation
(b) Repression
(c) Regression
(d) Reaction formation

Question. Carl Jung developed the theory of
(a) Individual psychology
(b) Analytical psychology
(c) Social psychology
(d) Psychoanalytic psychology

Question. Adler’s theory is known as _____________. 

Question. _____________ is a method in which a person provides factual information about herself/ himself. 

Question. An _____________ is a face to face interaction between two or more persons to obtain information.  

Question. Participant observation involves becoming an active member of the setting where observation takes place. (True/False)   

Question. Dream interpretation and _____________ are two important methods of eliciting intrapsychic conflicts in psychoanalysis.  

Question. The conscious ego operates according to _____________ principle.  

Question. Naturalistic observation involves making observation in a natural setting. (True/False) 

Question. Tendency of respondent to endorse items in a socially desirable manner is known as:
(a) Acquiescence
(b) Self-report
(c) Social desirability
(d) Halo effect

Question. TAT of personality measurement is a type of
(a) Questionnaire
(b) Self-report inventory
(c) Projective test
(d) Paper-pencil test