Name:___________________________________________ Student ID:___________________________________

Newports Institute of Communications and Economics

M I D T E R M E
Program:
Course Title:

Psychology

A M I N A T I
Semester: Fall 2015

Instructor Name: Rehan Aziz

Time Allowed: 01 Hour 30 minutes

Date:

Total Marks:

Passing Marks:

30

Instructions:
1. Start each question from new page.
2. Exchange of stationary and calculator is not allowed.
3. Use of Programmable calculator and mobile phone or mobile phone as a calculator is not allowed.

SECTION A
Q1. Choose the correct options. (Marks 10)
1. A psychologist interested in studying the mental processes involved in learning and
memory is focusing on the __________ perspective
a) Developmentalb) cognitive c) biological
2. Community psychologists are interested in the __________ of mental illness.
a) Treatment

b) prevention c) analysis

3. 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

4. Which of these would be an example of consciousness?

a) Being aware of the silky, cold taste of ice cream
b) Being influenced by impulses outside of your awareness
c) Blinking when a baseball comes at your face
5. Six-year-old Jean hits another child and steals the child's lunch money. A psychologist
who takes a psychodynamic approach would suggest that Jean
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a) Learned that hitting someone would result in a reward.

b) Has an unconscious drive for aggression, causing her to act out.
c) Asserted herself, an example of bettering herself as a person.
6. Which approach to psychology emphasizes decision making, problem solving, and
information processing?
a) Behavioral

b) Evolutionary

c)Cognitive

7. Dr. Tingley is investigating the question of how negotiators from different countries react
to threats during the negotiation process. Dr. Tingley is engaged in __________ research.
a) cross-cultural b) monocultural

c) subcultural

8. Shari read 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 was using
a) hypothesis generation

b) critical thinking c) correlational research.

9. Jason answered a series of vocabulary and reading comprehension questions on a web

site. When he finished, the site gave him a rating of intelligence. "I don't think that test
really measured intelligence," thought Jason. Jason is questioning the test's
a) Consistency b) validity

c) reliability.

10. When psychologists observe that two variables, such as longer school days and improved
student performance, are correlated, they know that
a) one of these factors is the independent variable and the other one is the dependent variable.
b) changing one variable (length of the school day) will cause a change in the other variable (student
performance).
c) there is some relationship between the two variables, but there is no way to know for sure why the
relationship exists.

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SECTION B
Attempt all questions. Each question carries 05 marks.
Q2. What is a scientific method in research? How many steps does it involve?
Q3. Define psychology. Describe some major branches of psychology.
Q4. Name some schools of psychology. Briefly explain any two of them.
Q5. What is a psychological disorder? How do psychologists and psychiatrists
classify them?

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