All Free Psychology MCQs with Answers

• A. sexual orientation
• B. gender identity
• C. sexual identity
• D. set pointDiscover Lesson Plans

Explanation: Sexual orientation describes the enduring pattern of sexual attraction toward males, females, both, or neither.

• A. ventromedial hypothalamus
• B. anterior commissure
• C. anterior cingulated cortex
• D. lateral hypothalamus

Explanation: Cyber-ostracism is a form of social exclusion, which is associated with increased activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, especially…

• A. Strengths-based selection systems
• B. transformational leadership
• C. 360-degree feedback
• D. flow experience

Explanation: Transformational leaders communicate an inspiring vision and motivate followers to pursue shared goals beyond routine compliance.

• A. may increase towards women
• B. may perpetuate the myth that women enjoy being raped
• C. does both a and b
• D. does neither a nor b

Explanation: Research suggests that aggressive pornography can increase aggression toward women and reinforce the false rape myth that women enjoy or…

• A. Provide employees with relatively easy work assignments
• B. inform employee of the exact deadlines for the completion of work projects
• C. discourage employees from critically discussing controversial company policies
• D. mediate a personal dispute between two argumentative employees

Explanation: A socially oriented leader focuses on relationships, cooperation, and resolving interpersonal problems, making mediation between disputing…

• A. Sexual
• B. achievement
• C. self-actualization
• D. safety
• E. belongingness

Explanation: Belongingness needs involve acceptance, affiliation, and maintaining group relationships, so they can make people conform to peers.

• A. Environmental
• B. Personality
• C. Cognitive
• D. Dispositional

Explanation: Heider's attribution theory contrasts situational causes with dispositional causes, which are explanations based on a person's traits or…

• A. Team process
• B. Psychological safety
• C. Team availability
• D. Groupthink
• E. Team beliefs

Explanation: Psychological safety is the shared feeling that team members can speak up, ask questions and take interpersonal risks without ridicule or…

• A. Organizational psychologists have recently changed their focus on leadership from personality to environmental factors and back to personality again
• B. Charismatic leadership and transformational leadership are opposing leadership styles
• C. Charismatic leaders exercise intense influence over others and have high expectations of their followers' performance, but usually communicate their goals and visions in a confused way
• D. Some studies suggest that transformational leaders inspire dissatisfaction amongst their employees, resulting in lower productivity

Explanation: Leadership theories moved from trait or personality explanations toward situational and environmental explanations, with later renewed…

• A. Social roles
• B. Transactional leadership
• C. Transformational leadership
• D. Hawthorne effect
• E. Formalization

Explanation: Jim Jones used an apparently inspirational vision and intense personal influence to induce followers to commit a catastrophic act…

• A. Role ambiguity
• B. Socialization
• C. Hawthorne effect
• D. Social roles
• E. normative influence

Explanation: Socialization is the process through which people learn the behaviours, values, and emotional responses expected by their society or…

• A. Degree to which individuals are expected to look after themselves versus the group
• B. Degree to which members of a culture feel comfortable in unpredictable situations
• C. Extent of immediate versus delayed gratification of members of a culture
• D. Tendency to apply American theories to non- American situations

Explanation: The West-versus-the-Rest issue warns against assuming that theories developed in American or Western settings apply universally.

• A. United States
• B. German
• C. Japan
• D. France

Explanation: Japan is generally classified as relatively collectivist, emphasizing group membership, duties, and social harmony.

• A. Power distance
• B. Uncertainty avoidance
• C. Conscientiousness
• D. Masculinity/femininity

Explanation: Hofstede’s cultural dimensions include power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity versus femininity.

• A. Group decision- making
• B. Group cohesiveness
• C. Organizational culture
• D. Group effectiveness

Explanation: Egocentricity, group polarization, and production blocking interfere with how groups exchange information and evaluate alternatives…

• A. A worker who is going through a divorce and is unable to complete his job responsibilities
• B. A worker who is having conflict with one of her subordinates
• C. A worker who has just been promoted to supervisor and who is having problems relating to her supervisees
• D. A worker who is being sexually harassed by his co-worker

Explanation: Role conflict occurs when demands from two roles interfere with each other, such as family responsibilities conflicting with job duties.

• A. An employee receiving feedback on her ability to successfully
• B. An employee receiving feedback that has been completed by two supervisors, so as to avoid rating errors
• C. An employee evaluating her own performance and sharing that with her supervisor
• D. An employee receiving feedback from her supervisor, her peer, and her subordinate

Explanation: 360-degree feedback combines evaluations from several directions, commonly a supervisor, peers, subordinates, and sometimes the employee.

• A. Performing
• B. Storming
• C. Forming
• D. Adjourning

Explanation: Storming is the conflict stage in Tuckman’s model, when members challenge one another, compete for leadership, and negotiate the group’s…

• A. Intergroup contact
• B. Decategorization
• C. Recategorization
• D. a and b
• E. b and c

Explanation: Decategorization reduces prejudice by seeing outgroup members as unique individuals, while recategorization places different groups under…

• A. To obtain information
• B. To reduce anxiety
• C. To compare ourselves with similar others
• D. All of the above
• E. None of the above

Explanation: People seek company for several reasons: others provide information, reduce anxiety through support, and offer standards for comparing…