M Phil - Clinical Psychology Question Paper (JEPAG - 240605 - 230335
M Phil - Clinical Psychology Question Paper (JEPAG - 240605 - 230335
JEPAS(PG)-2020
Subject: M. Phil in Clinical Psychology (M. Phil CP)-2020
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1) Emotional responses to a traumatic event are most 6)In how many different ways can the letters of
directly under the control of the the word ‘LEADING' be arranged in such a
a) somatic nervous system way that the vowels always come together?
b) central nervous system
¢} autonomic nervous system. a) 360
d) cerebral cortex b) 480
©)720
2)Withagingthereisadecline of
intelligence, butnotof. intelligence. d) 5040
a) fluid; fixed.
7) A physical stimulus is converted intoa
neural impulse by a process knownas
b) fixed; fluid.
a) Transposition.
¢) fluid: crystallized.
b) Transaction.
d) erystallized; fluid.
c¢) Transduction.
3) Porteus developed an early performance d) Transition.
test based on:
8) A student is trying to solve a problem
a) Bock design without the help of his teacher. The teacher
b) mazes. must
¢) non-verbal cues. a) Advise his student to seck assistance from
d) drawing people. his friends.
b) Be attentive towards his student.
4) The function of mass communicationof ¢} Rebuke his student for his foolish act.
supplying information regarding the d) Appreciate his personal efforts.
processes, issues, events and societal
developments is known as 9) theory maximizedand
a) Content supply. theory minimized the role of the unconscious.
b) Surveillance.
a) Trait; humanistic
c) Gratification.
b) Psychoanalytic; behaviorist
d) Correlation ¢) Psychoanalytic; humanistic.
5) A young child learns that Daddy has two d) Trait; behaviorist.
legs, spectacles, and is a bit balding. One day
on street, while passing a balding man, the 10) Which is not a clinical subscale of MMPI-
child says “Daddy”. This is a case of
a) Using an algorithm. a) Masculinity- feminity.
b) Using a semantic logarithm. b) Psychopathic deviate.
c) Extending a morphene c) Sacial Introversion.
d) Overgeneralizing. d) Schizotypal
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11)Which of the following statements correctly 16) Basic speech sounds are called
describesthe general findings of studies examining a) morphemes.
treatment of childhood anxiety? b) syllables.
a) CBT and sertraline are not significantly c) phonemes.
different in terms of efficacy.
b) CBT improves outcome in around 80% of d) syntax.
cases.
17) Which of the following types of acceptance is
c) CBT and sertraline combined produce the
most critical and pervasive to the long-range
best outcome.
emotional health of a child?
d} All of the above.
a) Peer.
12) The Deviation 1Q is based on thenotion b) Sibling.
of o) Self.
a) delinquency as a factor affectingthe d) Vocational
development of intelligence.
18) Match List- with List-Il and choose the
b) mental age versus chronoclogicalage. correct answer from the code given below-
c) az-score.
d) verbal versus performance scores. List-1
A. Historical method
13) Fromthe perspective
of Erik Erikson, life stages are B. Survey method
important because C. Philosophical method
a) eachinvolves a crisis or dilemma.
D. Experimental method
List-1T
b) each signals a new stage of
cognitive development. 1. Past events
c) eachis an expression of 2. Vision
biclogical programming. 3. Present events
d) their failure to appear is evidence 4. Exceptional cases
of psychopathology. 5. Future action
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31) What proportion of scores in anormal 36) Which ofthe followingis NOT consideredtobea
distribution lie above a z score of 1? cardinalfeature of Borderline Personality Disorder
(BPD)?
a) Eccentric’ behaviour marked by odd
a) 50 percent. patterns of thinking and communication
b) 16 percent. b)An er\durin? pattern of instability in
c) 25 percent. personal relationships.
¢) A lack of a well-defined and stable self-image.
d) 10 percent.
d) Regular and unpredictable changes in mood
32) The so-called critical period in prenatal 3T)tch List-I with List-11 and select the correct
development is the
answer from the code given below:
a) Germinal stage.
b) Embryonic stage. List-1 (Interviews)
c) Zygotic stage. List-I1 (Meaning)
d) Mucotic stage. A. Structured interviews
1. Greater flexibility approach
33) The somatasensory area of cortexis B. Unstructured interviews
responsible for our sense of 2. Attention on the gquestions to beanswered
C. Focused interviews
a) Taste. 3. Individual life experience
b) Sight. D. Clinical interviews 4. Pre-
c) Hearing determined question
d) Touch. 5. Non-
directive
34) Which of the following is the most important a)A-4.B-1, C-2.D-3
characteristic of rescarch procedure?
b)A-2. B-4, C-1. D-3
a) Communicability.
b) Generalizability. ©) A-5.B-2, C-4.D-1
¢) Replicability. d)A-1, B-3, C-5. D4
d) Objectivity. 38) What hormone, secreted by the pineal gland,
increases when periods of darkness begin
35) Which of the following is the most important and promotes feelings of drowsiness?
dimension in the reference to the qualitative a) Testosterone.
rescarch?
a) Newness and originality. b) Metatonin.
) Clearity on the basis of objectivity. ¢) Cortisol
) Technical practicability. d) Epinephrine.
) Contextual relevance.
39) Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many
words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be
formed?
a) 210
b) 1050.
¢) 25200.
)21400
40) During which stage of sleep are EEG
recordings most lar to those during alert,
awake periods, giving this stage the informal
name “paradoxical sleep”?
a) Stage 1.
b) Stage 2.
c) Stage 3.
d) REM slecp.
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42) Group therapy can be advantageous when an 47) Mediated intra-personal communicationcan
individual: be seen in writing-
a) May need to work out their problems in a) Letter to friends.
the presence of others (e.g. in the case of
emotional problems relating to b) A personal diary.
relationships, feelings of isolation, ¢} A memo to subordinates.
loneliness and rejection).
d) Reports for internal circulation inan
b) May need comfort and support frem others. arganization.
c) May acquire therapeutic benefit
from observing and watching
others. 48) Which of the following has been associated with
d) All of the above conductdisorderinadolescence?
a) Criminal behaviour leading to a prison
43) Any obstacle in communication process is sentence.
catted? b) Psychosis.
a) Encroachment c) Antisocial personality disorder.
b) Plumpness. d) All of the above
c) Naoise.
d) Inner process. 49) Which of the following is false-
social anxiety-
‘44) Which of the following is not information provided a)is linked to genetic factor.
in DSM-IV-TR? b} is linked to over protective parenting.
a) Essentiat features of the disorder. ¢} is more likely to manifest in adult hood.
b) Associated features. d) may results from early experience of shame.
¢) A list of symptoms that must be present
for diagnosis. 50)
Of the following individuals, the one who is
d) Information on treatment options. credited as being one of the founders of
social psychology is
45) Mommy show her boy five black and three a) Norman Triplett.
white marbles and ask him " Are there more b) Kenneth Gergen
marbles or more black marbles?" he replied
¢) David Sears
"More black ones!"......... according to
d) Harry Triandis
Piaget, child is
a) Pre-operational stage.
by Concrete operational stage.
¢) Formal operational stage.
d) None of the above,
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51) The auditory nerve, which transmits 56) Delusions shared hetween two closely connected
information from the ear to the brain, is an persons is also known as
example of an a) Derealization.
a) Afferentnerve. b) Déjit vu.
b) Efferentnerve. ¢) Deja entendu
¢) Autonomic d) Folic a deux.
d) Analgesic
57) Effectiveness of teaching depends on
52) Which of the following statements is correct? a) Qualification of teacher.
b) Personality of teacher.
a) Inrescarch, objectives can be wordedin c) Handwriting of teacher.
question form.
b) In research, objectives can be wordedin
d) Subject understanding of teacher.
statement form.
¢) Objectives are to be stated in chapter I of 58) Which one of the following measuresis
the thesis. to make research more ethical ?
d) All of the above, a) Informed consent.
b) Pilot study.
53) According to Gould, a “crisis of questions, " where
an individual ponders the meaning of life, occurs c) Government regulation.
during d) All the above.
a) adolescence.
by early adulthood 58) Functional analysis is a therapy based on:
c) middle aduithood a) Classical conditioning
d) old age b) Humanistic principles
c) Operant conditioning
54) Which one of the following options are the d) Psychodynamic principles
main tasks of research in modern society?
60) Which of the following changes is not caused
i. T keep pace with the advancementin y of the sympathetic nervous
knowledge
a) Dilation of pupil.
ii. To discover new things b) Decrease in digestive secretions
¢) Acceleration of heart action.
iii. To write a critique on the earlier writings d) ) All of the above are caused by activity of the
sympathetic nervous system.
iv. To systematically examine andecritically
analyze the investigations/sources with
objectivity
a) iv.il
by ikl
) it
q) i
55) A person who has an extreme lack of self-
confidence and who allows others to run his or her
lifeis saidto havea(n) personality.
) antisocial
) narcissistic
) paranoid
)} dependent.
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61) In south and east Asia, aman may experience 66) An elderly acquaintance of yours has
Koro, whichis suffered from partial blindness since
a) anxiety about his penis receding into his she had a stroke. Apparently the stroke
body
damaged her
b) insanity
a) occipital lobe.
c) depression
d) schizophrenia b) parietal lobe.
c) temporal lobes.
62) Whichofthe following statements is TRUE? d) reticular formation.
a) Schizophrenia makes people violent. 67) Some proverbs/idioms are given below
b) I you hear voices or hold delusional beliefs together with their meanings. Choose the
you have schizophrenia. correct meaning of proverbiidiom, If there is
¢} Siblings of people who are diagnosed no correct meaning given,
with schizophrenia are more likely to To keeps one's temper
suffer mental health problems in their a) Tobecome hungry.
lifetime.
d) People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia b) Tobe in gocd mocd
are more likely to commit murder than c) Topreserve ones energy.
their non- schizophrenic peer group. d) Tobe aloof from
63) Identify the TRUE statement :
68) Projective tests originated from
a) The main purpose of training is to equip
a) Freud's idea that all behaviour was
candidate with specific skill
caused by unconscious motivational
b) Teaching can be done without effects.
indoctrination but indoctrination is not
b) Jung’s theory of psychological types.
possible without teaching
c) the attempt to develop tests that did not
c) Instruction does not involve an rely on language.
interaction between the teacher and the
d) accidentally spilling ink on a test booklet.
learner.
d) All the above. 69) Which of the following is not a characteristic
research?
64) The MMPImeasures which ofthe following?
a) Research is systematic.
a) Mood.
b) Research is not a process.
b) Physical concerns. ¢) Research is problem-oriented.
c) Social attitudes d) Research is not inactive.
dj All of the above.
70) Pia secs Arsi make a strong specch against
65) In which of the foltowing ways a theory is not legalized gambling, She learns that Arsi had
different from a belief? free choice to make a speech on any issue she
a) Antecedent-consequent. chose, and Pi nows that most of the
students in Arsi's class are in favor of
b) Acceptability. legalized gambling. Pia infers that Arsi truly
c) Verifiability. is opposed to
d} Demonstratability.
legalized gambling. This is most consistent
with
a) the self-fulfilling prophecy
b) the correspondent inference theory.
) the fundamental attribution error
d) the false-consensus effect
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71) Counterconditioning is an exposure therapy 76) Which ofthe following defines Beck’s cognitive
technique whichinvolves: triad?
a) Learning that one negative event may be a) Negative beliefs about self, world and future.
linked to another
b) Exposing the client to the feared stimulus b} Negative beliefs about self, world and others.
c) Learning that an event or situation is no c) Negative beliefs about self, others and future
longer threatening d) Negative beliefs about present, past, and
d) Helping the client to see that their future.
behaviour is counterproductive
77) isthestudy ofthemeaningofwords
72) One of the essential characteristicsof
and language
research is
a) Linguistics.
a) Replicability. b} Encoding.
b) Generalizability.
¢) Semantics.
) Usability. d) Syntax.
d) Objectivity.
78) Type A and Type B Personality are associated with
73) Life time prevalence rate of ocdis — which personality inventory?
a) 25% a) Self-Directed Search
by 1%. b) Jenkins Activity Survey
c) Myers-Briggs
c) 4.5%.
d) less than 1%
d) MMPI-2
79) Thefirstintelligence testwas developed by
74) Faulty learninginvoives:
a) Acquiring psychological disorders through a) Binet and Simon
poor school attendance.
b) Acquiring psychological disorders through b) Spearman
low self-esteem. c) Stanford and Binet.
c) Acquiring psychological disorders by
exposure to aversive stimuli d) Terman and Wechsler.
d) Allof the above
80) Find the odd man out
75) Which of the following bodily patterns does 3,5,11,14,17, 21
not typically accompany dreaming activity? a)21
b)17.
a) A distinctive EEG pattern. c) 14
b) Rapid eye movements., d)3
c) High levels of cerebral blood level.
d) Higher levels of general muscleactivity.
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81) Pick out the most effective word(s} from the 86) To teach a child to eat spagheG, you would
given words to fill in the blank to make the reinforceinitial responses such as holding the fork
sentence meaningfully complete. andthenincreasingly closer approximationsto the
Fate smiles........ those who untiringly grapple finalresponse.
The procedureisknownas:
with stark realities of life.
a) with a) Counter conditioning
b) over. b) Successive approximations.
¢) on. ¢) Shaping.
d) round d) Chaining
82) The Stroop Color-Word Interference Testis usually 87) Which of the following expresses a correct
used as a test of sequence in cognitive development?
a) verbal fluency. a) Voluntary movement, intuitivethought,
b) visual perception
45 object permanence
c) memory. by Concrete operations. mental representation,
information processing.
d) attention.
¢) Mental representation, symbolic thought,
intuitive thought.
83) The correct sequence of stages of
research is d) Censervation, object permanence, intuitive
thought.
a) Problem selection, datacollection,
statement of hypothesis. 88) If two presynaptic neurons coincidentally
b) Data collection, problem selection, stimulate a postsynaptic neuron, their
combined effects on that neuron are
statement of hypothesis, data analysis.
described by a process called
c) Problem selection, hypothesis a) Soma summation.
statement, data collection, data
b) Temporal summation.
analysis.
¢) Cholinergic summation.
d) Hypothesis statement, problem
d) Spatial summation.
selection, data collection, data analysis.
89) Which of the following is the highest level of
84) Newborns
cognitive ability?
a) Prefer facial images to mixed, facial
elements.
a) Evaluating
b) Habituate almost instantly to novelstimuli b) Knowing
c) Have 20/40 eyesight. ¢) Understanding
d) Have depth perception. d) Analysing
85) Separation anxiety occurs when the newborn 90) Memories outside
of conscious awareness are
is called
a) 11w 2 monthsold. a) proactive memories
0) 3to4 months old b) reactive memories.
¢) 810 15 months old c) explicit memories
d) 24 to 30 months old. d) implicit memories.
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91) White matter is primarily com posed of 96) Token Economy is an influential intervention based
upon:
a) Classical conditioning
a) Myelinated axons. b) Implicit learning
b) Myelinated dendrites. c) Operant conditicning
) Unmyelinated axons. d) Client centred therapy
d) Unmyelinated dendrites.
97) Incidence of dementiain 65 years old is approx.-
92) Which of the following statements about the
typical pattern of sleep cycle is false? 2)0.7%.
a) The first stage of sleep is Stage 1. by 17%
b) Infants spend more time in REM sleep than ©) 37%
do adults. d) 27%.
¢) Wemost ofien naturally awakenduring
Stage 4 sleep. 98) Type I error occurs when
d) Near the end of a good night’s sleep, a &) When a false n ¢ oceurs.
person spends most of his or her time in b) When a false positive accurs
Stages 1, 2 and REM.
<) Both the above
93) ‘Ethics’ can be defined asthe d) None of the above.
formulation of principles to
99) In the carly work of Hartshorne and May,
a) reduce inappropriatebehaviour. designed to assess children’s moralbehavior,
b) punish inappropriatebehaviour. it was found that
¢) reinforce appropriatebehaviour. a) Moral children always adhere to generally
d) guide behaviour recognized moral standards.
b) Children seem to apply situational morality,
94) Which one of the following helongs to the acting differently in separate situations
category of homogenous data? involving the same moral principle
a) Multi-storeyed houses in a colony. ¢) Moral children never cheat,
b) Trees in a garden. d) Boys generally have stronger consciences
than girls.
¢) Vehicular traffic on a highway.
d) Student population io a class. 100) The Whitehall study indicated an association
between coronary heart disease and which of
95) A failure to develop a consistent identity results in the following:
a) Lack of training for the job
isolation. b) Low job control
inferiority. c) Anger management issues.
role confusion. d) Depression.
stagnation.