Class 11 Psychology Practice Questions

Q1. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of: 🧠

1. Behaviour and mental processes
2. Society and culture
3. The brain and nervous system
4. Diseases and disorders

Q2. Who is considered the father of modern psychology? 🧠

1. John B. Watson
2. Sigmund Freud
3. William James
4. Wilhelm Wundt

Q3. Classical conditioning is associated with which psychologist? 🧠

1. B.F. Skinner
2. Ivan Pavlov
3. Abraham Maslow
4. Sigmund Freud

Q4. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs has how many levels? 🧠

1. 3
2. 5
3. 4
4. 6

Q5. Sensation refers to the process of: 🧠

1. Interpreting stimuli
2. Receiving raw information from sense organs
3. Making decisions based on past experiences
4. Storing information in memory

Q6. The part of the mind that is not directly accessible to awareness is the: 🧠

1. Preconscious mind
2. Subconscious mind
3. Unconscious mind
4. Conscious mind

Q7. Which method involves observing subjects in their natural settings? 🧠

1. Experiment
2. Naturalistic Observation
3. Case Study
4. Survey

Q8. Perception differs from sensation in that perception involves: 🧠

1. Reflex actions
2. Raw data collection
3. Interpretation and meaning-making
4. Muscle movement

Q9. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was first developed by: 🧠

1. Robert Sternberg
2. Charles Spearman
3. Howard Gardner
4. Alfred Binet

Q10. Short-term memory can hold approximately how many items at once? 🧠

1. 20 ± 5
2. 7 ± 2
3. 3 ± 1
4. 12 ± 3

Q11. Psychology is the scientific study of:

1. Behaviour and mental processes
2. Only dreams
3. Only the brain's anatomy
4. Only emotions

Q12. Who is regarded as the father of psychoanalysis?

1. Ivan Pavlov
2. Sigmund Freud
3. B. F. Skinner
4. Jean Piaget

Q13. An intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation is called a:

1. Mood
2. Motive
3. Phobia
4. Perception

Q14. The lifelong process of learning the norms and values of one's society is:

1. Cognition
2. Adaptation
3. Maturation
4. Socialisation