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1. Examination:Ph.D. AppliedPsychology
Section 1 - Section 1
Question No.1 4.00
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Perceving a rope as a snake is
Perception
Sensation
Hallusination
Illusion
Question No.2 4.00
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_________ represents a general principle that guides problem solving, though it does not guarantee
a correct solution.
Insight
Trial and error
Algorithm
Heuristics
Question No.3 4.00
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If Road is coded as WTFI, what is the code for BEAT
GJFY
ABCD
DEFG
HIGZ
Question No.4 4.00
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In a study of gender effects on career choice among emerging adults in a government college , the
independent variable is ___
Age
Type of college
Gender
Career choice
Question No.5 4.00
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When the bus was at full speed, its brakes failed and an accident was _______
inevitable
infallible
undeniable
essential
Question No.6 4.00
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The title of a formal, written research report should be about ______ words in length.
5-15
10-20
5-10
10-12

2. Question No.7 4.00
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Sampling method that focuses on important subpopulations and allows use of random sampling
techniques for different subpopulations is _________
Stratified sampling
Cluster sampling
Quota sampling
Accidental sampling
Question No.8 4.00
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People in the age group of 40 to 50 years are more likely to purchase ice cream and are more likely
to purchase it in large amounts than are members of any other age group. The general perception that
teenagers eat more ice cream than adults must, therefore, be incorrect.
The argument is flawed primarily because the author
depends on popular belief rather than on documented research findings
does not specify the precise amount of ice cream purchased by any demographic group
fails to distinguish between purchasing and consuming
discusses ice cream rather than more nutritious and healthful foods
Question No.9 4.00
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Testing hypothesis is _______
Data analysis
Data preparation
Inferential statistics
Descriptive & statistics
Question No.10 4.00
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Which of the following statements about the qualitative-quantitative debate is incorrect?
Positivism stresses the importance of observable and observed facts in the accumulation of
knowledge.
Positivism applies to quantitative methods.
Qualitative researchers often fail to recognize positivism as the epistemological basis of their
work.
It became equated with relatively crude and quantified methods.
Question No.11 4.00
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Which of the following is not an axis Idisorder?
Schizotypal Personality disorder
Schizophrenia
Bipolar disorder
Anxiety disorder

3. Question No.12 4.00
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According to Csikszentmihalyi, ______ is the outcome of High challenge level when there is low skill
level?
Boredom
Apathy
Anxiety
Arousal
Question No.13 4.00
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Vicarious trauma is,
Reliving trauma
Witnessing a trauma
Social learning of trauma situation
Emotional residue of trauma exposure
Question No.14 4.00
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A method by which an individual’s expectations about others or themselves eventually cause actions
in ways that confirm those expectations
Counterfactual thinking
Belief perseverance
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Correspondence bias
Question No.15 4.00
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Use of seatbelts and bike helmets is considered as _____
Secondary prevention
Zero-order prevention
Primary prevention
Tertiary prevention.
Question No.16 4.00
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Which part of the brain controls eating, drinking, body temperature and provides a link between the
brain and the endocrine system?
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Temporal lobes
Hypothalamus
Question No.17 4.00
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We’re late again for the test, _______?
aren’t we?
are we?
isn’t it?
is it?

4. Question No.18 4.00
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A man makes 150 pots per minute. If 30 pots are packed in a case how many cases will be made
ready by the Man in one hour?
200
1000
300
250
Question No.19 4.00
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Which one of the following does not come under prevention act of human trafficking in India
Awareness generation and legal literacy on economic rights
Addressing culturally sanctioned practices like the system of devadasis, jogins, bhavins etc.
Anti-poverty schemes such as Swadhar, Swayamsidha, Swa-Shakti, Swawlamban, Balika
Samridhi Yojana etc. to vulnerable sections.
HIV/AIDS awareness program
Question No.20 4.00
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Who argued that “Inner most core of human personality is forward moving, socialized, rational and
realistic”?
Rogers
Jung
Freud
Adler
Question No.21 4.00
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Freud’s pleasure principle and Maslow’s hierarchical needs model represent _______ approach to
happiness.
Need and goal satisfaction theories
Instinct theories
Process theories
Genetic theories.
Question No.22 4.00
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Integral yoga describes yoga as
Union of universe
Group of physical practices or disciplines
Methodized effort towards self-perfection
Patanjali sutras
Question No.23 4.00
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Viktor Frankl is the founder of _________
Logo-therapy
Gestalt therapy
Behaviour Therapy
Person-centered therapy

5. Question No.24 4.00
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Study the following information carefully and answer the question below it
The Director of an MBA college has decided that six guest lectures on the topics of Motivation,
Decision Making, Quality Circle, Assessment Centre, Leadership and Group Discussion are to be
organised on each day from Monday to Sunday.
(i) One day there will be no lecture (Saturday is not that day), just before that day Group Discussion
will be organised.
(ii) Motivation should be organised immediately after Assessment Centre.
(iii) Quality Circle should be organised on Wednesday and should not be followed by Group
Discussion
(iv) Decision Making should be organised on Friday and there should be a gap of two days between
Leadership and Group Discussion
On which day the lecture on Leadership will be organised?
Monday
Saturday
Thursday
Tuesday
Question No.25 4.00
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______ is a “sequence of remedial actions that individuals undertake to rectify perceived ill-health
Health hazardous behavior
Health Awareness
Health Behavior
Health seeking behavior
Question No.26 4.00
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Find the odd one out?
Thrive
Renovate
Flourish
Blossom
Question No.27 4.00
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The term statistical significance refers to
inference from representative of a normal population
analysis with positive results
inference that the results are unlikely to be due to chance
significance of the test used
Question No.28 4.00
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As a response, forgiveness may be understood as
Pardoning and forgetting
Condoning and denial
Reconciliation
Prosocial change

6. Question No.29 4.00
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KAIZEN is a Japanese term which can be interpreted as ______________
TQC
TQM
Quality circles
Continuous improvement
Question No.30 4.00
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Sex ratio of India according to 2011 census is
940F - 1000 M
930 F - 1000 M
960 F - 1000 M
950F - 1000 M
Question No.31 4.00
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Variability refers to
Exact mid point of the distribution
Spread of a scores around their central tendency
Convergence of scores towards a line
Geometrical distribution of the scores around he central point
Question No.32 4.00
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Ten most common positive emotion as joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement,
inspiration, awe and love was identified by
James Lange
Schachter- Singer
Frederikson
Cannon Bard
Question No.33 4.00
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Which of the following is against the research ethics
Debriefing
Confidentiality
Deception
Informed consent
Question No.34 4.00
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Individual’s behavior both influences and influenced by personal factors and the social environmental
is called______
Self-actualization
Reciprocal determinism
Observational learning
Reinforcement

7. Question No.35 4.00
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Which of the following leadership style creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the
end goal of developing followers into leaders?
Charismatic leadership
Transformational leadership
Bureaucratic leadership
Autocratic leadership
Question No.36 4.00
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According Adler, ____ is a central personality dynamic reflecting the growth and forward movement of
life?
Inferiority complex
Collective unconscious
Fictional finalism
Defense mechanism
Question No.37 4.00
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Health psychology focuses on how
Psychological foactors influence on health and illness
Social factors influences on health and illness
Biological factors influences on health and illness
Bilogical, Social and Psycholgocial factors influence on health and illness
Question No.38 4.00
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Teaching the skills, knowledge and competencies that are needed for employees to perform a
specific job within the workplace and work environment is called
Lecture method
T-group
Off-the job training
On-the Job training
Question No.39 4.00
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Suppose you are tossing a fair coin and it comes up heads on the first five tosses. The probability of it
coming up heads again on the sixth toss is
1:6
1:36
1:2
1:180

8. Question No.40 4.00
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A systematic forecasting method that involves structured interaction among a group of experts on a
subject without disclosing the identity is called________.
Focus group method
Interacting group method
Nominal group method
Delphi technique
Question No.41 4.00
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Which of these measures can be used to present dispersion of data?
Mean, median and Mode
SD, IQR and Range
Median, Alpha and SD
Range, Median and Deviation
Question No.42 4.00
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Select the Pair that best respresents the relationship that is given in the question:
Slapstick:Laughter
Clown: Comical
Horror:Fear
Satire: Sarcasm
Mimicry:Laughter
Question No.43 4.00
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Rahul was working in the farm and saw a snake. This lead to widening of pupils, increase in heartbeat
and sweating. This indicates the activation of ______
Sympathetic nervous system
Autonomic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
Central nervous system
Question No.44 4.00
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Study the following information carefully and answer the question below it:
P, Q, R, S T went on a picnic. P is son of Q but Q is not the father of P. R is the son of S, who is the
brother of P. T is the wife of S.
How is P related to S?
Brother
Father
Nephew
None of these
Question No.45 4.00
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This pup is very naughty. It is always _____some mischief or the other.
out for
up at
in for
up to

9. Question No.46 4.00
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Which of the following school of thought rejects the existence of permanent, unchanging soul?
Sankhya
Buddhist
Vedanta
Yoga
Question No.47 4.00
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Which one is not a projective test
Thematic aperception test
Draw a person
Sentence completion test
letter concellation test
Question No.48 4.00
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Blood test failing to detect the disease it was designed to detect, is an example of what?
Type Ierror
Null hypothesis testing
Type IIerror
Chance factor
Question No.49 4.00
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A Systematic way of determining the value/worth of a job in relation to other jobs in an organization is
called_____________
Job specification
Job enlargement
Job rotation
Job evaluation
Question No.50 4.00
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Reflex are controlled by
ANS
Brain
CNS
Spinal cord
Question No.51 4.00
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Which of the following is not a Psychosomatic disease
Peptic ulcer
Bronchial asthama
Rheumatoid arthritis
Venseral disease

10. Question No.52 4.00
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Conduct disroder usually diagnosed in
Adolescence and middle age
Adolescence only
Childhood and adolescence
Adolescence and old age
Question No.53 4.00
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Psychoanalytic theory and personality was propounded by
Jung
Freud
Eysinck
Adler
Question No.54 4.00
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Plagiarism is
Use of a writer's ideas without giving due credit
Originality
Referring and quoting too many authors
Data manipulation
Question No.55 4.00
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Memories that are outside of conscious awareness are called
Retroactive memories
Explicit memories.
Implicit memories
Proactive memories
Question No.56 4.00
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____________ is the process of estimating the future human resource requirement of right quality
and right number
Human resource accounting
Human Resource Planning
Job description
Job analysis
Question No.57 4.00
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The standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or group.
Life style
Self-concept
Quality of life
Health promoting behaviour

11. Question No.58 4.00
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Health seeking behaviour defiend as sequence of remredial actions that individual under takes to
Perceived psycholgocial health
Perceived psycho- social health
Perceived ill health
Perceived social health
Question No.59 4.00
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Which of the following act is not considered as corporal punishment?
banging head against the wall
Scapegoat
Remedial class
Humiliation
Question No.60 4.00
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Find the odd one out?
Birds : Horticulture
Fish : Pisiculture
Silkworm: Serculture
Bees : Apiculture
Question No.61 4.00
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Exhausted: Tired
Arrogant: Docile
Progressive: Regressive
Considerate: Rude
Depressed : Sad
Question No.62 4.00
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Contemporary brain theory is _____.
Materialistic
Mentalistic
Sequential Programming
Non-materialistic
Question No.63 4.00
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Multimodal therapy is proposed by________
Aaron Beck
Fritz Perls
Irvin Yalom
Arnold Lazarus

12. Question No.64 4.00
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Trait theory of personality was propounded by
Cattell
Allport
Freud
Eysinck
Question No.65 4.00
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Leadership traits can be assessed best by
Interview
Conference method
Role playing techniques
Projective techniques
Question No.66 4.00
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Choose the best antonym of the italicized word.
There has always been a feeling of rancour between the two families.
friendliness
suspicion
competition
rivalry
Question No.67 4.00
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Which of the following is the main, comprehensive criminal code of India?
Juvenile Justice Act
Criminal law code
Indian Penal code
Indian Evidence Act and the Code
Question No.68 4.00
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We must always try to adapt ourselves _________ our circumstances.
with
in
to
by
Question No.69 4.00
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When neither experimenter nor subject knows who is assigned to the experimental and control
groups, it is called ______
Placebo effect
Double-blind technique
Type Ierror
Single-Blind technique

13. Question No.70 4.00
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People will ___________ when they perceive it as a threat.
Understand change
Make change
Resist change
Accept Change
Question No.71 4.00
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Which of the following is most common psychiatric diagnosis in HIV- infected (AIDS) individuals
Dementia
Adjustment reaction
Delirium
Paranoid psychosis
Question No.72 4.00
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Which of the following act replaced the Indian lunacy act?
PWD 1995
Mental health act 1987
Well being act 1990
Mental Health act 1993
Question No.73 4.00
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Idon’t care if she comes to my house or not.
The underlined word is a
gerund
pronoun
conjunction
verb
Question No.74 4.00
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Which of the following is not a specific objective of Integrated Child Protection scheme
to enhance capacities at all systems and persons involved service
to report child marriages and arrange family planning programs
to raise public awareness about child rights and child protection services
to institutionalize essential services and strength structures
Question No.75 4.00
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When an individual displays a deficit in the comprehension of speech involving difficulties in
recognizing spoken words and converting thoughts into words is known as
Thought disorder
Prosopagnosia
Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia

14. Question No.76 4.00
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Which of the following part of the brain functions as a switching station between STM and LTM
Engram switching center
Cerebral cortex.
RS
Hippocampus
Question No.77 4.00
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A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used.
Structural fixedness
Limitational fixedness
Functional fixedness
Traditional fixedness
Question No.78 4.00
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Statement: The Company has recently announced a series of incentives to the employees who are
punctual and sincere.
Assumptions:
I.Those who are punctual will get motivated.
II. The Productivity of the company may increase.
If only assumption IIis implicit
If neither Inor IIis implicit
If both Iand IIare implicit
If only assumption Iis implicit
Question No.79 4.00
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What is the antithesis of Positive Psychology?
Abandoning the language of the illness ideology
Emphasizing human strengths
DSM’s categorizing and pathologizing of human experience
Reconstruction of our views of psychological health
Question No.80 4.00
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Replication of an experiment means,
Reanalyzing the study using renewed design
Repeating the original experiment
Reporting similar findings.
Reanalyzing the data using qualitative methods
Question No.81 4.00
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Social Impact Evaluation (SIE) is carried out ____
To evaluate the efficacy of R&R Plan implementation
To extend interactions with the project affected persons
To create a baseline data of prospective Project Affected Persons
To assess the impact of the project on the society

15. Question No.82 4.00
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The personality aspect that is greatly disturbed in schizophrenia is the
Id
Ego
Super ego
Libido
Question No.83 4.00
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Which of the following theory was developed by Michael White?
Art therapy
Narrative therapy
Multimodal therapy
Solution-focused therapy
Question No.84 4.00
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Social sterotypes typically involve categories defined by an
Personal dimention
Electic dimention
Catanotic dimention
Ethnic dimension
Question No.85 4.00
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What statistical test would be used with interval or ratio data with multiple dependent variables?
ANCOVA
Repeated measures of ANOVA
MANOVA
Mixed ANOVA
Question No.86 4.00
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The study and application of positivily oriented human resource strenghts and psychological
capacities that can be increased, developed and effectively managed for performance improvement
in todays work place called as
Positive Culture
Positive organizationall behaviour
Positive behaviour
Positive organizational development

16. Question No.87 4.00
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In the following question, the first two words (given in italics) have a definite relationship. Choose
one word out of the given four alternatives which will fill the blank space and showthe same
relationship with the third word as between the first two.
Hear is to Deafas as Speak is to ………?………….
Silent
Talkative
Listen
Dumb
Question No.88 4.00
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New National Education Policy was introduced in the year
1986
1976
2006
1996
Question No.89 4.00
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Rehabilitation Psychologists provide services with the goal of _____
Increasing function and reducing disability
Increase activity limitations
To re-teach habits
To restrict societal participation
Question No.90 4.00
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Analysis of variances method is used when
Comapre two means
When means are independent
When means are dependent
More than two means are compared
Question No.91 4.00
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In testing Null hypothesis, if the findings are significant then null hypothesis is
Rejected
Reviewed
Accepted
Cancelled
Question No.92 4.00
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Correct the error in the italicized part of the sentence by choosing the most appropriate option.
Leaving aside little room for misinterpretation, the senior politician offered clarifications about his role
in the party elections.
Leaving for little room to
Having left less room for
Leaving less room for
Leaving little room for

17. Question No.93 4.00
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Which of the following is not a symptom of anxiety disorders
Sleep problem
Panic
Sadness
Heart palpitation
Question No.94 4.00
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Who proposed Expectancy theory of motivation?
Vroom
Herzberg
Maslow
Alderfer
Question No.95 4.00
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Choose the synonym of the italicized word. Many cities were incinerated during the war.
attacked
burnt
bombed
destroyed
Question No.96 4.00
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DSM V refers to
Diagnostic and statisitcal methods of mental disorders
Diagnostic and methods of mental disorders
Diagnostic and systems of mental disorders
Diagnostic and Statistcial Manual of mental disorders
Question No.97 4.00
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Statement: Warning: Cigarette smoking is injurious to Health
Assumptions:
I. Non-Smoking Promotes Health
II. This warning is not necessary
If only assumption IIis implicit
If only assumption Iis implicit
If both Iand IIare implicit
If neither Inor IIis implicit
Question No.98 4.00
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A cognitive restructuring method in which client and therapist become investigators by examining the
evidence to support or reject the patient’s cognitions
Guided discovery
Downward arrow technique
Socratic questioning
Collaborative empiricism

18. Question No.99 4.00
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________ deals with attitudes and behavioral patterns of a group i.e., how groups are formed, what is
their structure and which processes are followed in their functioning etc.
Group polarization
Group Influence
Group Dynamics
Group cohesiveness
Question No.100 4.00
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Which one is not a probability sampling method
Random sampling
Cluster sampling
Purposive sampling
Stratified sampling