Learning — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

In Piaget's classification system, the child learns language and the logic of classification and numbers during which period?

1. Sensorimotor.
2. Latency.
3. Formal operations.
4. Concrete operations.

Language consists of a series of:

1. Images.
2. Evaluations.
3. Meaningful symbols.
4. None of these.

The Gestalt psychologists found that the individual organizes stimuli into wholes according to certain principles. One important principle is:

1. After effect.
2. Contour.
3. Trial and error.
4. Transfer.

The present finding is that both _____________ contribute jointly to the determination of behaviour.

1. Motivation and emotion.
2. Intelligence and emotion.
3. Society and environment.
4. Heredity and environment.

The humanistic approach to psychology was developed mainly by:

1. Abraham Maslow.
2. Carl Wright.

Rearrangement of concepts to overcome a difficulty would mean:

1. Reasoning.
2. Problem solving.
3. Creative thinking.
4. None of these.

Vygotsky differentiated between inner speech and _________ speech.

1. External.
2. Convergent.
3. Creative.
4. Autistic.

Motives arouse behaviour and direct it towards an:

1. Appropriate goal.
2. Inference.
3. Prediction.
4. None of these.

___________ is the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.

1. Gestalt.
2. Figure-ground.
3. Closure.
4. Grouping.

____________ is regarded as impelling a person or animal to action.

1. Need.
2. Stimuli.
3. Drive.
4. None of these.