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Higher Order Thinking Skills in Psychology

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions related to higher order thinking skills. The questions cover topics such as identifying suitable professions based on abilities, recognizing defense mechanisms, diagnosing psychological disorders, and defining key psychological concepts. The questions require understanding of concepts in psychology, analyzing case studies, and determining appropriate diagnoses or explanations for human behavior.

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Higher Order Thinking Skills in Psychology

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions related to higher order thinking skills. The questions cover topics such as identifying suitable professions based on abilities, recognizing defense mechanisms, diagnosing psychological disorders, and defining key psychological concepts. The questions require understanding of concepts in psychology, analyzing case studies, and determining appropriate diagnoses or explanations for human behavior.

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Higher Order Thinking Skill Questions

Q1. High aptitude in verbal reasoning and interest in reading will be suited best for which profession:

a) Law
b) Journalism
c) Actuaries
d) Agriculturist

Q2. Tina has hidden her English test copy from her parents. She keeps repeating the same when she gets low
marks. Which aspect of her personality according to psychodynamic theory is low in her?

Q3. Harsh is scared of cockroaches for no good reason and extremely panics whenever the stimulus is present.
Identify the disorder and given the most appropriate method of curing it.

Q4. Rajat feels satisfied only if he does everything perfectly. This indicates Rajat’s:

a) Social prestige
b) Interpersonal prestige
c) Conflict
d) Social stress

Q5. Priya exhibits strong aggressive behaviour towards but complains of other people being aggressive. Which
defense mechanism is used here?

a) Denial
b) Reaction formation
c) Projection
d) Rationalization

Q6. Gautam realized he is a homosexual but due to social and family prestige declared himself to be heterosexual.
He also developed a loathing for gay people. What defense mechanism is he using?

a) Denial
b) Reaction formation
c) Projection
d) Rationalization

Q7. Rahul is recommended for counselling for having consistent poor results. What can be the first screening
procedure?

Q8. Aryan would love to keep a dog at home but his mother is totally against it. Explain with a diagram the balance
in their attitude.

Q8. Ritu is hardworking, committed and patiently works towards her goal. She is said to be high on:

a) Cognition
b) Emotion
c) Social
d) Entrepreneurial
Q9. Mohit was rejected in a job interview which he was very to join. Now he claims his present job to be better. He
is using:

a) Reaction formation
b) Projection
c) Regression
d) Rationalization

Q10. Sonal has major loss of appetite and perceives herself to be extremely fat where she is actually underweight.
Which disorder does it reflect?

Q11. Cognitive restricting is best suited for:

a) Anxiety and depression


b) Depression and mania
c) Phobias
d) Alcohol addiction

Q12. Sunil shows loss of interest in most of the activities, cannot sleep well at night, exhibits excessive guilt and
loss of interest in activities that he would enjoy earlier. Sunil’s symptoms are akin to that of:

a) Somatoform Disorder
b) Obsessive compulsive disorder
c) Major depressive disorder
d) Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Q13. When an individual changes in a direction opposite to the existing attitude, it is called incongruent attitude
change (True/ False)
Q14. ‘Perceiving or thinking that one has got less than what one should get’ refers to __________.
Q15. A ____________ is a purposeful conversation between two or more people that follows a basic question and
answer format.

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