SUMMER FIELDS SCHOOL, GURUGRAM

PRE BOARD EXAMINATION

SESSION 2019-20
CLASS –XII
PSYCHOLOGY (SET A)
TIME: 3 Hours MM: 70

Invigilator’s Signature………………... Student’s Name …………………Sec……….

 All questions are compulsory.

 Number of sheets are 3
 PART- A has 17 Learning Checks carrying one mark each. You are required to
answer them as directed.
 Questions 18 to 21 in PART- B are Very Short Answer type questions carrying
2 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.
 Questions 22 to 24 in PART- C are Short Answer Type I questions carrying 3
marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 60 words.
 Questions 25 to 30 in PART- D are Short Answer Type II questions
carrying 4 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 100 words.
 Questions 31, 32 in PART- E are Long Answer Type questions carrying 6
marks each. Answer to question should not exceed 200 words.

PART A
1 Conformity in the Asch experiment—in which people were asked to judge the length 1
of different lines—was most likely due to the effects of
a) Informational influence
b) Normative influence
c) Both
d) Neither
2 Increasing the number of people in an emergency situation increases the likelihood of 1
saving that person’s life. True or false?
3 When parents come home with a new baby, they are shocked to find that their older 1
child, a 4-year-old, who used to be fully toilet-trained, has now soiled his underpants.
The child’s behavior is an example of:
a) projection
b) displacement
c) sublimation
d) regression
4 According to Sigmund Freud, a child who grabs food from another child because 1
of hunger is driven by
a) the id
b) the ego
c) environmental reinforcers
d) the superego
5 A client washes his hands twenty times a day. According to the Diagnostic and 1
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), the client most
likely has which type of the disorders?
6 means that your behavioural expressions are consistent with 1
what you value, the way you feel and relate to your inner self-image.
a) empathy
b) positive regard
c) self-concept
d) authenticity
7 The tendency to attribute your successes to dispositional factors and your 1
failures to situational factors is called the
a) autokinetic effect
b) self-serving bias
c) self-fulfilling prophecy
d) fundamental attribution error
8 Which type of standardized test would be used to predict how well you will do in 1
college? a. intelligence test b. personality test c. aptitude test d. predictive test
9 When Anamika was ten years old, she completed the original Stanford-Binet 1
Intelligence Scale. She answered all the questions that a typical six-year-old would
answer, but none of the questions a typical seven-year-old would answer. What is
Anamika’s mental age based on this information?
10 You have just come face to face with a bear on your walk through the woods. In which 1
stage of the general adaptation syndrome does your body automatically mobilize itself
for action?
11 Shivani sits in one position for long periods of time, evidencing muscular rigidity. 1
Which disorder includes this symptom?
a) catatonic schizophrenia
b) undifferentiated schizophrenia
c) paranoid schizophrenia
d) disorganized schizophrenia
12 Which disorder is characterized by free-floating anxiety? 1
13 Which therapeutic technique focuses on altering a client’s patterns of irrational 1
thinking to reduce maladaptive emotions and behaviour?
a) self-monitoring therapy
b) behavioural therapy
c) rational-emotive therapy
d) psychodynamic therapy
14 Imagine that you are a psychiatrist. Your patient, Kanika, comes to you with the 1
following symptoms: lost of interest in pleasure activities and feelings of sadness and
suicidal thoughts. Which therapeutic approach would you recommend?
15 Rana is the survivor of recent landslides in Shimla. He lost his family members. 1
identify the effects of the incident on Rana.
16 The minimalistic perspective suggests that the physical environment exists mainly for 1
use by human beings. True/False
17 You were interviewed by your school selection team for the post of head boy/head 1
girl. Identify the interpersonal distance in this situation.
a) Intimate distance
b) Public distance
c) Personal distance
d) Social Distance
PART B
18 What do psychodynamic theorists mean when they talk about transference? 2
19 How would you rehabilitate patients to become productive members of society? 2
20 Define scapegoating. 2
21 What is public communication? 2
PART C
22 Discuss the qualities associated with effective counselor. 3
23 Explain componential intelligence. 3
24 Describe several of the factors associated with suicide. 3
PART D
25 Crowding can have stressful effect on individual. Discuss its effects with an example. 4
26 You see a road accident, nobody is coming to help. Explain the phenomenon in 4
detail.
27 Explain two methods through which unconscious material can bring to conscious 4
mind.
28 Identify a behavior that is considered unusual or abnormal in your own culture; 4
however, it would be considered normal and expected in another culture.
29 How would a social learning theorist account for a phobic fear of lizards/cockroaches? 4
How would a psychoanalyst account for the same phobia?
30 Explain multiple intelligence theory with examples. 4
PART E
31 There are two families residing in your society. How can they be helped to resolve the 6
conflict over parking space?
How often do you show conformity in your behaviour? What are the determinants
of conformity?
32 Explain how projective techniques assess personality. 6
What is the Humanistic approach to Personality? What did Maslow mean by self-
actualisation?