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201.

Match List-I with List-II and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

List - I (Phenomenon)List - II (Psychological term)
p. Logical thinking for abstract concepts.1. Self-Schema
q. Use of nouns and verbs for omitting auxillary words.2. Cognitive development
r. Solutions to problems involving psychophysical judgements.3. Telegraphic speech
s. Cognitive generalization derived from past experience.4. Signal detection

Codes : p q r s

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

Logical thinking for abstract concepts is part of cognitive development (2); using nouns and verbs while omitting auxiliary words is telegraphic speech (3); solutions to problems involving psychophysical judgements belong to signal detection (4); and a cognitive generalisation drawn from past experience is a self-schema (1). That gives p-2, q-3, r-4, s-1, which is code B. Code A mixes signal detection and self-schema, code C swaps telegraphic speech with signal detection, and code D swaps both of the last two pairs.

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202.

Movements of the vocal apparatus are

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: C

The keyed answer is that movements of the vocal apparatus are necessary for thinking in some situations. Research on subvocal speech shows that people often make small laryngeal movements while thinking, especially on hard or verbal tasks, but thinking continues in people whose vocal movements are blocked, for example under muscle relaxants, so the movements are not always required. That excludes the view that they are always necessary (A) and the view that they are never involved (B). The final option, referring to (A) and (C), cannot be right because (A) is false.

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203.

Below given are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R), indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : For solution to any problem one generally compares his state of knowledge to the goal state.
Reason (R) : Finding sub-goals are necessary for reducing the difference between end goals and knowledge.
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: C

Both statements are true and the reason explains the assertion. In problem solving, people compare their present state of knowledge with the goal state, which is the means-ends view of Newell and Simon. To reduce the gap between the two, a problem solver breaks the task into sub-goals, so finding sub-goals is the means used to reduce the difference between the end goal and what is currently known. The reason therefore explains how the comparison in the assertion is put to use. Options A and B deny that one or both statements are true, and option D denies the explanatory link.

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204.

Read each of the following two statements - Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using code below :

Assertion (A) : Many evidences strongly suggest that there is no possibility that all of many human performances classified as intellectuals represent a unitary attribute determined by unitary set of factors.
Reason (R) : This may be because of what is called intelligence is a mixture of different attributes having different determinants.
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the reason explains the assertion. Evidence suggests that the many human performances classed as intellectual do not represent a single attribute set by a single group of factors. The reason says why: what we call intelligence is a mixture of different attributes with different determinants. That is the explanation for the lack of a unitary attribute. Options B, C and D either deny the link or call a true statement false.

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205.

Out of following which are the appropriate explanations as stated by Cattell in his 'gf' and 'gc' theory of Intelligence ?

1. 'gf' is mainly determined by genetic factors.
2. The speed of growth of 'gf' is very fast in early childhood and it starts declining in late adulthood - in late twenties.
3. 'gc' separates itself from 'gf' as a result of the effect of learning and other experiences.
4. Individual differences are more in 'gc' than 'gf'.
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: C

Cattell's theory of fluid (gf) and crystallised (gc) intelligence is correctly stated in statements 1, 2 and 3. Fluid intelligence is largely determined by genetic factors and shows fast growth in early childhood, with a decline from the late twenties. Crystallised intelligence separates from fluid intelligence as a result of learning and other experiences. Statement 4 is not among the keyed explanations, since individual differences are not described as greater in gc than in gf. The answer is 1, 2 and 3, so options A, B and D, which include statement 4, are wrong.

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206.

Out of the following theories of intelligence which one is regarded as latest one ?

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

The keyed answer is Sternberg's theory. Cattell's gf-gc theory dates from the 1940s and 1960s, Jensen's two-level theory from 1969, and Sternberg's triarchic theory from 1985, followed by his theory of successful intelligence in the 1990s. Mayer and Salovey's model of emotional intelligence dates from 1990, so it can also be thought recent. The key treats Sternberg's work as the latest of the four. A reviewer may wish to check this key, since the dating is open to argument.

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207.

Read each of the following two statements Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : The level at which we first categorize an object is the basic in the hierarchy of concepts.
Reason (R) : Concepts are related to one another.
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: B

Both statements are true, but the reason does not explain the assertion. Rosch showed that people first categorise objects at a basic level (chair rather than furniture or armchair), which is the level where categories are most informative and distinct, so the assertion is true. It is also true that concepts are related to one another, in hierarchies and networks. However, that relatedness says nothing about why one particular level is the entry point, which depends on informativeness and ease of use. So the answer is that both are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). Calling (R) the explanation, or either statement false, is wrong.

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208.

Which of the following are methods of solving problems ?

1. Trial and error
2. Mental set
3. Algorithm
4. Heuristics
5. Functional Fixedness
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: C

The methods of solving problems are trial and error, algorithms and heuristics, so the set is 1, 3 and 4. Trial and error tries responses until one works, an algorithm is a step-by-step procedure that guarantees a solution, and a heuristic is a rule of thumb that is quicker but not guaranteed. Mental set and functional fixedness are not methods; they are obstacles, in which a habitual approach or the fixed use of an object blocks the solution. Options containing 2 or 5 are therefore wrong.

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209.

Children of affluent and educated parents tend to score higher on tests of ability than children of parents living in poverty and who are not well educated. This relationship between socio-economic status and scores on ability tests is because of :

1. genetic differences in ability between different sociol classes.
2. differences in the adequacy of the biological and environmental factors in nutrition and health care.
3. differences in the cultural and learning experiences provided for children from different social classes.
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: D

All three statements together explain the relationship, so the answer is 1, 2 and 3. Poor families may differ genetically in ability from well-off ones, they commonly have poorer nutrition and health care, which affects brain development, and they offer fewer of the cultural and learning experiences that tests reward. Each factor contributes to the gap in scores, so omitting any one, as the other options do, is incomplete. The official key is 1, 2 and 3.

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210.

In reasoning when the premises are true, ________ cannot be false.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: A

The word is conclusion. In deductive reasoning an argument is valid when the premises are true and the conclusion cannot be false, because the conclusion follows necessarily. An argument is the whole structure of premises and conclusion, a proposition is a single statement and thoughts are a general term, so none of these is the item that cannot be false when the premises hold.

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