R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | MBA MBA Behavioural and Allied Sciences MCQ Set 1

Wave ______________ is to pitch as wave ______________ is to loudness.

1. length, frequency
2. peak, trough
3. frequency, amplitude
4. pressure, distinctiveness

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Damage to your olfactory membrane would most likely impair your ability to

1. smell
2. feel pain
3. hear
4. see

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When detecting colour, hue depends on ______________ while brightness depends on ______________

1. height, length
2. length, height
3. intensity, consistency
4. consistency, intensity

✅ Correct Answer: 2

That fact that you may notice a disgusting smell when you first walk into the room but stop noticing if you stay in the room for a while illustrates

1. synaesthesia
2. selective attention
3. sensory attention
4. sensory adaptation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where in the brain is the medial geniculate nucleus found:

1. midbrain
2. pons
3. thalamus
4. brainstem

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of these are actively involved to see in darkness:

1. cones
2. rods
3. hair cells
4. cochlear nuclei

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The auditory nerve first reaches ______________ before reaching inferior colliculus.

1. superior colliculus
2. medial geniculate nucleus
3. ventral cochlear nucleus
4. lateral geniculate nucleus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the precursor of steroid hormone:

1. Protein
2. Cholesterol
3. Carbohydrate
4. Lipid

✅ Correct Answer: 2

All the following are true of posterior pituitary hormones except

1. they include direct and tropic hormones
2. they are released from the posterior pituitary
3. nerve signal from the hypothalamus stimulates their release
4. they include antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following hormones would bind to receptors located on the inside of the cell:

1. testosterone
2. LH
3. prolactin
4. growth hormone

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which hormone increases the basal metabolic rate in the body:

1. parathyroid hormone
2. adrenal hormone
3. thyroid hormone
4. growth hormone

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Pituitary gland also known as master gland is under the control of

1. pineal gland
2. adrenal gland
3. hypothalamus
4. thyroid gland

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of these is not an endocrine gland:

1. Pancreas
2. Testes
3. Salivary gland
4. Parathyroid

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which hormones of the adrenal glands supplement the sex hormones from the gonads:

1. Mineralocorticoids, such as aldosterone
2. Glucocorticoids, such as cortisol
3. Gonadocorticoids, such as the androgens
4. Epinephrine and norepinephrine

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The overall number of cases in STI is

1. rising
2. falling
3. about the same as it always has been
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of these are other types of STIs:

1. chancroid
2. scabies
3. Molluscum contagiosum
4. all the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The feedback loop for production of sex hormone in men does not include

1. hypothalamus
2. pituitary gland
3. oxytocin
4. follicle stimulating hormone

✅ Correct Answer: 3

HIV attacks a certain kind of cell in the immune system. Which is it:

1. red blood cells
2. white blood cells or T cells
3. platelets
4. epithelial cells

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The first stage of the sexual response cycle is

1. orgasm
2. resolution
3. excitement
4. plateau

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Womens ability to have multiple orgasms is primarily due to

1. the g-spot
2. having alternating orgasms in different locations
3. having alternating orgasms in different locations
4. the fact that they do not have a refractory period

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A part of neuron that conducts the action potential away from the cell body is

1. myelin sheath
2. synapse
3. nodes of ranvier
4. axon

✅ Correct Answer: 4

_______ cells are present only in PNS.

1. schwann
2. oligodendroglia
3. microglia
4. astrocytes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Drugs that inhibit a neuron from firing are called ______________

1. agonists
2. receptors
3. transmitters
4. antagonists

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The portion of ANS that reduces heart and breathing rates after a stressful encounter is

1. parasympathetic
2. somantic
3. autonomic
4. sympathetic

✅ Correct Answer: 1

_________ divides two cerebral hemispheres.

1. transverse fissure
2. lateral fissure
3. longitudinal fissure
4. bilateral fissures

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The area responsible for the production of speech is called as ______________

1. wernicks area
2. wernicks aphasia
3. brocas area
4. brocas aphasia

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following plays a major role in fear :

1. amygdala
2. hippocampus
3. thalamus
4. midbrain

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The First stage of General adaptation syndrome

1. Resistance stage
2. Exhaustion stage
3. Alarm Stage
4. Flight stage

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The purpose of immune system is to

1. Help germs invade our body
2. Fight off sickness
3. Make your nose run
4. Helps to maintain body weight

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of these is a symptom of acute stress:

1. Heartburn
2. Diarrhea
3. Sweaty palms
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The hippocampus attaches to

1. Emotions and memories
2. Emotions and cortex
3. Memories and cortex
4. Cortex and emotions

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The purity of light is called

1. hue
2. wavelength
3. saturation
4. brightness

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A researcher interested in the relationship between physical stimuli and our psychological experience would be studying

1. extrasensory perception
2. proprioception
3. transduction
4. psychophysics

✅ Correct Answer: 4

People are more likely to notice 5 rupees increase in the price of a candy bar than they are to notice 5 rupees increase in an iPhone. This illustrates

1. the absolute threshold
2. webers law
3. signal detection
4. opponent process

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What structure provides the boundary between outer and middle ear:

1. tympanic membrane
2. cochlea
3. pinna
4. oval window

✅ Correct Answer: 1

____________ is to vision as ______________ is to audition.

1. superior colliculus, inferior colliculus
2. inferior colliculus, superior colliculus
3. organ of corti, inferior ovilary
4. Superior ovilary, inferior ovilary

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not an endocrine gland:

1. Hypothalamus
2. Pituitary
3. Parathyroid
4. Pancreas

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Unlike polypeptide hormones, steroid hormones

1. demonstrate rapid onset of effect
2. are more likely to have an associated receptor in the cytosol or nucleus
3. more commonly function via specific second messengers
4. are more rapidly degraded and therefore demonstrate more temporary effects

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Endocrine glands differ from exocrine glands in that

1. Endocrine glands are ductless and exocrine glands release secretions at the body's surface or into ducts
2. Endocrine glands release hormones, whereas exocrine glands release waste
3. Endocrine glands are formed by epithelial tissue, but exocrine glands are primarily connective tissue
4. Endocrine glands are all interconnected; whereas exocrine glands act completely independently.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The secretions from which of these glands differs between males and females:

1. Adrenal
2. Parathyroid
3. Gonadal
4. Pancreas

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of these is a health problem that can be caused by STI in women:

1. pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
2. ectopic pregnancy
3. higher risk for cervical cancer
4. all of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A more common problem among girls during puberty is

1. they have more acne than boys
2. they are more prone to obesity than boys
3. gynecomastia
4. both a and b

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The male sex hormone is

1. estrogen
2. estradiol
3. progesterone
4. androgen

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following produces the male sex hormone:

1. rete testis
2. seminiferous tubule
3. Leydig cell
4. scrotum

✅ Correct Answer: 3

hich of the following produces the male sex hormone:

1. rete testis
2. seminiferous tubule
3. Leydig cell
4. scrotum

✅ Correct Answer: 3

the periodic gaps in the myelin sheath on the axon is

1. nodes of ranvier
2. synapse
3. neurotransmitters
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Entry of the positive ions in action potential is called as ______________

1. repolarization
2. depolarization
3. polarization
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

_________ recieves and transmits motor signals from the CNS.

1. PNS
2. cells
3. chemicals
4. glial cells

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The depression found in the surface of the brain is called ______________

1. fissures
2. sulcus
3. gyri
4. gyrus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The area responsible for understanding of speech comprehension is ______________

1. wernicks aphasia
2. wernicks area
3. brocas area
4. parietal lobe

✅ Correct Answer: 2