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Practise multiple-choice questions from psychology for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

psychology Mcqs

221. When there is a conflict between bits of information received by two or more senses, which sense tends to dominate the others?
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A. smell

B. touch

C. vision

D. hearing only

222. Two-point discrimination is assessed in the study of ____________________?
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A. visual acuity

B. auditory thresholds

C. cutaneous sensitivity

D. binocular depth perception

223. Distinguishing objects from what surrounds them refers to ________________?
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A. figure and ground

B. proximity

C. closure

D. distance

224. Historically, gestalt psychologists focused mainly on problems dealing with _______________?
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A. perception

B. learning

C. development

D. motivation

225. Movement illusions such as the moon-cloud illusion, in which the moon appears to race from cloud to cloud, illustrate the role in visual perception played by ______________?
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A. bottom-up processing

B. binocular disparity

C. a frame of reference

D. a linear perspective

226. You had a car crash, now all cars scare you, it is called ______________?
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A. discrimination

B. generalization

C. extinction

D. secondary reinforcement

227. Size constancy refers to our perception of an objects size as the same even though its image on the retina_____________ as the distance between us and the object _____________?
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A. increases, decreases

B. decreases, increases

C. a and b

D. decreases, decreases

228. The theory of Selective Attention was proposed by ______________?
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A. Broadbent

B. Lockhart and Craik

C. Bruner

D. Selfridge

229. The perception of depth and distance in a 3-dimensional space depends mostly on ________________?
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A. movement detectors

B. texture-density gradient

C. interposition

D. binocular vision

230. In negative reinforcement __________________________?
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A. an aversive stimulus is removed

B. a pleasing stimulus is removed

C. an aversive stimulus is administered

D. response learning is faster than escape training

231. As the individual continues his growth after birth, the neural cells in his brain _______________?
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A. change in their chemical composition

B. increase in number

C. both a and b

D. none of these

232. A string of lights is flashed in sequence. We perceive the situation as a light that moves along the string. This is a demonstration of _______________?
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A. location constancy

B. binocular disparity

C. brightness constancy

D. the phi phenomenon

233. Some of the fibers from each eye cross over to the opposite brain hemisphere at the ______________?
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A. fovea

B. optic nerve

C. blind spot

D. optic chiasma

234. In most social settings, the theory of social attraction of which one of the following appears most applicable?
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A. Webster

B. Finch

C. Newcomb

D. Winch

235. Webers law refers to ________________?
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A. reinforcement rate matching

B. sensory transduction

C. stimulus thresholds

D. the tricolor theory

236. Hermann von Helmholtz is, in part, famous for his theory of ________________?
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A. lateral inhibition

B. color vision

C. sensory transduction

D. color blindness

237. The little bumps visible on our tongue are _______________?
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A. papillae

B. axon

C. receptors

D. taste buds

238. Which of the following depth cues creates the impression of visual cliff?
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A. interposition

B. linear perspective

C. texture gradient

D. relative height

239. As we move, viewed objects cast changing shapes on our retinas, although we do not perceive the objects as changing. This is part of the phenomenon of _________________?
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A. relative motion

B. linear perspective

C. continuity

D. perceptual consistency

240. Gestaltists refer to the fact that we perceive smooth flowing forms more readily than discrete forms as ______________?
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A. symmetry

B. holistic perception

C. similarity

D. continuity

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