psychology MCQs – Page 16

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

301. You walk into a dark movie theater wearing a white shirt, and notice that the shirt now looks gray. However, you know that the shirt is still white because of _________________?
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A. size constancy

B. texture gradient

C. brightness constancy

D. linear perspective

302. Apraxia is characterized by an inability to _______________?
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A. organize movements in terms of purpose

B. do something when instructed verbally

C. make movements

D. both a and b

303. A child whose father has a beard and who uses the word daddy to refer to all men with beards is __________________?
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A. exhibiting weak attachment to the father

B. babbling

C. exhibiting developmental dysphasia

D. overextending the word

304. The type of learning that is unique for human is _________________?
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A. verbal learning

B. motor task learning

C. operant conditioning

D. classical conditioning

305. The best studied perceptual constancies include ________________?
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A. color, texture, content

B. brightness, focus, angle

C. shape, location, size

D. size, age, weight

306. Pinna is part of the _____________?
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A. outer ear

B. oval window

C. ossicles

D. cochlea

307. 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. perceptual consistency

C. linear perspective

D. continuity

A. choices

B. distinction

C. discrimination

D. detectability

309. The Law of Effect is concerned with the effects of ______________________?
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A. activity states on behavior

B. internal drive states on behavior

C. hormones in behavior

D. rewards and punishment on behavior

310. Which of the senses foes the majority of hallucinations occur in?
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A. sight

B. smell

C. hearing

D. taste

311. Not a monocular cue for depth is _________________?
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A. convergence

B. linear perspective

C. relative size

D. interposition

312. Behavior therapists can help people to overcome such unwanted habits as smoking or overeating through _____________________?
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A. place learning

B. operant conditioning

C. habituation

D. observational learning

313. Perceptual phenomenon have been most prominently explored within ________________?
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A. gestalt

B. structuralism

C. behaviorism

D. functionalism

314. Prominent among monocular depth cues is ___________________?
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A. texture-density gradient

B. retinal disparity

C. retinal polarity

D. reciprocal innervations

315. The gestalt experience of perceiving an array of equally spaced dots as rows and columns is attributed to ________________?
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A. additive vision

B. wholistic functions

C. proximity

D. continuity

316. The largest sense organ of the body is/are the _______________?
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A. skin

B. eyes

C. ears

D. tongue

317. Semicircular canals are involved in which sense?
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A. auditory

B. vestibular

C. olfactory

D. kinesthetic

318. Which of the following abnormalities is most likely related to the mothers condition at the time of conception?
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A. oxygen deprivation during prenatal development

B. fetal alcohol syndrome

C. prenatal smoking

D. Downs syndrome

319. Which of the following reinforcement schedules in operant conditioning would be best to use if you want to produce behavior that is very resistant to extinction?
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A. fixed ratio

B. fixed interval

C. continuous

D. variable ratio

320. According to Wolfgang Kohler, when one of his chimps fastened two sticks together to reach a bunch of bananas, it was showing an evidence of _________________?
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A. trial-and-error learning

B. a fixed-action pattern

C. instinctual drift

D. insight

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