psychology MCQs – Page 17

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
321. The depth cue that occurs when we watch stable objects at different distances as we are moving is __________________?
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A. relative clarity

B. relative motion

C. interposition

D. convergence

322. The muscle fibers of the iris can increase or decrease the amount of light entering the eye by expanding or contracting the ______________?
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A. fovea

B. pupil

C. cornea

D. lens

323. In our society, money is an example of a _________________?
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A. negative reinforce

B. simple operant

C. primary reinforce

D. secondary reinforce
324. You are standing in the middle of way, as you look far ahead, the tracks seem to come together in the distance. That illustrates ______________?
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A. linear perspective

B. convergence

C. similarity

D. interposition

325. Not among stimulus cues that can aid perception of depth is ___________________?
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A. light and shadow

B. convergence

C. linear perspective

D. texture

326. The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as _________________?
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A. feature detection

B. the opponent-process theory

C. the difference threshold

D. Webers law
327. Events that occur close together in space or time are generally perceived as belonging together. Gestalt psychologists refer to this as ________________?
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A. similarity

B. proximity

C. continuity

D. closure

328. The procedure in which only a portion of correct responses are reinforced is called ________________?
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A. observational learning

B. extinction

C. None of these

D. partial reinforcement
329. Each time you see your car, it projects a different image on the retina as of your eyes yet you do not perceive it as changing. This is because of ________________?
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A. convergence

B. retinal disparity

C. perceptual constancy

D. perceptual set

330. For classical conditioning, it is essential that ___________________?
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A. the CS be originally neutral

B. the UCS be originally neutral

C. the subject be informed of desired outcome in advance

D. the UCS be inherently rewarding

331. Gibsons theory of motion perception centers primarily on the _______________?
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A. shape constancy

B. relation of moving object to immobile background

C. stroboscopic effect

D. relation to phi-phenomenon to immobile background

332. Which of the following is not one of the Gestalt principles of grouping?
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A. similarity

B. proximity

C. contrast

D. closure

333. _________________ involves observing and imitating the behavior of others?
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A. shaping

B. modeling

C. observing

D. praising

334. An elderly person who can look back on life with satisfaction and reminisce with a sense of completion has attained Eriksons stage of ________________?
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A. intimacy

B. integrity

C. generativity

D. isolation

335. The fact that hues at the short-wave end of the color spectrum appear bright at nightfall is a function of ______________?
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A. Purkinje effect

B. Zeigarnik effect

C. light adaptation

D. Young-Helmholtz effect

336. Under which of the following reinforcement schedules is it most important for an organism to learn to estimate time accurately?
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A. fixed ratio

B. fixed interval

C. variable ratio

D. variable interval

337. The reinforcement schedule that yields the lowest performance is the __________________?
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A. verbal-interval-schedule

B. fixed-interval schedule

C. fixed-ration schedule

D. variable-interval schedule

338. This is not an important factor in the acquisition of motor skills ________________?
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A. feedback

B. reflex action

C. distribution of practice

D. repetition

339. The major laws of perceptual organization were developed by the __________________?
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A. Transactionalist

B. Cognitivists

C. Phenomenologists

D. Gestaltists
340. One subject partially blocks your view of a second object and, therefore, the first object is seen as being closer to you than the second object. This is an example of ________________?
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A. good continuation

B. relative size

C. interposition

D. the Poggendroff illusion