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psychology Mcqs

341. Which of the following learning mechanism does B.F. Skinner see as being the major means by which behavior is learned?
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A. classical conditioning

B. operant conditioning

C. observational learning

D. insight learning

342. If you slowly bring your finger toward your face until it eventually touches your nose, eye-muscle cues called ________________ convey depth information to your brain?
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A. retinal disparity

B. interposition

C. convergence

D. continuity

343. According to Bandura and Walters, all of the following processes are involved in observational learning except __________________?
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A. attention process

B. reproduction process

C. chaining process

D. motivation process

344. A child who wins a game and gains peer approval is receiving _________________?
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A. primary reinforcement

B. secondary reinforcement

C. social reinforcement

D. both b and c

345. Continued improvement in the absence of further practice is known as _________________?
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A. recall

B. reminiscence

C. platikurtic

D. spontaneous recovery

346. Illusion means _____________?
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A. false sensation

B. wrong perception

C. false belief

D. both a and b

347. A police officer is a tense and possibly dangerous situation may see a hammer in a mans hand as a gun. This mistake could be attributed to the officers __________________?
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A. selective viewing

B. frame illusion

C. Stroop interference

D. perceptual set

348. Dichotic listening tasks are used to study _______________?
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A. selective attention

B. spontaneous recovery

C. echoic memory

D. good continuation

349. When we stare at an object, each eye receives slightly different image, providing a depth cue known as _____________?
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A. convergence

B. retinal disparity

C. relative motion

D. linear perspective

350. Of the following psychologists, who described the identity crisis as a major problem faced by the adolescent?
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A. Piaget

B. Horney

C. Freud

D. Erikson

351. The process in which your eyes adjust from darkness to bright light is called _______________?
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A. coding of light intensity patterns

B. dark adaptation

C. light adaptation

D. coding of contrast

352. Which of the following sensory systems involves the ganglion cells and the ciliary muscles?
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A. Cutaneous

B. Visual

C. Olfactory

D. Auditory

353. The repeated presentation of the CS without the UCS results in __________________?
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A. higher-order conditioning

B. extinction

C. inhibition

D. spontaneous recovery

354. The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by the _______________?
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A. lens

B. Coptic nerve

C. retina

D. iris

355. The rationalist approach of Chomsky in explaining language development is also referred to as _______________?
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A. empiricist

B. culture-bound

C. cognitive

D. nativist

356. Which theory of gender-typing suggests that people understand and classify their own behavior and personality traits in terms of masculine and feminine categories?
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A. social learning theory

B. evolutionary theory

C. gender schema theory

D. psychoanalytical theory

357. Studying to avoid bad grade is an example of __________________?
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A. punishment

B. negative reinforcement

C. escape

D. positive reinforcement

358. In Pavlovs experiments, the dogs salivation triggered by the taste of food was a/an __________________?
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A. unconditioned stimulus

B. conditioned stimulus

C. unconditioned response

D. conditioned response

359. The process of detecting, translating and transmitting messages from the external environment to the brain is called _____________?
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A. selective attention

B. perception

C. sensation

D. adaptation

360. The rectangular table appears rectangular regardless of the distance or angle at which it is viewed. This is an example of _______________?
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A. brightness constancy

B. None of these

C. size constancy

D. shape constancy

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