psychology MCQs – Page 19

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
361. Which one of the following is based on the principles of classical conditioning?
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A. token economies

B. systematic decentralization

C. differential reinforcement

D. contingency management

362. Which of the following would pay a role in quickly alerting you to a gas leak in your home?
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A. bipolar cells

B. basilar membrane

C. vestibular sacs

D. olfactory receptors
363. If characteristic requires only one gene to show itself that characteristic is considered _______________?
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A. co-dominant

B. dominant

C. incompletely dominant

D. recessive

364. The phenomenon that refers to the ways in which an individuals expectations influence perception is called _______________?
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A. perceptual set

B. convergence

C. retinal disparity

D. visual capture

365. Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the _______________?
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A. innate capability index

B. innate surface structure ability

C. language acquisition device

D. prosody index

366. In the Stroop effect, we may be asked to remember the word blue when the color of the word itself actually was yellow. Our response tendencies demonstrate _______________?
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A. loci

B. chaining

C. automatization

D. transduction

367. The two members of a gene pair are called _________________?
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A. alleles

B. dominant genes

C. clones

D. zygotes

368. What most accurately defines the function of middle ear?
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A. sound-wave amplification

B. formation of neural impulse

C. transmission to the brain

D. sound collection

369. Erik Erikson suggested that children with a very secure attachment to their parents are especially likely to experience ________________?
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A. stranger anxiety

B. basic trust

C. egocentrism

D. object permanence

370. The process of reinforcing successively closer approximations to a desired behavior is called ___________________?
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A. modeling

B. partial reinforcement

C. secondary reinforcement

D. shaping
371. The theory that challenged Helmholtzs theory of color vision is _______________?
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A. opponent-process theory

B. frequency theory

C. trichromatic theory

D. isomorphism

372. This is not a law of perceptual organization _________________?
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A. continuity

B. simplicity

C. closure

D. proximity

373. Studying to avoid bad grade is an example of ___________________?
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A. negative reinforcement

B. positive reinforcement

C. punishment

D. escape

374. Bold words in a textbook is an example of __________________?
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A. a stimulus factor in motivation

B. a personal factor in perception

C. a Gestalt principle of perception

D. a stimulus factor in perception
375. The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called _________________?
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A. continuity

B. similarity

C. proximity

D. closure

376. The perceptual processes that make use of preexisting knowledge to interpret new information are called _______________?
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A. top-down processes

B. sensory processes

C. bottom-up processes

D. parallel processes

377. 1039. Myopia, or near sightedness is caused by _______________?
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A. a malfunction of the lens of the eye

B. an elongated eyeball

C. a cloudy cornea

D. an eyeball that has become shortened

378. The fact that a pinpoint down the railroad track is perceived by a person as a diesel engine is an example of ________________?
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A. continuity

B. size constancy

C. closure

D. motion parallax

379. Which of the following types of learning cannot be directly observed?
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A. verbal learning

B. response learning

C. operant conditioning

D. perceptual learning
380. As a person views picture one way, he sees craters. When he turns it 180 degrees, the craters become bumps, the perceptual phenomena are due to _______________?
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A. relative position

B. convergence

C. light and shadow

D. linear perspective