psychology Mcqs
101. Who hypothesized a general g factor to intelligence?
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A. Charles Spearman

B. Robert Sternberg

C. David Wechsler

D. Louis Thurstone

102. Alan Baddeley is one of the leading figures in research on ________________?
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A. semantic memory

B. working memory

C. procedural memory

D. implicit memory

103. Children learning the alphabet is a common form of ___________________?
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A. rehearsal

B. pairing

C. serial learning

D. repetition

104. Cognitive psychologists often liken the short-term store of the mind to which part of a computer?
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A. the keyboard

B. the central processing unit

C. the monitor

D. the printer

105. Iconic memory refers to ____________________?
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A. auditory working memory

B. visual sensory memory

C. visual short-term memory

D. visual working memory

106. According to Craik and Lockhart, which of the following levels of processing would result in the highest recall of information?
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A. Syntactic

B. Semantic

C. Acoustic

D. Phonological

107. Which researcher developed the Culture Fair Intelligent Test?
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A. Rorschach

B. Cattell

C. Spearman

D. Raven

108. The Saving method developed by Ebbinghaus to measure memory performance was an early form of measuring ________________?
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A. implicit memory

B. semantic memory

C. deductive reasoning

D. encoding specificity

109. Which of the following theorists invented the concept of the method of savings?
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A. Bartlett

B. Chomsky

C. Ebbinghaus

D. Craik

110. Which of the following types of memory is most resistant to destruction?
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A. procedural memory

B. metamemory

C. semantic memory

D. episodic memory

111. The Measurement of Adult Intelligence was written by _________________?
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A. Guilford

B. Wechsler

C. Binet

D. Skinner

112. A response that leads to the removal of an unpleasant stimulus is one being _____________________?
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A. negatively reinforced

B. extinguished

C. punished

D. positively reinforced

113. Identify the pair which represents an incorrect association?
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A. Wertheimer trait approach to personality

B. Johnson problem solving

C. Cattell factor analysis of personality

D. Osgood semantic differentials

114. Alferd Binet is famous for developing the first ___________________?
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A. adult intelligence test

B. fixed alternative test

C. child intelligence test

D. projective test

115. When we use the word tree to refer to a category of plants, we are using this word as a/an __________________?
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A. prototype

B. heuristic

C. concept

D. algorithm

116. The term schema refers to _____________________?
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A. None of these

B. the mental representation of a concept

C. a control process in long-term memory

D. a proposition

117. The impact of over-learning on retention best illustrates the value of _________________?
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A. the method of loci

B. chunking

C. automatic processing

D. rehearsal
118. The general Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is an example of a/an ____________________?
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A. cross-cultural test

B. achievement test

C. intelligence test

D. aptitude test
119. The earliest studies of verbal learning and rote memory were conducted by __________________?
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A. Thorndike

B. Miller

C. Ebbinghaus

D. Pavlov

120. In the Binet and Simon scoring system, an 8-year-old child who performed as well as an average 10- year-old would be assigned a mental age of ____________________?
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A. 12.5

B. 10

C. 8

D. 1.25

121. Which of the following is not one of the four basic components of language?
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A. semantic

B. phonology

C. syntax

D. morphology
122. The word bugs consist of ____________________?
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A. one morpheme and three phonemes

B. two morphemes and three phonemes

C. one morpheme and four phonemes

D. two morphemes and four phonemes
123. Eidetic memory is most often found in __________________?
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A. adults

B. depressed adults

C. children

D. mentally-retarded children

124. An ability to learn new information and form new long-term memories is called ________________?
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A. proactive amnesia

B. implicit amnesia

C. retroactive amnesia

D. anterograde amnesia

125. Which therapy is best for treating anxiety?
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A. Humanistic therapy

B. REBt

C. CBT

D. None of these

126. Echoic memories fade after approximately ________________?
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A. 30 seconds

B. 1 second

C. 1 hour

D. 1 minute

127. The tip-of-tongue phenomenon is due to a difficulty in __________________?
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A. encoding

B. storage

C. retrieval

D. working memory

128. Convergent and divergent thinking were first defined by ___________________?
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A. J. P. Guilford

B. Martin Seligman

C. Joseph Wolpe

D. Herbert Simon

129. The capacity of short-term memory can be increased through ________________?
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A. selective encoding

B. chunking

C. rehearsal

D. attention

130. When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which test of memory is being utilized?
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A. rehearsal

B. reconstruction

C. recall

D. recognition

131. A test of the capacity to learn a particular skill and to learn within a specific area of knowledge is called a/an ____________________?
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A. achievement test

B. projective test

C. acquisition test

D. aptitude test
132. Modern psychology started during the last century in__________?
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A. Britain

B. USA

C. Russia

D. Germany
133. In classical conditioning, the relationship between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response is __________________?
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A. reflexive

B. learned

C. conditioned

D. hereditary

134. Associating a list of items you need to remember with a sequence of specific places is called __________________?
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A. encoding specificity

B. chunking

C. cognitive mapping

D. the method of Loci
135. Memorizing by rote (i.e., repeating something over and over until it is learned) is also called _________________?
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A. maintenance rehearsal

B. declarative rehearsal

C. distributed practice

D. elaborative rehearsal

136. Which memory holds a large amount of information for about 2 seconds?
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A. echoic memory

B. iconic memory

C. tactile memory

D. short-term memory

137. Termans study of gifted children would be considered __________________?
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A. longitudinal

B. laboratory method

C. latitudinal

D. representational method

138. The scientific method that is not appropriate for psychology is_________?
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A. introspection

B. field research

C. non-parametic

D. parametic statistics

139. Language comprehension is associated with _______________ area of the brain?
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A. Wernickes

B. Foresters

C. Brocas

D. Gages

140. According to Pavlovs dual-code model of memory, the two types of codes used to store long-term memories are ________________?
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A. implicit and explicit

B. visual and auditory

C. verbal and visual

D. semantic and syntactic

141. Repeating a persons name over and over immediately after being introduced is an example of _________________?
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A. chunking

B. elaboration

C. maintenance rehearsal

D. a mnemonic device

142. A student who has studied German in high school, takes a course in French in college and now has trouble remembering the German. This is an example of the effects of __________________?
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A. retroactive interference

B. encoding specificity

C. proactive interference

D. state-dependent learning

143. To store information in long-term memory, one should use __________________?
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A. repetition

B. elaborative rehearsal

C. maintained rehearsal

D. attention

144. Phonemes are ___________________?
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A. the smallest units of meaningful sound

B. syllables

C. the smallest units of sound

D. measurements

145. The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve _________________?
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A. repression

B. interference

C. encoding failure

D. implicit memory loss

146. Which is the last of the pre-linguistic stages in a childs development of speech?
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A. phonemes

B. anagrammatic

C. babbling

D. basic cry

147. For Noam Chomsky, the semantic interpretation of a sentence comes from ________________?
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A. surface structure

B. deep structure

C. transformational rules

D. divergent thinking

148. Remembering how to solve a jigsaw puzzle without any conscious recollection that one can do so best illustrates ________________ memory?
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A. explicit

B. sensory

C. implicit

D. flashbulb

149. Of the following tests, the most suitable for determining the IQ of most 12-year-old is the ___________________?
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A. CPI

B. WPPSI

C. WISC

D. WAIS

150. Which of the following is not a measure of retention?
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A. relearning

B. recall

C. retrieval

D. recognition