psychology MCQs – Page 3

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

41. A predisposition to behave in a particular way is called a/an ____________________?
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A. stereotype

B. attitude

C. orienting reflex

D. prototype

42. Which of the following is a form of associative learning?
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A. observational learning

B. operant conditioning

C. all of the above

D. classical conditioning

43. Semantic memory and episodic memory are classes of _________________?
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A. short-term memory

B. implicit memory

C. explicit memory

D. iconic memory

44. Which of the following terms is associated with Henry Murray and the Thematic Appreciation Test?
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A. locus of control

B. belief in just world

C. authoritarianism

D. need to achieve

45. The decay of fading of memory with time is considered to be a failure in ________________?
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A. retrieval

B. encoding

C. storage

D. all of the above

46. Telegraphic speech is most closely associated with the __________________ stage of language development?
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A. phonetic

B. babbling

C. two-word

D. one-word

47. Norms can best be described as _________________________?
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A. rules of law

B. universal rules of conduct

C. statistically normal behavior

D. standard and expectations shared by the members of a society

48. The process that controls the movement of information from the short-term store into the long-term store is __________________?
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A. attention

B. retrieval

C. encoding

D. recall

49. Impaired language comprehension following a stroke would most probably be diagnosed as ________________?
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A. aphagia

B. Wernickes

C. dyslexia

D. Brocas aphasia

50. The fact that we can think without language is best illustrated in research on ___________________?
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A. mental imagery

B. the framing effect

C. algorithms

D. functional fixedness

51. According to Guilfords model of intelligence, how many dimensions of intelligence are there?
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A. 10 dimensions

B. 180 dimensions

C. three dimensions

D. 120 dimensions

52. The earliest stage of speech development is called the _________________ stage?
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A. babbling

B. telegraphic speech

C. semantic

D. one-word

53. The greatest interference occurs when old and new material are __________________?
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A. automatically processed

B. learned through disturbed practice

C. each learned on separate days

D. similar to each other

54. The type of memory with large capacity and brief duration is __________________?
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A. long-term memory

B. working memory

C. sensory memory

D. short-term memory

55. Sir Francis Galton greatly contributed to the field of psychology by developing the __________________?
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A. first laboratory

B. early neuro-anatomy procedures

C. first sensory-motor psychological tests

D. phrenology movement

56. Our short-term memory span is approximately ________________ items?
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A. 2

B. 10

C. 5

D. 7

57. Which of the following is not a mnemonic device?
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A. elaborative rehearsal

B. key word method

C. narrative chaining

D. method of Loci

58. The efficiency of memory can be increased if we organize information so that the amount of information in each unit increases while the number of separate units decreases. This process is called _________________?
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A. chunking

B. encoding

C. rehearsal

D. retrieval

59. The ability of young children to use two-word sentences is referred to as __________________?
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A. morpheme induction

B. aphasia

C. babbling

D. telegraphic speech

60. Which of the following is an example of reinforcement?
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A. all of the above

B. presenting a positive stimulus after a response

C. removing an unpleasant stimulus after a response

D. being told that you have done a good job

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