psychology MCQs – Page 5

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
81. Those items that are most likely to be forgotten are those ___________________?
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A. at the end of a long list

B. at the beginning of a long list

C. in the middle of a long list

D. with the least digits/letters

82. In order to obtain a reward, a monkey learns to press a lever when a bell tone is on but not when a Buzzer tone is on. What kind of training is this?
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A. discrimination

B. generalization

C. spontaneous recovery

D. extinction

83. In psychology, measurement device must be __________________?
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A. reliable

B. valid

C. conclusive

D. both a and b
84. The conscious repetition of information in order to maintain it in memory is called ___________________?
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A. chunking

B. automatic processing

C. rehearsal

D. priming

85. A mnemonic device is a ____________________?
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A. memory aid

B. technique of encoding language sounds

C. mental picture

D. test or measure of memory

86. In Pavlovs experiments, the dogs salivation triggered by the sound of the bell was a/an _________________?
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A. conditioned stimulus

B. unconditioned response

C. unconditioned stimulus

D. conditioned response
87. Which of the following terms refers to a persons accumulated knowledge and verbal skills?
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A. concrete operational intelligence

B. crystallized intelligence

C. formal operational intelligence

D. fluid intelligence

88. We are more likely to remember the words typewriter, cigarette and fire than the words void, process and inherent because the first three words are more likely to be _________________ encoded?
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A. proactively

B. automatically

C. visually

D. implicitly

89. Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fell asleep is most likely due to ____________________?
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A. encoding failure

B. motivated forgetting

C. the misinformation effect

D. retroactive interference

90. In contrast to a dissimilar-items list, a similar-items list is __________________?
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A. learned with equivalent ease

B. easier to learn

C. more susceptible to the serial position effect

D. more difficult to learn
91. The performance of which of the following activities is least likely to be facilitated by the presence of an audience?
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A. adding numbers

B. taking a final examination

C. running

D. memorizing a script
92. The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?
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A. next-in-line

B. spacing

C. misinformation

D. serial position
93. Recalling childhood birthdays is an example of which type of memory?
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A. episodic

B. None of these

C. implicit

D. procedural

94. The groupthink process is not characterized by ____________________?
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A. group cohesiveness

B. inhuman solution

C. critical thinking

D. restricted discussion

95. Which of the following is primarily a verbal test?
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A. WAIS

B. WISC C. Blacky

C. Stanford-Binet

D. None of these

96. When an infant learns to call his father daddy and then calls all men daddy, this is an example of ____________________?
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A. overgeneralization

B. under-generalization

C. over-discrimination

D. telegraphic speech

97. Intelligence tests are considered reliable __________________?
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A. before puberty

B. before 7 years of age

C. before 20 years of age

D. at any age

98. When you perform a learned skill or a habitual response, you are calling on ________________ memory?
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A. procedural

B. declarative

C. semantic

D. episodic

99. Research suggests that humans can most easily master the grammar of a second language during __________________?
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A. childhood

B. late adulthood

C. early adulthood

D. adolescence

100. In general, people attach concepts and attributes to items and events. This knowledge is used to categorize and understand new stimuli and is best known as a persons ___________________?
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A. schema

B. mental set

C. algorithm

D. heuristic