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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

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

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