psychology MCQs – Page 7

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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