psychology MCQs – Page 8

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

151. The word meanings and other general knowledge stored in a persons memory are considered ________________ information?
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A. semantic

B. pre-attentive

C. episodic

D. procedural

152. Musa is attractive and assertive. He arrives at work on time each day, and never complains. When his coworkers are asked to assess Musas intelligence, they consistently rate him much higher than his scores on intelligence test. This is an example of _____________________?
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A. the fundamental attribution

B. the placebo effect

C. the mere exposure effect

D. the halo effect
153. A personal selection test that requires previous knowledge and mastery of a given body of materials, in effect is __________________?
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A. a test of creativity

B. an aptitude test

C. an intelligence test

D. an achievement test
154. A stationary point of light when viewed in an otherwise totally dark room appears to move. This is an example of ________________?
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A. binocular disparity

B. apparent motion

C. induced motion

D. the autokinetic effect
155. One of the earliest and most important color vision theories was formulated by _________________?
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A. Rutherford and Young

B. Young and Helmholtz

C. Young and Helson

D. Meissner and Middleton

156. The taste buds on the tip of the tongue are most sensitive to ________________?
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A. sour tastes

B. salty tastes

C. sweet tastes

D. bitter tastes

157. A child in Piagets preoperational stage is given a toy and attempts to eat it. This child is demonstrating ____________?
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A. transition

B. accommodation

C. generalization

D. assimilation
158. Any process that increases the likelihood that a particular operant response will occur again is called ________________?
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A. punishment

B. reinforcement

C. chaining

D. discrimination

159. According to Piagets theory of cognitive development, middle childhood is characterized by ______________?
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A. egocentric thinking

B. deductive thinking

C. hypothetical reasoning

D. concrete operations
160. A person thinks that he sees a snake moving stealthily through the weeds on a distant field. As he gets closer, he discovers that it was only a dark piece of rope. This perceptual phenomenon is known as ________________?
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A. telekinesis

B. hallucinations

C. illusion

D. delusion