psychology MCQs – Page 9

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

161. Who would be most concerned with the development of imagery and verbal systems in the infant, and how they are interwoven?
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A. Miller

B. Skinner

C. Brown

D. Bruner

162. The first systematic study of operant conditioning was performed in 1938 by _______________?
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A. E. L. Thorndike

B. B. F. Skinner

C. A. Bandura

D. I. Pavlov

163. Psychologists who study ESP are called _________________?
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A. levitators

B. parapsychologists

C. telepaths

D. clairvoyants

164. If illusion is a misperception of stimulus then hallucination is ___________________?
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A. auto-kinesis

B. accurate perception of an external stimulus

C. delusion

D. response in the absence of external stimulus

165. Which of the following types of learning cannot be directly observed?
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A. operant conditioning

B. perceptual learning

C. verbal learning

D. response learning

166. Two individuals who developed from one zygote are known as _________________?
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A. b and c

B. identical twins

C. homozygous twins

D. heterozygous twins

167. Gibson and Walk used a visual cliff experiment to study ______________?
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A. depth perception

B. feature detection

C. figure-ground discrimination

D. signal detection theory

168. The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?
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A. discrimination

B. generalization

C. acquisition

D. shaping

169. In closure, we tend to ______________________?
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A. prefer differential contours

B. complete figures that have a gap in them

C. associate the distal and proximal stimuli

D. view on the basis of texture gradient

170. Which of the following explains why cartoons are not perceived as a series of still frames?
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A. Motion parallax

B. Autokinetic effect

C. The Muller-Lyer illusion

D. the phi phenomenon

171. The part of the eye where vision is more acute is the ________________?
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A. cornea

B. iris

C. retina

D. fovea

172. Auditory sensations are transformed from air waves to nerve impulses by the _________________?
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A. round window

B. pinna

C. cochlea

D. vestibular system

173. The union of an egg and a sperm produces ________________?
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A. a clone

B. a phenotype

C. a zygote

D. an allele

174. Which of the following is not a Gestalt Law of Organization?
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A. proximity

B. closure

C. all of the above

D. continuation

175. The colored portion of the eye is called the ______________?
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A. lens

B. cornea

C. pupil

D. iris

176. Under which of the following reinforcement schedules is it most important for an organism to learn to estimate time accurately?
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A. fixed interval

B. fixed ratio

C. variable ratio

D. variable interval

177. Which parenting style usually produces children with greatest confidence and self-esteem?
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A. authoritative

B. permissive

C. Authoritarian

D. rejecting-neglecting

178. Stationary lights on a neon sign blink sequentially and appear to move. This appearance is called the ________________?
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A. Necker illusion

B. Ponzo illusion

C. phi-phenomenon

D. induced movement effect

179. What is not one of Gestalt Psychologys five laws of form perception?
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A. proximity

B. similarity

C. closure

D. relative size

180. A disorder called ___________ results when fluid pressure builds up inside the eye and causes damage to the optic nerve?
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A. glaucoma

B. prosopagnia

C. dyslexia

D. achromatospia

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