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This section includes 1405 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Logical and Verbal Reasoning knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1151. |
Interpreting sensory information as meaningful pattern can be defined as_________________ |
| A. | closure |
| B. | sensation |
| C. | gestalt psychology |
| D. | perception |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1152. |
The principle of stereoscopic vision is based on _________________ |
| A. | accommodation |
| B. | convergence |
| C. | retinal image |
| D. | retinal disparity |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1153. |
Who said “An objective psychologist would be restricted to observing overt responses”: ____________ |
| A. | wundt |
| B. | kohler |
| C. | titchener |
| D. | watson |
| Answer» C. titchener | |
| 1154. |
The most effective procedure is CS-US pairing is to present _________________ |
| A. | cs before us |
| B. | cs after us |
| C. | cs along with us |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. cs after us | |
| 1155. |
The process by which certain infant animals learn to follow or approach the first moving object is __________ |
| A. | instinct |
| B. | reflex |
| C. | imprinting |
| D. | generalization |
| Answer» D. generalization | |
| 1156. |
Rapid low amplitude brain wave that are linked to feelings of relaxation is __________________ |
| A. | alpha waves |
| B. | beta waves |
| C. | gamma waves |
| D. | delta waves |
| Answer» B. beta waves | |
| 1157. |
The theory that perceptual world is in large measure constructed from experience is called _________ |
| A. | adaptation level |
| B. | transactionalism |
| C. | arousal theory |
| D. | vascualr theory |
| Answer» C. arousal theory | |
| 1158. |
The process of organizing environmental stimuli into some meaningful patterns or wholes is known as ________________________ |
| A. | sensation |
| B. | attention |
| C. | perception |
| D. | illusion |
| Answer» D. illusion | |
| 1159. |
Escape learning is an example of _______________ |
| A. | positive reinforcement |
| B. | negative reinforcement |
| C. | positive punishment |
| D. | negative punishment |
| Answer» C. positive punishment | |
| 1160. |
_______________________ is the smallest difference between two stimuli that can be reliablydetected or discriminated. |
| A. | differential threshold |
| B. | absolute threshold |
| C. | point of subjective equality |
| D. | intensity |
| Answer» B. absolute threshold | |
| 1161. |
Which of the following is a cognitive learning? |
| A. | motor learning |
| B. | serial learning |
| C. | insight learning |
| D. | classical conditioning |
| Answer» D. classical conditioning | |
| 1162. |
The concept of “Tabula Rasa” was proposed by _________________ |
| A. | kohler |
| B. | thorndike |
| C. | john locke |
| D. | skinner |
| Answer» D. skinner | |
| 1163. |
Retinal disparity is ____________________cue of depth perception. |
| A. | binaural |
| B. | monaural |
| C. | binocular |
| D. | monocular |
| Answer» D. monocular | |
| 1164. |
____________________ is defined as any relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as aresult of practice or experience. |
| A. | learning |
| B. | cognition |
| C. | perception |
| D. | attention |
| Answer» B. cognition | |
| 1165. |
_____________________ psychologists views that the organization and relationship of elementsdetermine the mental experience a person has. |
| A. | gestalt |
| B. | structuralism |
| C. | humanistic |
| D. | cognitive |
| Answer» C. humanistic | |
| 1166. |
___________________ is the awareness of the distance between an observer and an object. |
| A. | depth perception |
| B. | depth analysis |
| C. | size perception |
| D. | shape perception |
| Answer» B. depth analysis | |
| 1167. |
Cessation of breath during sleep is called as _____________ |
| A. | apnea |
| B. | insomnia |
| C. | narcolepsy |
| D. | hypersomnia |
| Answer» B. insomnia | |
| 1168. |
The process through which information stored in memory is referred as __________________ |
| A. | retrieval |
| B. | encoding |
| C. | storage |
| D. | semantic memory |
| Answer» D. semantic memory | |
| 1169. |
_________________ founded the first psychological laboratory. |
| A. | i.pavlov |
| B. | wilhelm wundt |
| C. | j.b.watson |
| D. | william james |
| Answer» C. j.b.watson | |
| 1170. |
__________________ is an opening near the terminal end of the cochlea, where the scala tympanicommunicate with the scala vestibule. |
| A. | foves |
| B. | helicotrema |
| C. | hair cells |
| D. | otoconia |
| Answer» C. hair cells | |
| 1171. |
A collection of structures in the telecephalon, concerned with the control of emotional reactivity, isreferred as____________________ |
| A. | neocortex |
| B. | cortex |
| C. | limbic system |
| D. | brain stem |
| Answer» D. brain stem | |
| 1172. |
________________ is the founder of psychoanalysis. |
| A. | adler |
| B. | watson |
| C. | freud |
| D. | jung |
| Answer» D. jung | |
| 1173. |
________________ is the layer of tissue in the utricle that contains the hair cell receptors. |
| A. | otoconia |
| B. | corti |
| C. | optic disc |
| D. | macula |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1174. |
The point on the ventral surface of the brain where the optic nerves from each eye merge togetherthen separate as they continue in the visual pathway, is called________________ |
| A. | optic chiasma |
| B. | optic disc |
| C. | optic pathway |
| D. | occipital lobe |
| Answer» B. optic disc | |
| 1175. |
The fissure in the neocortex separating the temporal and parietal lobes is called_____________ |
| A. | fissure of sylvius |
| B. | fissure of rolando |
| C. | follicle cells |
| D. | fastigal nucleus |
| Answer» B. fissure of rolando | |
| 1176. |
The fissure in the neocortex separating the frontal and parietal lobes is known as ____________ |
| A. | fissure of sylvius |
| B. | fissure of rolando |
| C. | follicle cells |
| D. | fastigal nucleus |
| Answer» C. follicle cells | |
| 1177. |
___________ is impairment in the ability to recognize faces, due to damage in the right hemisphere. |
| A. | facial agnosia |
| B. | facial apraxia |
| C. | facial aphasia |
| D. | enkephalin |
| Answer» B. facial apraxia | |
| 1178. |
A scientific discipline dedicated to the understanding of the nervous system is referred as the _______ |
| A. | physiology |
| B. | neurology |
| C. | psychiatry |
| D. | neuroscience |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1179. |
__________________ is a fat and protein substance surrounding some axons in the nervous system,arranged as a series of segments along the length of the axon. |
| A. | naloxon |
| B. | nodes of ranvier |
| C. | myelin sheath |
| D. | spindle |
| Answer» D. spindle | |
| 1180. |
The structures in the synaptic knobs that store neurotransmitters prior to the release ofneurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft, is _________________________ |
| A. | synaptic knob |
| B. | synaptic vesicle |
| C. | synaptic space |
| D. | nodes of ranvier |
| Answer» C. synaptic space | |
| 1181. |
The space in the synapse that lies between the presynaptic axon and postsynaptic soma or dendrite, is _______________________ |
| A. | synaptic vesicle |
| B. | synaptic knob |
| C. | synaptic cleft |
| D. | synapse space |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1182. |
_____________________ is a portion of the dendrite involved in axodendritic synaptic communication. |
| A. | dendritic spine |
| B. | dentate nucleus |
| C. | cross-cuing |
| D. | contrecercep |
| Answer» B. dentate nucleus | |
| 1183. |
The portion of the axon that is located immediately outside the boundaries of the soma is __________ |
| A. | end buttons |
| B. | axon hillock |
| C. | axoaxonic |
| D. | axon collateral |
| Answer» C. axoaxonic | |
| 1184. |
__________________ is a portion of the axon after it has subdivided just prior to the synaptic knobs. |
| A. | basal ganglia |
| B. | axon hillock |
| C. | end buttons |
| D. | axon collateral |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1185. |
The process by which an image is kept in focus on the surface of the retina while the object beingviewed varies in distance from the eye is referred as the ____________________ |
| A. | retinal disparity |
| B. | autonomic |
| C. | accommodation |
| D. | phi phenomena |
| Answer» B. autonomic | |
| 1186. |
________________ referring to a pair of muscles with the same effects at a joint. |
| A. | adipose |
| B. | agonistic |
| C. | atropine |
| D. | agenesis |
| Answer» C. atropine | |
| 1187. |
Action potential constitutes the ‘firing’ of the neuron and is also referred to as the ________________ |
| A. | nerve impulse |
| B. | synapse |
| C. | threshold |
| D. | refractory period |
| Answer» B. synapse | |
| 1188. |
Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief thatyou remember something when it never actually happened is _________________ |
| A. | flash bulb |
| B. | confabulation |
| C. | misattribution |
| D. | eyewitness |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1189. |
The change from the resting nerve membrane potential of approximately -70mV to a new +40mV is ___________________________ |
| A. | action potential |
| B. | refractory period |
| C. | resting potential |
| D. | all or none law |
| Answer» B. refractory period | |
| 1190. |
The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one’s own belief is ______ |
| A. | confirmation bias |
| B. | hindsight bias |
| C. | justification bias |
| D. | cognitive bias |
| Answer» B. hindsight bias | |
| 1191. |
An operant-conditioning process in which successive approximations of a desired response arereinforced _____________________ |
| A. | shaping |
| B. | extinction |
| C. | modelling |
| D. | instinctive drift |
| Answer» B. extinction | |
| 1192. |
The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction ___________________ |
| A. | generalization |
| B. | discrimination |
| C. | spontaneous recovery |
| D. | stimulus gradient |
| Answer» D. stimulus gradient | |
| 1193. |
A basic kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and the organism’sresponses ____________________ |
| A. | trial and error |
| B. | conditioning |
| C. | cognitive |
| D. | insight |
| Answer» C. cognitive | |
| 1194. |
The smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuliare compared, is ____________________ |
| A. | absolute threshold |
| B. | sensation |
| C. | perception |
| D. | difference threshold |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1195. |
The dimension of auditory experience related to the intensity of a pressure wave, is _________ |
| A. | binatural cue |
| B. | loudness |
| C. | pitch |
| D. | timbre |
| Answer» D. timbre | |
| 1196. |
The accurate perception of objects as stable or unchanged despite changes in the sensory patternsthey produce, is ____________________ |
| A. | convergence |
| B. | retinal disparity |
| C. | monocular cues |
| D. | perceptual constancy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1197. |
The smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer is _____________ |
| A. | absolute threshold |
| B. | sensation |
| C. | perception |
| D. | difference threshold |
| Answer» B. sensation | |
| 1198. |
A descriptive study that looks for a consistent relationship between two phenomena is referred as ______________ |
| A. | field study |
| B. | survey |
| C. | correlational study |
| D. | experimental |
| Answer» D. experimental | |
| 1199. |
A ________________ study is a detailed description of a particular individual, based on carefulobservation or on formal psychological testing. |
| A. | observational |
| B. | experimental |
| C. | field |
| D. | case |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1200. |
A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena is ________________ |
| A. | theory |
| B. | hypothesis |
| C. | definition |
| D. | skepticism |
| Answer» B. hypothesis | |