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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