NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Psychology MCQs (Practice_Test 13 of 68)
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- In the case of human development, the strongest evidence for the critical-period hypothesis is found in
- Imprinting
- Language acquisition
- Embryonic development
- Development of vocational interests
- Which one set of the following psychologists developed a theory that early experience affect adult behaviour?
- Freud, Watson and Harlow
- Freud and Harlow
- Watson and Freud
- Harlow and Watson
- Parallel lines such as railways tracks appear to converge on a distant point called vanishing point. This phenomenon is explained by the principle of
- Relative size
- Inter position
- Linear perspective
- Aerial perspective
- Match List-I (Visual Cues) with List-II (Perceptual process) and select the correct answer:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Psychology MCQs (Practice_Test 13 of 68) List-I List-II - Visual angle
- Proximity
- Motion parallax
- Visual cliff
- Perceptual organization
- Depth perception
- Size constancy
- Illusion
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 4
- Consider the following statements: A person, put in a dark solitary room for several hours, seems to have lost his perception of time because of
- loss of all sensory threshold.
- absence of any primary sensory cue.
- appearance of temporal illusion.
- Which of the above statement is/are correct?
- 3 only
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1,2 and 3
- The binocular depth cue that depends on the distance between the eye refers to
- Illusion
- Movement
- Convergence
- Retinal disparity
- In our estimate of the actual size of objects, our brain takes two factors into account. These are
- Constancies and illusions
- Object size and apparent distance
- Object size and retinal size
- Retinal size and apparent distance
- Dark adaptation is a process in which the eyes get more sensitive to
- Green light
- Coloured lights
- Light with bright illumination
- Light with low illumination
- In an application of the principles of perceptual illusion of a highway safety problem, lines are painted on a road. If the intent is to slow drivers down, how should the lines be painted across the highway?
- Equally spaced
- At random intervals
- Increasingly close together
- Farther and farther apart
- Motivated forgetting in perception is due to
- Repression
- Displacement
- Sublimation
- Reaction formation
- Which one of the following factors is most important in our being selective?
- Perceptual set
- Attitudinal attributes
- Motivational characteristics
- Personality dimensions
- Pilots tend to rely more their instruments than on their perception because of
- The absence of any real-motion perception
- Their apparent movement perception
- The illusion of induced movement of objects
- The strict flight instructions given to them
- Simultaneous presentation of stimuli other than those used in the conditioning, reduces the size of conditioned response. This is known as
- Discrimination
- Generalization
- External inhibition
- Shaping
- Which one of the following statements explain the incidental learning?
- Learning without actually trying to attain a goal
- Learning in the absence of ostensible reinforcement
- Learning without the knowledge of the relationship between the response and the reinforcement
- Learning in the absence of changes in the perception or discriminations
- Attending college in order to pursue a career at a latest stage, can best be explained by
- Drive theory
- Arousal theory
- Expectancy theory
- Optimal theory