Competitive Exams: Psychology MCQs (Practice_Test 54 of 68)
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- Consider the following statements: Primary effects are stronger when
- category names are used
- there is visual similarity
- common abstract categories are involved
- prime and object belong to the same category
Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- 1 and 3 only
- In wartime, soldiers remain in camouflage using which one of the following principles of perception?
- Proximity
- Grouping
- Common fate
- Figure and ground
- Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List-I (Type of Conditioning) List-II (Consequence) - Delayed conditioning
- Trace conditioning
- Simultaneous conditioning
- Backward conditioning
- The CS is presented first and ends before the onset of the UCS
- The CS and UCS begin together
- The onset of UCS precedes the onset of the CS
- The CS is presented and continued at least until the onset of the UCS
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 3
- Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List-I (Concept) List-II (Explanation) - Cognitive map
- Observational learning
- Behavioural modification
- Classical conditioning
- Seeing a violent film and hitting
- Acquisition of associations between stimuli and responses
- Mental representation of spatial locations and directions
- Promoting the frequency of desirable behaviours
- Learning to do a new activity in order to get a reward
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 4
- 2
- 5
- 1
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 5
- 2
- 3
- 2
- 4
- 1
- Instrumental conditioning involves which one of the following?
- One-shot learning
- Incidental learning
- Trial and error learning
- Associative learning
- Which one of the following is mostly used in modelling technique?
- Cognitive therapy
- Training mentally retarded
- Assertiveness training
- Representing important features of any phenomenon
- A new behaviour is learned but is not shown until appropriate reinforcement is presented. This is an instance of which one of the following?
- Observational learning
- Latent learning
- Insightful learning
- Trial and error learning
- Principles of operant conditioning can be applied to which of the following?
- Precision teaching
- Computer assisted instruction
- Treating Anorexia Nervosa
- Solving socially significant issues in our communities
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- 1 and 2 only
- 2,3 and 4 only
- 1,3 and 4 only
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- Which of the following are likely to be associated with the formation of memory traces in the brain?
- RNA
- DNA
- Newly generated neurons
- New dendritic growth
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1 and 4
- 3 and 4
- The neural mechanism for short-term memory is explained in terms of which one of the following?
- Hebbian synapse
- Reverberating circuits
- Phase sequences
- mRNA
- Consider the following statements: Forgetting can be explained as due to
- interference
- decay
- disuse
- lack of motivation
Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1 and 4 only
- 1,2 and 3 only
- 2,3 and 4 only
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- We remember information best in an environment that is the same as or similar to where we initially learned it. What is this termed as?
- Episodic memory
- Encoding specificity
- Memory by experience
- Working memory
- Serial position effect in memory is least evident in which method of memory assessment?
- Free recall
- Serial recall
- Recognition
- Relearning
- Match List-1 with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List-I (Type of Memory) List-II (Process) - Episodic memory
- Semantic memory
- Procedural memory
- Declarative memory
- Remembering how a task is done
- Store of knowledge and information
- Information store about personal experiences
- Remembering what happened
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 2
- A person first prepared for his test in French and then learned Spanish. He found that he had difficulty in recalling the Spanish translation of a word because all he could think of was its French equivalent. This is the case of:
- Atrophy through disuse
- Spontaneous recovery
- Retroactive interference
- Proactive interference