Free Online psychology Questions with Answers

Free Online psychology Questions with Answers
Free Psychology Exam Questions
1. Which of these match correctly?
1. Excitatory potential — Spencer
2. .Reactive potential — Hull
3. Sensory potential — Cannon
4. Evoked potential — Skinner
Codes—
(A) l and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) l and 3
(D) 2 and 4
Ans. (A)

2. All of the following are characteristics of short term memory except that—
(A) It is fragile and banishes if not released immediately.
(B) Unlike sensory memory in which case information is received and stored without any change or manipulation, in STM the information is coded in verbal units, along with its meaning.
(C) As revealed by experiments although only 5-9 units of information can be stored in case of STM, but chunking makes it possible to store more units than this.
(D) Chunking builds a bridge between STM and CTM
Ans. (D)
3. ‘Spelling error shows the serial position effect’ This was found by—
(A) Underwood
(B) Junkins
(C) Jensen
(D) Miller
Ans. (C)

4. Which statement is devoted through experiments of memory to Loftus and Loftus—
(a) No lack in memory trace
(b) Memory is permanent
(c) Memory storage is not permanent
(d) Memory trace disappears
Codes—
(A) Only b
(B) a and c
(C) c and d
(D) Only a
Ans. (C)

5. Memorizing a long telephone number 9837076977 by breaking it into pieces like 98-370-76-977 is an example of—
(A) Coding
(B) Mnemonics
(C) Chunking
(D) Recognizing
Ans. (C)

6. Periods of dead-level performance in the learning curve are called—
(A) plateau
(B) negative adaptation
(C) latent learning periods
(D) extinction
Ans. (A)

7. Which of the following represents the methods used for measuring size of STM?
(A) Serial position curve method
(B) Memory span method
(C) Both A and B
(D) Neither A nor B
Ans. (C)

8. At its most basic level verbal learning may be considered—
(A) The process of concept formation
(B) The process of forming verbal associations
(C) The process of rule learning.
(D) The process of skill learning
Ans. (B)

9. Peterson and Peterson (1959) using distraction technique found that the maximum duration of STM is—
(A) 20-30 sec.
(B) 18-20 sec.
(C) 15-20 sec.
(D) 15-30 sec.
Ans. (B)

10. Children learn new words for specific objects mostly by—
(A) Conditioning process
(B) Imitation
(C) Insight
(D) Trial and error
Ans. (A)

11. Which of the following is not a kind of coding information in STM?
(A) Auditory coding
(B) Acoustic coding
(C). Semantic coding
(D) Visual coding
Ans. (A)

12. According to Shlesberg (1937) association in Pavlovian conditioning is—
(A) Between CS and CR
(B) Between UCS and CR
(C) Between UCS and UCR
(D) Between CS and UCS
Ans. (D)

13. Abbreviation of PQRST—
(A) Preview, Question, Read, Self-recitation, Test.
(B) Preview, Question, Retrieval, self- recitation, Test
(C) Preview, Question, Retrieval, storage, Test
(D) Preview, Question, Read, Search, Test
Ans. (A)

14. Verbal skills are acquired on the basis of—
(A) Trial and error
(B) Imitation
(C) Reflex vocalization
(D) All of the above
Ans. (D)

15. The assertion that the STM stored items of information are displaced by the items acquired after that represents—
(A) The decay mechanism of forgetting
(B) The interference theory of forgetting
(C) The displaced theory of forgetting
(D) Neither of these
Ans. (C)

16. Which of the following is not a variable that influences conditioning process?
(A) Number of reinforcements
(B) Quality and Quantity of reinforcement
(C) Contiguity
(D) Motivational level of organism
(E) Time spent on conditioning.
Ans. (E)

17. According to Tulving (1972) long term memory is of—
(A) Episodic type
(B) Semantic type
(C) Secondary type
(D) Both episodic and semantic type
Ans. (D)

18. If two stimuli, one more powerful (CS1) and the other less powerful (CS2) are used together in Pavlovian conditioning right from the very beginning, then CS2 (less powerful or sometimes given, sometimes not given) fails to produce conditioning. This
is an example of—
(A) Overshadowing phenomenon
(B) Compounding
(C) Blocking
(D) Reinforcement shifting
Ans. (A)

19. 2 + 2 = 4 is categorized in—
(A) Iconic memory
(B) Episodic memory
(C) Semantic memory
(D) Echoic memory
Ans. (C)

20. Money, praise, status and success may be considered as—
(A) Positive incentive
(B) Most wanted reinforces
(C) Tease-situational reinforces
(D) Reinforces for some not for others
Ans. (C)
21. Memory engrams (traces) in LTM are stored by RNA. This was—
(A) The assumption of the molecular theory of biological bases of memory
(B) Revealed by the study made by Hyden and Eghazi (1963)
(C) The experiment which revealed that LTM traces are stored in the molecules of DNA
(D) The result of the experiments conduct on rat
Ans. (C)

22. Who said “there is associative shifting from CS to UCS in classical conditioning”?—
(A) Shlesberg
(B) Mowrer
(C) Soloman and Vitre
(D) Thorndike
Ans. (D)

23. All of the following are true about the relationship between knowledge of results and performance except—
(A) Practice without knowledge of results brings little or no improvement in learning / performance
(B) As revealed by some studies knowledge of result does not motivate the learner optimally to learn
(C) Knowledge of results bring about marked improvement in learning/ performance
(D) Immediate knowledge of results is superior to delayed knowledge
Ans. (B)

24. According to Gestalt psychologist, learning involves—
(A) Insight
(B) Trial & error
(C) Imitation
(D) Conditioned response
Ans. (A)

25. Abbreviation of HAM is—
(A) Humanistic average memory
(B) Human average mind
(C) Human associative memory
(D) Human attentive memory
Ans. (A)