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(1) As we enter a movie theatre from bright light the visual sensitivity increases and within 5-10 minutes we are able to see under low levels of illumination. This is due to
(1) Visual acuity
(2) Dark adaptation
(3) Saturation
(4) Transduction
Answer: Dark adaptation
(2) Which of the following internal conditions determine perceptual process ?

1. Intelligence

2. Emotion

3. Motivation

4. Information

Codes:

(1) 1 and 2 only
(2) 2 and 3 only
(3) 2 and 4 only
(4) 1 and 4 only
Answer: 2 and 3 only

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(3) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale has eleven subtests out of which
(1) five are verbal and six are performance.
(2) six are verbal and five are performance.
(3) seven are verbal and four are performance.
(4) four are verbal and seven are performance.
Answer: six are verbal and five are performance.
(4) What is the correct sequence of memory processes ? Indicate your answer using the codes given below :

1. Encoding

2. Storage

3. Attention

4. Retrieval

Codes:

(1) 3, 1, 2, 4
(2) 2, 3, 1, 4
(3) 1, 3, 2, 4
(4) 3, 2, 1, 4
Answer: 3, 1, 2, 4
(5) Read the following two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Biderman’s ‘recognition by components’ theory states that objects can be thought of as being composed of basic building blocks called Geons.

Reason (R) : The relationship between features and geons does not exist. Geons are not composed of features such as edges, corners etc.

Codes:

(1) (A) and (R) are false.
(2) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(4) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Answer: (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(6) Read each of the following two statements – Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : People just coldly store and retrieve bits of data.

Reason (R) : Psychologists recognize that people reconstruct their own version of the past.

Codes:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of(A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(4) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Answer: (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(7) Ventromedial nucleus, a central area on the underside of the hypothalamus, lead to

Codes:

(1) Excessive eating
(2) Stop-eating
(3) Stop sex
(4) Excessive obesity
Answer: Stop-eating
(8) Read each of the following two statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes below :

Assertion (A) : According to interference theory of forgetting, forgetting is caused due to the intervening task which occurs between original task and its recall.

Reason (R) : The intervening task weaken the memory trace.

Codes:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(9) A person, otherwise limited in mental ability, has amazing specific skills. This is because of
(1) Academic under-achievement
(2) Practical Intelligence
(3) Academic over-achievement
(4) Savant Syndrome
Answer: Savant Syndrome
(10) A man borrows money and forgets to pay it back because paying back is painful. This is an example of
(1) Repression
(2) Reaction Formation
(3) Regressia
(4) Rationalization
Answer: Repression
(11) Whenever daughter performs well in her studies she receives a chocolate from parents but her brother is given a chocolate only when he gets the highest marks in the class. This is a paradigm of
(1) Positive and negative reinforcement.
(2) Primary and secondary reinforcement.
(3) Continuous and secondary reinforcement.
(4) Continuous and partial reinforcement.
Answer: Continuous and partial reinforcement.
(12) The location of the optic nerve exit point from the retina of the eye is called as
(1) Bipolar cell
(2) Fovea
(3) Blind spot
(4) Cone
Answer: Blind spot
(13) For an intelligence test, while computing item-remainder correlations for item analysis, we compute
(1) Phi-coefficient
(2) Spearman rho
(3) Tetrachoric correlation
(4) Point-biserial correlation
Answer: Point-biserial correlation
(14) Which of the following personality psychologist does not fall in the group of humanistic approaches of personality ?
(1) Carl Rogers
(2) Rollo May
(3) Martin Saligman
(4) Abraham Maslow
Answer: Martin Saligman
(15) A subject has a T score (Mean = 50; SD = 10) of 40 on an abstract reasoning test. The corresponding percentile rank would be
(1) 16
(2) 34
(3) 40
(4) 84
Answer: 16

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