Psychology Questions and Answers - Set 56 | Psychology Test Series

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

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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

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Answer:2 and 3 only

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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