Psychology 6096 MCQs [All-Courses]

Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior, mental processes, emotions, and personality. It is an important subject for competitive exams such as PPSC, FPSC, NTS, OTS, KPPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, CSS, and PMS.

Which combination of methods of learning and remembering information can be practiced to significantly improve transfer of information into our long-term memory store?

A Elaborative rehearsal and spaced retrieval practice

B Maintenance rehearsal and frequent retrieval practice

C Schemas and mnemonics

D Explicit and implicit retrieval

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Correct Answer: Elaborative rehearsal and spaced retrieval practice

information about how to approach familiar situations such as a day at school, washing clothes or ordering in a restaurant is organized into knowledge structures referred to as______.

A Sketches

B Schemes

C Episodes

D Schemas

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Correct Answer: Schemas

Which memory store holds information for the shortest duration?

A Sensory memory

B Short-term memory

C Long-term memory

D Explicit memory

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Correct Answer: Sensory memory

How is the encoding specificity principle related to test-taking situations?

A What will be remembered later depends on how hard people study

B What will be remembered later depends on the similarity between the test conditions and the original study conditions.

C We are more likely to rely on episodic memory when study and semantic memory when we take twests

D What will be remembered depends on how we process the information

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Correct Answer: What will be remembered later depends on the similarity between the test conditions and the original study conditions.

Sperling’s partial report procedure:

A Is a technique for inferring the capacity of a memory store, even when the memories do not last long enough to inform a complete report.

B Found that people could recall about 3 items from a row of 4 items.

C Suggested people could recall about 9 out of 12 items for a very short time.

D All of the above.

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Correct Answer: All of the above.

Memory for personally experienced events is referred to as_whereas memory for abstract knowledge irrespective of the circumstances under which it was required is referred to as_.

A Episodic, semantic

B Semantic, episodic

C Autobiographical semantic

D Autobiographical and episodic

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Correct Answer: Episodic, semantic

Priming measures how people:

A Bring information to mind in response to non-specific cues.

B Bring information to mind in response to specific cues.

C Identify information provide at test time as having been encountered previously.

D Respond differently to previously encountered information than to new information.

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Correct Answer: Respond differently to previously encountered information than to new information.

_______intelligence tests assess a wide variety of mental abilities.

A IQ

B Special

C Multiple

D General

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Correct Answer: General

________involve(s) an ability to manage your own thinking and problem solving.

A Metacognitive skills

B Experiential intelligence

C Speed of processing

D Frames of mind

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Correct Answer: Metacognitive skills

Sadiq and Tahir had an excellent time-travel adventure back to 1916. In order to come back to present sadiq (who is a little below average in intelligence needs a score of 115 on the stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, Sadiq has to convince Professor Tahir that he is_than he actually is, because the Stanford-Binet IQ was calculated as__.

A older; (mental age/chronological age 10

B younger; (mental age/chronological age 100

C older; (chronological age/mental age 10

D younger; (chronological age/mental age 10

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Correct Answer: younger; (mental age/chronological age 100

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Which combination of methods of learning and remembering information can be practiced to significantly improve transfer of information into our long-term memory store?

information about how to approach familiar situations such as a day at school, washing clothes or ordering in a restaurant is organized into knowledge structures referred to as______.

Which memory store holds information for the shortest duration?

How is the encoding specificity principle related to test-taking situations?

Sperling’s partial report procedure:

Memory for personally experienced events is referred to as_whereas memory for abstract knowledge irrespective of the circumstances under which it was required is referred to as_.

Priming measures how people:

_______intelligence tests assess a wide variety of mental abilities.

________involve(s) an ability to manage your own thinking and problem solving.

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Which combination of methods of learning and remembering information can be practiced to significantly improve transfer of information into our long-term memory store?

information about how to approach familiar situations such as a day at school, washing clothes or ordering in a restaurant is organized into knowledge structures referred to as______.

Which memory store holds information for the shortest duration?

How is the encoding specificity principle related to test-taking situations?

Sperling’s partial report procedure:

Memory for personally experienced events is referred to as_______whereas memory for abstract knowledge irrespective of the circumstances under which it was required is referred to as_______.

Priming measures how people:

_______intelligence tests assess a wide variety of mental abilities.

________involve(s) an ability to manage your own thinking and problem solving.

Memory for personally experienced events is referred to as_whereas memory for abstract knowledge irrespective of the circumstances under which it was required is referred to as_.