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.

The semicircular canals are most directly relevant to:

A Hearing

B Accommodation

C Parallel processing

D The vestibular sense

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Correct Answer: The vestibular sense

If a 100-Hz tone had to be increased to 110 Hz for a subject to just notice the difference, you would predict that a 1000-Hz tone would have to be increased to:

A 1250 to be noticed

B 1200 to be noticed

C 1010 to be noticed

D 1100 to be noticed

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Correct Answer: 1100 to be noticed

Sensory adaptation refers to:

A Diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus

B Adjustment in the opening of the eye

C The process by which stimulus energies are changed into neural impulses

D Changes in the shape of the lens as it focuses on objects

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Correct Answer: Diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus

After having your picture taken with a yellow flash, you momentarily see blue sports floating before your eyes. This phenomenon is best explained by:

A Additive color mixing

B Opponent-process theory

C Additive color mixing

D Trichromatic theory

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Correct Answer: Opponent-process theory

Small distortions in the eye’s shape are most likely to affect:

A Parallel processing

B Feature detectors

C Sensory adaptation

D Visual acuity

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Correct Answer: Visual acuity

The McGurk effect best illustrates:

A Color constancy

B Sensory interaction

C The rubber-hand illusion

D Phantom limb sensations

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Correct Answer: Sensory interaction

The structure of that transduces sound vibrations into nerve impulses is the:

A Temporal lobe

B Cochlea

C Oval window

D Stirrup

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Correct Answer: Cochlea

Television sets are able to recreate the entire visible spectrum by additively mixing three primary colors. This process is similar to the view of human color vision called:

A Complementary color theory

B Trichromatic theory

C Opponent-process theory

D Saturation theory

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Correct Answer: Trichromatic theory

Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have:

A Poor vision in bright light

B No color vision

C Poor vision in low illumination

D More accurate depth perception

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Correct Answer: No color vision

Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to______as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to:

A Sensory interaction; feature detection

B Sensation; perception

C Absolute threshold; difference threshold

D The just noticeable difference; accommodation

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Correct Answer: Sensation; perception

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The semicircular canals are most directly relevant to:

If a 100-Hz tone had to be increased to 110 Hz for a subject to just notice the difference, you would predict that a 1000-Hz tone would have to be increased to:

Sensory adaptation refers to:

After having your picture taken with a yellow flash, you momentarily see blue sports floating before your eyes. This phenomenon is best explained by:

Small distortions in the eye’s shape are most likely to affect:

The McGurk effect best illustrates:

The structure of that transduces sound vibrations into nerve impulses is the:

Television sets are able to recreate the entire visible spectrum by additively mixing three primary colors. This process is similar to the view of human color vision called:

Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have:

Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to______as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to: