Psychology Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams | Psychology Quiz Set 56

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

2 Which of the following internal conditions determine perceptual process ?

1. Intelligence

2. Emotion

3. Motivation

4. Information

3 Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale has eleven subtests out of which

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

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.

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.

7 Ventromedial nucleus, a central area on the underside of the hypothalamus, lead to

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.

9 A person, otherwise limited in mental ability, has amazing specific skills. This is because of

10 A man borrows money and forgets to pay it back because paying back is painful. This is an example of

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

12 The location of the optic nerve exit point from the retina of the eye is called as

13 For an intelligence test, while computing item-remainder correlations for item analysis, we compute

14 Which of the following personality psychologist does not fall in the group of humanistic approaches of personality ?

15 A subject has a T score (Mean = 50; SD = 10) of 40 on an abstract reasoning test. The corresponding percentile rank would be