Psychology Question Paper For IAS Civil Services Exams

Psychology Question Paper For IAS Civil Services Exams
IAS  Psychology Practice Paper

1. The idea of ‘levels of processing’ is given by ………. .

(a) Craik & Lockhart (1972)

(b) Tulving (1972)

(c) Quillian (1966)

(d) Sternberg (1966)

Ans. (a)

2. We forget because learning new things interferes with our memory of what we learned earlier, is example of ……….. .

(a) Retrieval

(b) Decay

(c) Interference

(d) Motivation

Ans. (c)

3. Auditory register holds information, upto about ……… .

(a) 4 or 5 seconds

(b) 5 or 6 seconds

(c) 6 or 7 seconds

(d) 7 or 8 seconds

Ans. (a)

4. The symptoms of primary degenerative dementia begin in ………….. .

(a) Old age

(b) Middle age

(c) Young age

(d) All of the above

Ans. (b)

5. The inability to encode and store new information in memory is known as ……….. .

(a) Dream Amnesia

(b) Defensive Amnesia

(c) Childhood Amnesia

(d) Anterograde Amnesia

Ans. (d)

6. Without any known brain malfunction, amnesias result from major disturbances in the process of information encoding, storage

        and retrieval is known as ………… .

(a) Psychological amnesia

(b) Dream amnesia

(c) Biological amnesia

(d) Defensive amnesia

Ans. (a)

7. The technique which is used in short-term memory (STM) experiment is known as ………… .

(a) Free recall

(b) Recall

(c) Recognition

(d) Rehearsal

Ans. (a)

8. An encoding process, a storage process and a …………. have been identified as the process of memory.

(a) Retrieval process

(b) Information process

(c) Cognitive process

(d) Memory process

Ans. (a)

9. The process through which information coming from senses is “transformed, reduced, elaborated, recovered, and used”, is

         …………. .

(a) Recognition

(b) Recall

(c) Cognition

(d) Memory

Ans. (c)

10. Techniques for improving memory are termed as ……….. .

(a) Mnemonics

(b) Loci

(c) Imagining

(d) Chunking

Ans. (a)

11. A form of primary degenerative dementia characterised by progressive mental deterioration is named ……… .

(a) Korsakoff syndrome

(b) Alzheimer’s disease

(c) Multiple Sclerosis

(d) Brain tumors

Ans. (b)

12. Memories which can last for days, months, years or even a life time are stored in …………. .

(a) Short-term memory

(b) Long-term memory

(c) Semantic memory

(d) Episodic

Ans. (b)

13. ………… . memory contains words, sentences, ideas, concepts and the life experiences which we have.

(a) Short-term

(b) Long-term

(c) Semantic

(d) Episodic

Ans. (b)

14. Which of the following colors’ is not included in the category of hues?

(a) Black

(b) White

(c) Grey

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

15. Who demonstrated that economic deprivation affects perception?

(a) Broota and Ganguli

(b) Bruner and Goodman

(c) Segall

(d) Hers kovits

Ans. (b)

16. Misperceptions resulting from misinterpretation of information received by our sensory organs are known as

(a) Delusions

(b) Illusions

(c) Hallucinations

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

17. Who among the following has defined perception as a complex of sensory and

imaginal elements?

(a) Kimbel

(b) Titchener

(c) Bruner

(d) Schafer

Ans. (b)

18. The process of converting physical energy into nervous-system activity is called

(a) Transduction

(b) Transformation

(c) Transplantation

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

19. The term generator potential refers to

(a) The electrical event that bypasses nerve impulses

(b) The electrical event that triggers nerve impulses

(c) Non-electrical event that triggers nerve impulses

(d) Electrical event that triggers neurons

Ans. (b)

20. Consider the following statements

I. Brightness is a major dimension of visual experience

2. Other things being equal, the intensity of the physical stimulus is the major determiner of brightness sensations

3. The dimension of brightness extends from black to white and through various shades of grey

Which of the above statements are correct?

(a) Only 1

(b) Only 3

(c) 2 and 3

(d) 1, 2 and 3

Ans. (d)

21. Which of the following statements is correct?

(a) The experience of pitch depends upon the place at which the organ of Corti is most stimulated

(b) The afferent code for the pitch of higher frequencies is largely a spatial one

(c) For frequencies above 1500 hertz pitch depends upon the fact that different portions of the organ of code n the basilar membrane are maximally stimulated by different frequencies

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

22. The most important Binocular cue comes from the fact that

(a) The two eyes receive slightly different views of the world

(b) The two eyes receive the same view of the world

(c) There is retinal parity

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

23. The stability of the environment as we perceive it is termed as

(a) Perceptual constancy

(b) Perceptual stability

(c) Perceptual vision

(d) Perceptual organization\

Ans. (a)

24. If a person stares at, or fixates on, a small stationary spot of light in a completely dark room, the spot will eventually appear to move. This can be explained, in terms of the

(a) Induced movement

(b) Autokinetic effect

(c) Stroboscopic motion

(d) Real motion

Ans. (b)

25. __________is the time in the early development of a person or animal during which the environment has its greatest effection behaviour or on the brain processes underlying behaviour

(a) Plasticity

(b) Deprivation

(c) Sensitive period

(d) Visual period

Ans. (c)