Psychology Questions Paper with Solved Answers

Psychology Questions Paper with Solved Answers
Sample Paper Psychology Exams

1. In ………… people use strategies that give meaning and organization to the material so that it can be fitted in with existing

      organized long-term memories.

(a) Rehearsal

(b) Recall

(c) Elaborative rehearsal

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

2. In the method, the total number of items is correctly re-called regardless of their position in the list.

(a) Free recall

(b) Anticipation score

(c) Recognition

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

3. Mnemonics mean:

(a) The art or system of memory training

(b) The art of learning

(c) The art of cognition

(d) The process of perception

Ans. (a)

4. STM can hold

(a) 7 units of information

(b) 7 units of information plus or minus two

(c) 7 units of information plus two

(d) 5 units of information plus or minus two

Ans. (a)

5. Episodic memory deals with

(a) Interpersonal relationships

(b) Individual’s knowledge about world

(c) Individual’s personal experiences

(d) Word-meaning association

Ans. (c)

6. Elaboration in levels of processing theory refers to the:

(a) Degree to which incoming information is processed so that it can be tied to existing memories

(b) Quality to which incoming information is processed so that it can be tied to existing memories

(c) Retrieval cues which are not explicitly present in learning

(d). None of the above

Ans. (a)

7. The sensory register is a:

(a) Storage function of the sensory channels

(b) Function of nervous system

(c) Storage system of memory

(d) Sensory organ

Ans. (a)

8. The situation of feeling that we know a certain specific name or word, yet being unable

to recall it immediately, has been called the:

(a) Tip-of-the tongue state

(b) Memory failure state

(c) Tip of the lip state

(d) Slip of the tongue state

Ans. (a)

9. Maintenance rehearsal is useful for maintaining information in the:

(a) STM

(b) LTM

(c) Sensory memory

(d) Procedural memory

Ans. (a)

10. Information processing perspective is an approach to human memory:

(a) That emphasizes the encoding, storage and retrieval of information

(b) That emphasizes the coding, output and retention of information

(c) Which describes information, processing effectively?

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

11. Flash Bulb memories are the memories of:

(a) Events that are very arousing or surprising

(b) Personal dislikes

(c) Word-meaning association

(d) Inter personal relationships

Ans. (a)

12. Dual-code hypothesis was proposed by:

(a) Paivio

(b) Ebbinghaus

(c) Freud

(d) Adler

Ans. (a)

13. Procedural memory is a kind of memory which:

(a) Refers to the way we remember how things are done

(b) Includes stimulus-response associations and skilled patterns of responses

(c) Is used to acquire and retain different kinds of skills

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

14. Transient Global Amnesia, a profound memory problem:

(a) Comes a suddenly without any obvious cause and it lasts for a few hours or days before memory becomes normal again

(b) Makes the victim forget what has already been stored in memory, even though the victim is conscious and can go about the

      routine business of daily life

(c) New memories can be formed while the attack is in progress

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

15. Which of the following factors can improve memory?

(a) Encoding and storing the information

(b) Retaining it over a period of disuse

(c) Retrieving it at the time of recall

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

16. Which of the following theory of forgetting is illustrated by a story about

Stanford University’s first President, David Starr Jordan?

(a) Decay through disuse

(b) Interference effects

(c) Motivated forgetting

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

17. The storage capacity of short-term memory can be increased by a process known as:

(a) Cognitive process

(b) The saurus

(c) Chunking

(d) Retrieved

Ans. (c)

17. Who among the following was the first psychologist to develop a theory of motivated forgetting based on the observation of his

      patients?

(a) Ebbinghaus

(b) Freud

(c) Wundt

(d) Thichner

Ans. (b)

18.  Materials used in most experiments on human memory consist of simple verbal materials like:

(a) Serial list

(b) Paired associate lists

(c) Connected discourse

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

19. Which of the following memory is more widely known as iconic memory?

(a) Auditory sensory memory

(b) Visual sensory memory

(c) Short-term memory

(d) Long-term memory

Ans. (b)

20. According to Tulving, the type of LTM is:

(a) Episodic

(b) Semantic

(c) Procedural

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

21. A state that may occur during an attempt at retrieval of information from long-term memory, during which a person may

        retrieve incorrect information that is related in some way to the correct item is called ……….. .

(a) Tip-of-the Tongue (ToT) Phenomenon

(b) Semantic memory

(c) Episodic memory

(d) None of these

Ans. (a)

22. Many experiments have been conducted on imagery and memory, by using the techniques called …….. .

(a) Random technique

(b) Paired-associate technique

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of these

Ans. (b)

23. ……… refers to the degree to which incoming information is processed so that it can be tied to or integrated with, existing

        memories.

(a) Maintenance

(b) Elaboration

(c) Cognition

(d) Information

Ans. (b)

24. Visual sensory register holds information for upto about ………… .

(a) 4 seconds

(b) 3 seconds

(c) 2 seconds

(d) 1 second

Ans. (d)

25. Memories of specific things that have happened to a person are kept in ………. .

(a) Episodic memory

(b) Semantic memory

(c) Long-term memory

(d) Short-term memory

Ans. (a)