UPSC, IAS Pre. Psychology Sample Quiz

UPSC, IAS Pre. Test Psychology Sample Quiz
 Psychology Model Test Paper

1. Which of the following tasks is used for the study of semantic memory in the laboratory setting?

(a) Lexical decision

(b) Symbolic comparison

(c) Sentence verification

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

2. Short-term memory is also known as:

(a) Iconic memory

(b) Working memory

(c) Echoic memory

(d) Sensory memory

Ans. (d)

3. Which of the following amnesia results in temporary loss of retrieval capacity?

(a) Organic Amnesia

(b) Retrograde Amnesia

(c) Transient Amnesia

(d) Anterograde Amnesia

Ans. (b)

4. Partial or complete loss of memory is called:

(a) Agnosia

(b) Atasia

(c) Amnesia

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

5. “The forgetting in all cases is proved to be founded on a motive of displeasure” is a quotation of Sigmund Freud’s famous book

          ……… .

(a) The interpretation of Dream

(b) The psychopathology of everyday life

(c) Improving your memory

(d) Human Memory: Structures and Processes

Ans. (b)

6. Memory trace in brain is called ………… .

(a) Flash bulb

(b) Engram                                                                 

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of these

Ans. (b)

7. Forgetting caused by the prior learning of other material is called ……………. .

(a) Interference

(b) Retroactive interference

(c) Proactive interference

(d) All of the above

Ans. (c)

8. The better recall at the beginning of the list which contributes to the serial-position effect is known as ………… .

(a) Recency effect

(b) Serial position effect

(c) Primary effect

(d) Free recall

Ans. (b)

9. One of the most prominent-theory about the information-processing was developed by …………. .

(a) Buckout, R. (1974)

(b) Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)

(c) Neisser, U. (1982)

(d) Estes & Taylor (1966)

Ans. (b)

10. People use strategies that give meaning and organisation to the material so that it can be fitted in with existing organised long

        -term memories, through ……….. .

(a) Elaborative rehearsal

(b) Maintenance rehearsal

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of these

Ans. (a)

11. ………… are modifications of already stored input.

(a) Reconstructive processes

(b) Constructive processes

(c) Retroactive processes

(d) All of the above

Ans. (a)

12. Short-term Memory (STM) is memory that holds information received from the sensory register for upto ……… seconds.

(a) 29

(b) 30

(c) 35

(d) 40

Ans. (b)

13. Imagining a place such as a building or room and then associating ideas to be remembered with parts of the building or items of

        furniture in the room, is an example of

(a) Method of Loci

(b) Chunking

(c) Imagining

(d) None of these

Ans. (a)

14. A term that refers to the poor memory we have of our lives in our early years is called …………. .

(a) Dream Amnesia

(b) Defensive Amnesia

(c) Childhood Amnesia

(d) Amnesia

Ans. (c)

15. ‘Amnesia’ is a classified into two parts. First is Psychological amnesia and second is …………. .

(a) Biological amnesia

(b) Physiological amnesia

(c) Defensive amnesia

(d) All of the above

Ans. (a)

16. Alcohol-induced amnesia may be an example of ……….. .

(a) Dependent memory

(b) State-dependent memory

(c) Independent-memory

(d) State-Independent memory

Ans. (b)

17. An encoding process in which items of informations are grouped together in short- term memory is ………… .

(a) Number and letter peg system

(b) Methods of Loci

(c) Chunking

(d) None of these

Ans. (c)

18. A view of cognitive activity stressing the input of information, its transformation, its storage and its eventual output is called

        ……….. .

(a) Information-processing theories

(b) Information-processing theories of memory

(c) Information-processing theories of intelligence

(d) Information-processing theories of attention

Ans. (a)

19. Putting coded information into memory is ………….. .

(a) Retrieval

(b) Encoding

(c) Storage

(d) None of these

Ans. (c)

20. Receiving sensory input and transforming it into a form or code, which can be stored, is the process of …………. .

(a) Storage

(b) Encoding

(c) Retrieval

(d) Information

Ans. (b)

21. A type of amnesia which is usually considered to be a way of protecting oneself from the guilt of anxiety that can result from

        intense, intolerable life situations and conflicts, is ………… .

(a) Dream Amnesia

(b) Childhood Amnesia

(c) Defensive Amnesia

(d) Only (a) and (b)

Ans. (c)

22. Who used the “repression” concept to account for childhood amnesia?

(a) Adler

(b) Jung

(c) Hall

(d) Freud

Ans. (d)

23. Difficulty with the retrieval of unpleasant, anxiety-provoking information stored in long term memory is

        called ………. .

(a) Motivated forgetting

(b) Motivational conflict

(c) Motivational cycle

(d) Motive

Ans. (a)

24 ‘Repression’ is the example of ……….. .

(a) Forgetting

(b) Motivated forgetting

(c) Retrieval problems

(d) All of the above

Ans. (b)

25. A faint copy of the visual input which persists in the visual sensory register for a few seconds before it gradually decays, is called

        ……….. .

(a) Auditory register

(b) Visual sensory register

(c) Iconic image

(d) Sensory register

Ans. (c)