UPSC Psychology Objective Sample Paper

UPSC Psychology Objective Sample Paper
MCQ Objective Test Paper Psychology

1. The most prominent and influential models of information-processing theory are developed by:

(a) Richard Atkinson and N.R. Carlson

(b) Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin

(c) Richard Shiffrin and N.R. Carlson

(d None of the above

Ans. (b)

2.  ……………. Used the term ‘constructive memory’ to refer to an individual’s tendency to rebuild pictures of past events from the

       few details remembered by filling in details that have been forgotten.

(a) F.C. Bartlett

(b) Hermann Ebbinghaus

(c) B.F. Skinner

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

3. The first level of incoming information for memory is:

(a) Environment

(b) Perception

(c) Meaning

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

4. What does the word ‘loci’ mean?

(a) Situation

(b) Places

(c) Home

(d) None of these

Ans. (b)

5. Frederick Bartlett laid emphasis on:

(a) Memory of stories and meaningful passages

(b) Memory of world knowledge

(c) Organisation of past experiences

(d) All of the above

Ans. (b)

6. Who among the following psychologists proposed that there are three kinds of long- term memory namely episodic, semantic and

       procedural:

(a) Tulving

(b) Ebbinghaus

(c) Bartlett

(d) Munn

Ans. (d)

7. ………… is an illness caused by long-term abuse of alcohol often, involving profound retrograde amnesia:

(a) Alzheimer’s Disease

(b) Korsakoff’s syndrome

(c) Down’s syndrome

(d) Amnesia

Ans. (b)

8. Context-Dependent memory refers to the fact that:

(a) Information entered into memory in one context or setting is easier to recall in that context than in others

(b) Information entered into memory in one context is not easy to recall in that context

(c) Information entered into memory in one context can be recalled in any context

(d) Information cannot be recalled in any context without the help of a cue

Ans. (a)

9. The term chunk refers to:

(a) The items containing several reparate bits of information

(b) The memory procedure

(c) Neural network

(d) Large mass

Ans. (a)

10. No memories are reported pertaining to early childhood particularly during the first 4 to 5 years. This is called:

(a) Neonate amnesia

(b) Childhood amnesia

(c) Infancy amnesia

(d) Amnesia of the newborn

Ans. (b)

11. Senile dementia is characterized by deficits in:

(a) Memory and abstract thought

(b) Attention

(c) Judgement

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

12. Who among the following proposed that semantic memory might be organized as an interconnected network?

(a) Collins and Hilgard

(b) Collins and Quillian

(c) Tulving

(d) Brown and McNeill

Ans. (b)

13. The models of memory that describe parallel processing of information by numerous neural modules in the brain are called:

(a) Parallel Network Models

(b) Memory Network Models

(c) Neural Network Models

(d) Tha Atkinson and Shiffrin Model

Ans. (c)

14. A memory system that retains representations of sensory input for brief periods of time is known as:

(a) Primary Memory

(b) Sensory Memory

(c) Organic Memory

(d) Episodic Memory

Ans. (b)

15. The internal representations of the way an individual’s spatial environment is arranged in memory is called:

(a) Memory maps

(b) Cognitive maps

(c) Cognition

(d) Mapping

. Ans. (b)

16. Riding a bicycle, typing, writing are simple examples of :

(a) Semantic Memory

(b) Procedural Memory

(c) Episodic Memory

(d) Symbolic comparison

Ans. (b)

17. Who among the following developed standardised verbal units known as consonant- vowel-constant (CVC) nonsense syllables?

(a) Frederick Barlett

(b) Herman Ebbinghaus

(c) William James

(d) Tulving

Ans. (b)

18. Duration of short-term memory is:

(a) 2 seconds

(b) 20 seconds

(c) 1/2 second

(d) 30 seconds

Ans. (b)

19. According to which of the following theory, we forget the thing, we do not want to remember by pressing them in our unconscious

      mind?

(a) The theory of interference

(b) The repression theory

(c) The trace decay theory

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

20. Which of the following amnesia is an example of psychological amnesia?

(a) Dream amnesia

(b) Defensive or protective amnesia

(c) Childhood amnesia

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

21. PQRST a technique developed by Thomas and Robinson to help students in studying their textbooks refers to:

(a) Preview

(b) Question

(c) Read

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

22. An important method devised by the psychologists for measuring one’s retention power is known as:

(a) Reconstruction method

(b) Saving method

(c) Serial recall method

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

23. Which of the following is an important characteristics of episodic memory?

(a) Holds all kind of knowledge

(b) The emotional nature of events

(c) Used to acquire different kinds of skills

(d) None of the above

Ans. ()

24. In psychology, which of the following mental processes provides the basis for all cognitive processes?

(a) Thinking

(b) Learning

(c) Memory

(d) Motivation

Ans. (b)

25. Which of the following kind of remembering is a common experience, but is a complex and a mysterious process?

(a) Recall

(b) Recognition

(c) Redintegrative memory

(d) Relearning

Ans. (c)