Top 80+ Solved Basic Psychology MCQ Questions Answer

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Q. Cognitive events, often vivid but disconnected that occur during sleep are ____________

a. dreams

b. hypnosis

c. consciousness

d. none of the above

  • a. dreams

Q. Our ability to pay attention to only some aspects of the world around us whilelargely ignoring others is called___________

a. span of attention

b. division of attention

c. distraction of attention

d. selective attention

  • d. selective attention

Q. The feeling that we can almost, but not quite, remember some information wewish to retrieve from memory is _________________

a. long-term memory

b. short-term memory

c. partial amnesia

d. tip-of-the-tongue phenomena

  • d. tip-of-the-tongue phenomena

Q. The finding that the first and the last items in a series are more likely to berecalled than are intervening items is called_____________________

a. serial position effect

b. rote memorization

c. free recall

d. serial recall

  • a. serial position effect

Q. The tendency to think of wing objects only as they have been used in the pastis __________

a. mental set

b. algorithms

c. functional fixedness

d. analogy

  • c. functional fixedness

Q. A theory of omissions suggesting that emotion provoking eventssimultaneously produce subjective reactions and physiological arousal is ________________

a. james lange theory

b. cannon-bard theory

c. activation theory

d. cognitive arousal theory

  • b. cannon-bard theory

Q. Consideration of what is practical and possible in gratifying instinctive needscharacteristic of the ego is called__________________

a. defense mechanism

b. pleasure principle

c. reality principle

d. psychic structure

  • c. reality principle

Q. The process requiring time during which memory trace becomes more resistantto extinction is _________________

a. consolidation

b. organization

c. retention

d. reminiscence

  • a. consolidation

Q. In Maslow’s hierarchy of motives, the most highly evolved motive is ____________

a. ambition

b. fear

c. self-actualization

d. the need to explore

  • c. self-actualization

Q. The ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed imagery of somethingthat has been previously seen is called_________________

a. flashbulb memory

b. mnemonics

c. eidetic memory

d. repression

  • c. eidetic memory

Q. _______________ defined intelligence as the global capacity to think rationally,act purposefully, and deal effectively with the environment.

a. stanford binet

b. david wechsler

c. lewis terman

d. robert woodworth

  • b. david wechsler
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