2012 psycho Flashcards
How to attain more knowledge in STM and add it to the LTM in order to prevent decay?
a. Do your first revision as soon as possible
b. Review 1 week before the exam
a. Do your first revision as soon as possible
Sara took diet pills for six months and her weight changed from 70 to 65 but after a year, her weight was 75. How this can be explained?
a. Chronic use of diet pills lowers the metabolic rate
b. Diet pills increase fat burn in tissues
c. Diet pills lower the body set point temporarily
d. Diet pills increase appetite
c. Diet pills lower the body set point temporarily
If 0.2 mg of salt is added to 100 ml of glass of water, Nadia has 50% chance to detect change in water. What is the perceptual threshold?
a. Difference Threshold
b. Absolute Threshold
c. Just Noticeable Difference
b. Absolute Threshold
Ahmad Wears a Watch and he felt it on his skin. After some minutes, he consciously didn’t feel his watch. What does Specific Sensation concept show?
a. Adaptation
b. Transduction
a. Adaptation
What kind of memory decays its memory trace?
a. Long-term Memory
b. Short-term Memory
b. Short-term Memory
Transformation of sensory information to neurological impulses summarizes which of the following stages of memory by melton?
a. Storage
b. Retrieval
c. Encoding
c. Encoding
Which of the following schedules of reinforcement in operant conditioning has the highest rate of response?
a. Variable Ratio
b. Fixed Interval
c. Fixed Ratio
a. Variable Ratio
What is it called when you see motion that is not actually a real motion?
Stroboscopic motion
a man who is distressed of medical establishment after he was admitted to one and saw the high-quality medical care he changed his mind. According to cognitive theory, what has occurred in order for the man to change his mind?
a. accommodation
b. assimilation
a. accommodation
What is the percent of genetic effects on Personality?
a. 0%
b. 50%
c. 75%
b. 50%
Skinner invented a method of simple learning and it’s used nowadays. What is it called?
a. Operant Conditioning
b. Classical Conditoining
a. Operant Conditioning
When you identify a cake on a plate in front of you, What kind of perceptual process is happening here?
a. Continuity
b. Proximity
c. Closure
d. Figure-Ground
d. Figure-Ground
What is the formula of IQ?
IQ= MA/CA X 100
IQ = Mental age ÷ Physical age × 100
A baby born with cataract up till 7 years so he suffered from visual impairment. Which period of the child’s life did this happen?
a. Critical
b. Sensitive
c. Maturation
d. Hierarchal Time
A or b (not sure)
What Structural Method gave rise to the structural theory of intelligence?
a. Analysis of Variance
b. Chi-Square analysis
c. Discriminante Factor
d. Factor Analysis
d. Factor Analysis
