Psychology MCQ Questions Answers

1. The father of the u.s. constitution, james madison, referred to congress as ________________.

2. Dr. cattolicos work has resulted in _______.

3. Repressed memories of sexual abuse are _________.

4. Quizzes in ivylearn can have a due date, ________, and one or more attempts.

5. The sound pressure level increases _______ as the decibel level increases from 40 to 80 dbs

6. Memories for well-learned skills such as how to ride a bicycle are typically ________ memories.

7. Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________.

8. Meaningful _____ helps in remembering information from novel, abstract paragraphs.

9. Long-term potentiation is a result of _____.

10. Logans (1988) instance-based view of automaticity is that as a task becomes automatic, _______.

11. Kosslyn's island experiment used the _____ procedure.

12. Knowing how to serve a badminton birdie is an example of a(n) ________ memory.

13. Ego analysts are particularly concerned with the influence of _______.

14. Even after we learn the material, _______________ increases retention.

15. Damage to v1 produces ____ and damage to a1 produces ____.

16. Gender is to ____ as sex is to ____.

17. Gains in __________ permit the transition to rule-oriented games.

18. Formal operational thought is most necessary for the development of ________ morality.

19. Foods that are high in __________ are particularly important for preschool children.

20. Firstborn and only children are alike in that both are _____ than later-born children.

21. Fewer than ____ of teens are out of school, unemployed, and looking for full-time work.

22. Family stress predicts earlier than normal puberty in _____.

23. Cigarette smoking is implicated in ______ percent of all low-birthweight births worldwide.

24. Choose all that apply: according to social learning theory, ________________________

25. Children with williams syndrome are characterized by ____.

26. Damage to the temporal lobe makes the _____ more difficult.

27. Damage to the midbrain would most likely result in ____.

28. Damage to the fovea would probably have the least effect on visual sensitivity to ________ stimuli.

29. Cortical magnification is the _______ of _______devoted to foveal vision.

30. Children of __________ parents tend to be more popular that those whose parents use other styles.

31. Habituation occurs in the _____; sensory adaptation occurs in the _____.

32. _____ can be generated based on saliency principles and used to predict early fixations in a scene.

33. Cattell and horn called the ability to solve new and unusual problems __________ intelligence.

34. Words that easily evoke imagery, like ball, are ________ relative to words like hope.

35. By the age of ____ months, babies can move themselves in different directions.

36. Work with brain-injured patients reveals that ____ memory does not depend on conscious memory.

37. While chuck is aware of most stimuli around him, a number of _____ go unnoticed.

38. The phrase accept in the word unacceptable is an example of _________.

39. Around _____ years of age, children learn to change their speech style to suit the situation.

40. The two primary reasons why short-term memories fade are __________ and __________.

41. The most neglected aspect of problem-solving is____________

42. Without any conscious effort, your ________ prepares you to fight or flee from dangerous situations

43. When a person scans a visual scene, he/she usually makes about _____ fixation(s) per second.

44. The________ is a thin inner surface behind the eyeball and it contains sensory receptors.

45. Telegraphic speech is most closely associated with the ________ stage of language development.

46. Well-defined is to ill-defined as _______ is to_______.

47. The word unhappiness has ____ bound morphemes and ____ free morphemes.

48. The term top-down processing can be interchanged with the term ________ processing.

49. In a conjunctive search, reaction time typically __________ as the number of distractors increase.

50. Immediate memory capacity is _____ with susceptibility to the belief-bias effect.

51. If a person has a digit span of two, this indicates that he has _____ memory.

52. Humans rely primarily on the senses of ________ to gather information about their environment.

53. Hearing begins when sound waves stimulate the ________.

54. George miller found that the average person is able to keep about _______ digits in mind at a time.

55. Forgetting names and places appears in stage _____ of alzheimer's disease.

56. Between the seventh and the ninth days after fertilization, __________ occurs.

57. Behaviorists emphasize the crucial role of _____ on behavior.

58. The work of alan newell and herbert simon introduced ________ into the study of human behaviors.

59. Before the age of 3, most children are unable to demonstrate __________ speech.

60. The set of things or events that catch ones attention is called __________.

61. The phomemic restoration effect is often cited as evidence for the role of ______ in_________.

62. At the onset of puberty, ____.

63. Memory researcher ____ has conducted many studies showing how people construct false memories.

64. At least _____ billion children were born between the years 1950 and 2015.

65. Gustation involves ________ taste buds, all located on the ________.

66. A masking stimulus is primarily used to _____.

67. At age 3, elliot is able to break down __________ into __________.

68. As compared to piaget, vygotsky placed _____ emphasis on the _____ bases of cognitive development.

69. As a typical young teen, maurice would be best at detecting ____ flaws in arguments.

70. For burn victims, a computer-generated virtual reality uses ________ to help control pain.

71. Compared with those who are unhappy, happy people are ________ decisive and ________ cooperative.

72. Cheesman and merikles (1984) investigations on subliminal priming suggested that _______.

73. An infant's anger is usually triggered by _____.

74. An example of ___________ would be if eric calls his new girlfriend by his old girlfriend's name.

75. An individual's socioeconomic status includes, among other things, his or her _____.

76. Among theories of forgetting, decay theory is also known as ____.

77. Adhd occurs _____ more frequently in boys than in girls.

78. According to wegner and his colleagues, the ironic effects of thought suppression _______.

79. According to kbler-ross, sadness based on events that have already occurred is called __________.

80. According to kohlberg's theory, the 4th stage of development is __________.

81. According to john horn, the ability to reason abstractly is _____ intelligence.

82. According to bowlby, the __________ serves as a guide for all future close relationships.

83. According to a growing body of research, infant-directed speech _____________ across cultures.

84. About __________ of parents who were abused when they were young go on to abuse their own children.

85. A cause can have many final manifestations. this is referred to as _____.

86. According to the ________ theory of pain, acupuncture should successfully alleviate pain.

87. _____ reflects an individuals personal investment in identity.

88. _____ reflect expectations for how males and females should think, act, and feel.

89. According to psychologists, memory refers to the persistence of _____ over time.

90. According to _____, the act of smiling will probably make you feel happier.

91. _____ is the belief that i can; helplessness is the belief that i cannot.

92. Accessing stored memories and bringing them into short-term memory is called _____.

93. A set of expectations about objects and situations is called a(n) ____.

94. The number of reported maltreatment cases are _____ the number of substantiated maltreatment cases.

95. The majority of rape victims are __________, and the abusers are __________.

96. A teratogen is any agent or condition that increases the risk for _____.

97. Maternal mortality has ______ since 1980, but is highest for _______.

98. The sentence "the pencil sang a lovely tune" is ______, but __________.

99. A person with damage to the ________ would be clumsy and uncoordinated.

100. Myelination is important because ______________________________.