MCQ Bank
Who is the writer of the book “Thought and Choice in Chess?”
- A) De Groot
- B) Baddeley
- C) Miller
- D) Cherry
Which of the following is regarded as permanent store of information?
- A) Babyhood memory
- B) Short term memory
- C) Childhood memory
- D) Long term memory
Who concluded that when items are similar they interfere with one another but when they are different they are more readily recalled?
- A) Clifford & Berry
- B) Born & Allen
- C) Keppel & Underwood
- D) Born & Underwood
Which of the following is same as short term memory?
- A) Working Memory
- B) Procedural Memory
- C) Semantic Memory
- D) Episodic Memory
Perlmutter and Anderson conducted an unpublished experiment that is cited in the book of:
- A) Educational psychology
- B) Cognitive psychology
- C) Experimental psychology
- D) Clinical psychology
Which of the following is NOT a recognized theory of forgetting?
- A) Interference theory
- B) Hierarchy theory
- C) Trace decay theory
- D) Cue-dependent forgetting theory
Which of the following is NOT a recognised theory of forgetting?
- A) Interference theory
- B) Trace decay theory
- C) Cue-dependent forgetting
- D) Hierarchy theory
Which of the following book was written by De Groot on Chess in 1965?
- A) How to Win Chess
- B) Me and My Chess
- C) Thought and Choice in Chess
- D) Strategies and Choice in Chess
Which of the following statement about chunking is WRONG?
- A) Chunking is a way to increase short term memory’s capacity
- B) For learning words, limit is seven
- C) We can learn up to 21 digits at a time
- D) Capacity to learn sentence is much higher than letters and words
Who illustrated the process of how speed of retrieval varies with practice?
- A) Born
- B) Engle
- C) Keppel
- D) Anderson
The information in the long term memory is stored through the process of:
- A) Chunking
- B) Encoding
- C) Attention
- D) Reshaping
MAPP – a computer chess program is an abbreviation of:
- A) Memory Aided Pattern Perceiver
- B) Memory Aided Pattern Publicity
- C) Memory Aided Pattern Perception
- D) Memory Aided Person Perception
A source node has a fixed capacity for emitting:
- A) Processing
- B) Priming
- C) Association
- D) Activation
Which of the following interference highlights the findings that later occurring information interferes with earlier information?
- A) Proactive interference
- B) Behavioral Interference
- C) Decay interference
- D) Retroactive interference
Who presented a model of working memory?
- A) Atkinson Baddeley
- B) Meyer Baddeley
- C) Marlatt Baddeley
- D) Alan Baddeley
Aleena is suffering from amnesia, which of her memory is likely to be effected?
- A) Short term memory
- B) Episodic memory
- C) Semantic memory
- D) Procedural memory
In which of following type of memory we can remember meaning of things?
- A) Semantic memory
- B) Working memory
- C) Episodic memory
- D) Procedural memory
How many digits can be learnt through chunking?
- A) 23
- B) 20
- C) 21
- D) 25
Which of the following is a part and parcel of activation mechanism of short term working memory?
- A) Attention
- B) Rehearsal
- C) Reshaping
- D) Transient
Anderson (1974) performed an experiment on:
- A) The Light Effect
- B) The Ceiling Effect
- C) The Performance Effect
- D) The Fan Effect