MCQ Bank
Meaning of memory to an old man is _____________.
- A) Operating computer
- B) Finding keys
- C) Shoe lacing
- D) Fishing skills
Long-term memory for autobiographical events is called what?
- A) Semantic memory
- B) Procedural memory
- C) Episodic memory
- D) Echoic memory
How many chunks master players of chess have stored in their Long Term Memory?
- A) 100 to 10000
- B) 10,000 to 100,000
- C) 20,000 to 20,000
- D) 500 to 700
In which of the following model the prominent role was given to Central Executive?
- A) Engle’s model
- B) Keppel’s model
- C) Born’s model
- D) Clifford’s model
Alan Baddeley’s model of working memory includes all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Phonological loop
- B) Central executive
- C) Visuo-spatial sketch pad
- D) Spatial executive
Which of the following interference highlights the findings that earlier occurring information interferes with later information?
- A) Retroactive interference
- B) Behavioral interference
- C) Decay interference
- D) Proactive interference
John Miller was a great Cognitive Psychologist who proposed:
- A) Magic number 7
- B) Magic number 11
- C) Magic number 5
- D) Magic number 17
Which of the following theory presents that forgetting is due to passage of time?
- A) Forgetting Theory
- B) Interference Theory
- C) Alan Baddeley’s Theory
- D) Decay Theory
A chunk is a/an_________ unit.
- A) Memory
- B) Thinking
- C) Language
- D) Emotional
Which of the following is the characteristic of amnesia?
- A) Loss of memory for names and places
- B) Loss of memory for people's faces
- C) Loss of most of the long-term memory, with a fairly intact short-term memory
- D) Loss of most of the information held in both short-term and long-term memory stores
Which of the following has a task to achieve activation through controlled retrieval?
- A) Central executive
- B) Coding
- C) Short term memory
- D) Phonological loop
A relatively permanent storage of information is known as:
- A) Short term memory
- B) Sensory memory
- C) Working memory
- D) Long term memory
All our assessments about the long term memory are based on which of the following?
- A) Sensory memory
- B) Long term memory itself
- C) Short term memory
- D) Performance
Activation model of working memory was presented by:
- A) John Miller
- B) John Nash
- C) John Anderson
- D) John Atkinson
Which of the following is a computer chess program?
- A) MAPI
- B) MAPP
- C) MAIP
- D) MIPP
All of the following are types of long term memory EXCEPT:
- A) Procedural memory
- B) Semantic memory
- C) Working memory
- D) Episodic memory
Which form of long-term memory contains information about our knowledge of the world, such as the rules and words of our language?
- A) Semantic memory
- B) Episodic memory
- C) Cortical memory
- D) Explicit memory
1, 2 buckle my shoe, 3, 4 shut the door and 5, 6 pick-up sticks is an example of:
- A) PQ4R Method
- B) Method of Loci
- C) Elaborate
- D) Chunking
What is the process of transferring information from short term memory to long term memory through codes?
- A) Rehearsal
- B) Recognition
- C) Priming
- D) Encoding
Which of the following memory lasts for more than 20 seconds?
- A) Working memory
- B) Long term memory
- C) Central executive
- D) Short term memory