MCQ Bank
Meaning of memory to a 9th class student is:
- A) Remembering birthdays of friends
- B) Childhood memories
- C) Remembering science formulas
- D) Finding keys
Ratcliff and McKoon (1981) conducted an experiment on the phenomenon of:
- A) Priming
- B) Piping
- C) Pyramiding
- D) Processing
Mayer and Schvaneveldt performed classic demonstration of _______________.
- A) Dichotic listening tasks
- B) Partial-report-paradigm
- C) Support paradigm
- D) Associative Priming
Which of following type of memory means we remember analog representations of things?
- A) Sensory memory
- B) Working memory
- C) Episodic memory
- D) Semantic memory
Which of the following statement is TRUE about long term memory?
- A) Memory that lasts more than 5 seconds is long term memory
- B) We can recall everything that has entered our long term memory
- C) All decision making is done in long term memory
- D) Memory that lasts more than 20 seconds is long term memory
The span of immediate memory was identified in 1956 to be 7 (plus or minus 2) by whom?
- A) Cherry
- B) Bartlett
- C) Baddeley
- D) Miller
The amount of activation reaching the proposition is __________ related to the number of links leading from it.
- A) Linearly
- B) Directly
- C) Not
- D) Inversely
Chunking is a way of increasing the __________ of working memory.
- A) Duration
- B) Capacity
- C) Width
- D) Length
Which of the following theory presents that forgetting is when another task steps in memory?
- A) Decay Theory
- B) Forgetting Theory
- C) Interference Theory
- D) Alan Baddeley’s Theory
What refers to activating parts of particular representations or associations in memory just before carrying out an action or task?
- A) Relationship
- B) Linkage
- C) Priming
- D) Connection
After 20 seconds what we can remember is:
- A) Short term memory
- B) Sensory memory
- C) Long term memory
- D) Working memory
According to Alan Baddeley’s model of working memory, visual memories pertain to which of the following?
- A) Visio-spatial sketch pad
- B) Imagery
- C) Executive control system
- D) Phonological loop system
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