MCQ Bank
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
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