MCQ Bank
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
Which branch of psychology is a merger point of different types of knowledge e.g. philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, psychology, social work etc.
- A) Cognitive psychology
- B) Clinical psychology
- C) Positive psychology
- D) Educational psychology
Who conducted an experiment on categorization rules by using faces?
- A) Stephen Read
- B) Penfield
- C) Kessler
- D) Knell
Concept is a mental representation of _______________.
- A) Geon
- B) Category
- C) Idea
- D) Chunking
What is on the top of the hierarchy of Categories?
- A) Organization Category
- B) Subordinate Category
- C) Super ordinate Category
- D) Basic Level Category
What is the position of Basic Level Category in the hierarchy of Categories?
- A) Fourth
- B) Middle
- C) Last
- D) Top
A group sharing same essential features may refer to which one of the following?
- A) Category
- B) Class
- C) Group
- D) Race
Who pointed out that Schema is an active organization of past experiences in which the mind abstracts a general cognitive structure to represent many particular instances of those experiences?
- A) Meyer
- B) Marlatt
- C) Bartlett
- D) Brewer
Artificial intelligence focused on schemas because:
- A) Schemas are maps
- B) Schemas make knowledge that helps the computer in information
- C) Schemas are not designed to facilitate making inferences about the concepts
- D) Schema help in conversation