MCQ Bank
All children in day care center would like to play with cars, therefore all children like cars. This is an example of:
- A) Inductive reasoning
- B) Deductive reasoning
- C) Discovery reasoning
- D) Expository reasoning
Ali studies the architect, textiles and paintings of Pakistani culture. He is probably studying ___________ culture.
- A) Non-material
- B) Solid
- C) Material
- D) Physical
Amir believes that as he is a boy he should express aggressiveness whenever and wherever it is needed. This reflects Amir’s:
- A) Gender Constancy
- B) Gender Bias
- C) Gender Schema
- D) Gender Role Identity
Bandura believed that human functioning is a product of the mutual interaction of environment, person, and __________.
- A) Heredity
- B) Behavior
- C) Learning
- D) Cognition
Which of the following process is involved when we focus on certain stimuli from the environment and ignore the other ones?
- A) Attention
- B) Learning
- C) Sensation
- D) Memory
Ahmad told his friend about what he had for breakfast, the movie he saw last night and what he did on vacation last summer. This is an example of _____________.
- A) Procedural memory
- B) Semantic memory
- C) Episodic memory
- D) Conditional memory
A student from low socioeconomic status believes that he is not able to perform well in school because he already has failed in last exams. This is known as:
- A) Learned helplessness
- B) Peer pressure
- C) Lack of confidence
- D) Poor Health Care
______________memory refers to long term memory of events that were personally experienced.
- A) Emotional
- B) Episodic
- C) Procedural
- D) Semantic
Punjabi women prefer Shalwar Kameez over other dresses, while Sindhi women prefer Ajrak frocks in their clothing. This difference belongs to _________ level of culture.
- A) Meso
- B) Micro
- C) Mega
- D) Macro
SES is an abbreviation of what?
- A) Social election status
- B) Socioeconomic status
- C) Secondary economic status
- D) Sex economic status
Which of the following function of memory is involved; when we recall the information, whenever it is required?
- A) Retrieval
- B) Encoding
- C) Rehearsal
- D) Storage
______________ are commonly used in domain-specific problem solving strategy, in which a problem tends to be solved by using step by step procedure.
- A) Algorithms
- B) General principles
- C) Heuristics
- D) Scientific rules
Let’s suppose children are able to speak and read in both Urdu and English languages. This is referred to as:
- A) Dialect
- B) Bilingualism
- C) Commonality
- D) Monolinguals
____________ is the initial processing that transforms incoming stimuli into information so we can make sense of them.
- A) Iconic memory
- B) Sensory memory
- C) Short term memory
- D) Long term memory
At what age metacognitive abilities are begin to develop?
- A) 8 years
- B) 5 years
- C) 7 years
- D) 4 years
Sensation + Meaning = ____________________.
- A) Learning
- B) Memory
- C) Perception
- D) Sensation
_______________ are used in general problem solving strategy; which may give a solution to solve a problem but it is not guaranteed to be an optimal solution.
- A) Scientific rules
- B) Algorithms
- C) General principles
- D) Heuristics
_______________ is defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior due to past experiences.
- A) Learning
- B) Forgetting
- C) Perception
- D) Memory
Mostly jokes represent Pathans as being stupid. Punjabi people enjoy these jokes and consider Pathans to be the same in reality. This may lead to cultural __________ .
- A) Difficulties
- B) Diversity
- C) Conflicts
- D) Convergence
Who proposed social learning theory?
- A) Albert Bandura
- B) Thorndike
- C) Pavlov
- D) Skinner