MCQ Bank
Which of the following is NOT from Categorization rules?
- A) Concept rule
- B) Prototype rule
- C) Nearest neighbor rule
- D) Average distance rule
Our memory is inferenced by our _________ clues.
- A) Speech
- B) Contextual
- C) Olfactory
- D) Pictorial
Pattern recognition is a part of:
- A) Procedural recognition
- B) Working recognition
- C) Category recognition
- D) Episodic recognition
What is a mental representation of a category?
- A) Procedure
- B) Concept
- C) Code
- D) Episode
Which of the following belongs to super-ordinate level of categories?
- A) Bed
- B) Table
- C) Chair
- D) Furniture
Screw-driver belongs to which level of categories?
- A) Superordinate level
- B) Sequential level
- C) Basic level
- D) Subordinate level
According to propositional network theory, in which form do we store information regarding abstract ideas in our memory?
- A) Images
- B) Waves
- C) Sentences
- D) Dreams
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
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) Keppel & Underwood
- C) Born & Allen
- D) Born & Underwood
Which of the following has a task to achieve activation through controlled retrieval?
- A) Phonological loop
- B) Coding
- C) Short term memory
- D) Central executive
Which of the following is NOT a recognized theory of forgetting?
- A) Cue-dependent forgetting theory
- B) Trace decay theory
- C) Interference theory
- D) Hierarchy theory
All our assessments about the long term memory are based on which of the following?
- A) Long term memory itself
- B) Short term memory
- C) Performance
- D) Sensory memory
Anderson (1974) performed an experiment on:
- A) The Fan Effect
- B) The Performance Effect
- C) The Ceiling Effect
- D) The Light Effect
In which of the following model the prominent role was given to Central Executive?
- A) Born’s model
- B) Engle’s model
- C) Keppel’s model
- D) Clifford’s model
Which of the following theory presents that forgetting is due to passage of time?
- A) Alan Baddeley’s Theory
- B) Interference Theory
- C) Forgetting Theory
- D) Decay Theory
1, 2 buckle my shoe, 3, 4 shut the door and 5, 6 pick-up sticks is an example of:
- A) Method of Loci
- B) Elaborate
- C) Chunking
- D) PQ4R Method
All of the following are types of long term memory EXCEPT:
- A) Episodic memory
- B) Semantic memory
- C) Working memory
- D) Procedural memory
How many chunks master players of chess have stored in their Long Term Memory?
- A) 500 to 700
- B) 100 to 10000
- C) 20,000 to 20,000
- D) 10,000 to 100,000
Which of the following is same as short term memory?
- A) Semantic Memory
- B) Episodic Memory
- C) Working Memory
- D) Procedural Memory
A relatively permanent storage of information is known as:
- A) Long term memory
- B) Working memory
- C) Sensory memory
- D) Short term memory