Following are true or false:

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following statements about Swinney’s 1979 experiment is FALSE?

   A. Participants were presented with spoken passage like these; (a) Mary needed to buy some presents, so she went to the bank;(b) Mary found the river cold ,so she swam to the bank
   B. immediately after the presentation of the ambiguous word, Swinney presented a single letter string on a screen participants had to decide whether the letter string was a world or not(a lexical decision)
   C. When the string was a word, it could either be related to the intended sense of the ambiguous word(e.g) money’) related to the other sense (e.g mud), or unrelated to other
   D. It turned out that there was differential advantage (priming) for different sense of the word when there was a delay before the second stimulus depending on the meaning so context appeared to affect initial sense selection

2. Gibbs’ work revealed many things, but three of the following are false in relation to his finding Which is the CORRECT answer?

   A. The finding of Gibbs show that the applicability of the standard comprehension model is widespread
   B. Comprehending sentences in stories is the same as comprehending actual interactions in dialogue
   C. Work on indirect speech-act comprehension reinforces the view that literal interpretation is always necessary
   D. Similar findings have been obtained for metaphor comprehension as have been obtained with speech-act comprehension

3. Which of the following statements about Pavlov’s dogs is FALSE?

   A. Pavlov’s standard procedure, involved the following: a dog was given access to food, and each presentation was accompanied (usually slightly preceded by the occurrence of a neutral event, such as a flashing light
   B. After several training trials (pairings of light and food), the dog would salivate at the flash of light, before any food had appeared
   C. Salivation at the presentation of food is called a conditioned response
   D. The event that evokes the conditioned response is referred to as a conditioned stimulus

4. One of the following statements is FALSE-but which one?

   A. A system of channels can only signal preferred orientation of any single channel
   B. Perceptual information is likely to be merged via a process that combines the activities across all channels
   C. As part of the process of synthesis, channel activities are likely to be weighted according to the level of activity in each channel
   D. The merging process may find the ‘center of gravity’ of the distribution of activity

5. Which, if any, of the following is FALSE?

   A. Livingstone and Hubel described actively in a third type of column in V2, where the cells receive converging input from the magno and parvo systems
   B. Livingstone and Hubel suggested that some columns in V2 are used for spatial pattern analysis.
   C. Quantitative studies have found that perceived depth is reduced in red/green images of the same brightness
   D. All are correct

6. Which of the following statements about the cortex is FALSE?

   A. Within the cortex, the general flow of local information runs vertically
   B. Within the cortex, information flows to cells in other layers above and below the activated cells
   C. Hubel and Wiesel (19613) discovered that all cortical neurons respond best the spots of light
   D. All of the above

7. Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
   1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
   2. Theories are statements of what rather than why
   3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations
   4. All of the above

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 4

8. Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

   A. Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as clinical in the style, while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’
   B. Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge
   C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence
   D. Profiling common characteristics of known offenders involves gathering data about the crime for multiple sources

9. Maslow’s models fits the person-as- machine metaphor well. Which of the following is false concerning the model?

   A. A person will respond to whatever satisfies the lowest level unfulfilled need
   B. Workers in the same department are assumed to be the same needs level
   C. The behavior of the individual is unconscious and automatic
   D. The employer needs to know at what need level a worker is operating

10. Which of the following statements regarding the psychological effects of unemployment is FALSE?

    A. The unemployed have poorer mental health than comparable groups of employed people
    B. The unemployed have poorer physical health than comparable groups of employed people
    C. The psychological effects of unemployment do not usually affect anyone apart from the unemployed person
    D. none of the above – all are correct