If a 100-Hz tone had to be increased to 110 Hz for a subject to just notice the difference, you would predict that a 1000-Hz tone would have to be increased to:

Related Mcqs:

1. After repeatedly pairing a tone with meat powder, Pavlov found that a dog will salivate when the tone is presented. Salivation to the tone is a (n):

   A. unconditioned stimulus
   B. unconditioned response
   C. conditioned stimulus
   D. conditioned response

2. In order to obtain a reward, a monkey learns to press a lever when a bell tone is on but not when a Buzzer tone is on. What kind of training is this?

   A. extinction
   B. generalization
   C. spontaneous recovery
   D. discrimination

3. Which theory would predict that the American flag have a green, black, and yellow afterimage?

   A. subtractive color mixing
   B. opponent process theory
   C. additive color mixing
   D. trichromatic theory

4. A tone-deaf person would probably not be able to tell two musical notes apart unless they were very different. We could say that this person has a relatively large:

   A. just noticeable difference
   B. relative threshold
   C. absolute threshold
   D. detection threshold

5. Waqas looked directly into a very bright light and damaged his retina. The ophthalmologist has told him that he has sustained massive damage to his rods but for the most part his cones have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Waqas’ vision is that he will now have:

   A. more accurate depth perception
   B. poor vision in bright illumination
   C. poor vision in low illumination
   D. poor peripheral vision

6. Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have:

   A. Poor vision in bright light
   B. No color vision
   C. Poor vision in low illumination
   D. More accurate depth perception

7. Study of gender difference is the subject matter of _________?

   A. Industrial and Organizational Psychology
   B. Social Psychology
   C. Developmental Psychology
   D. Clinical Psychology

8. Which theory of social change would predict that all societies eventually experience the same kinds of social changes?

   A. functionalist
   B. conflict
   C. unilateral evolutionary
   D. evolutionary

9. 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

10. Which dimension of personality can predict individual preferences for study areas, number of study breaks and performance on long vigilance tasks?

    A. External-internal
    B. Experimenting-conservative
    C. Neuroticism-stability
    D. Extraversion-introversion