Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as:

Related Mcqs:

1. Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as:

   A. adaptation level
   B. context
   C. intuition
   D. frames of reference

2. The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?

   A. concentrated attending
   B. stimulus focusing
   C. selective attention
   D. structured perceiving

3. Weber’s law states that the just Noticeable Difference between stimuli is a (n):

   A. Unknown
   B. Threshold
   C. Puzzle
   D. Constant

4. Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?

   A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
   B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
   C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
   D. Both (a) and (c)

5. Concerns with meeting standards of excellence and accomplishing difficult tasks refer to need for___________?

   A. Affiliation
   B. Achievement
   C. Power
   D. Apperception

6. Hammad sets extremely high standards for both himself and others. He tends to be rigid and inflexible and rarely allows himself to enjoy life. Freud would probably conclude that Hammad is dominated by:

   A. his id
   B. penis envy
   C. his neuroticism
   D. his superego

7. The need to master difficult challenges, outperform others, and meet high standards of excellence motive:

   A. a competence motive
   B. a drive motive
   C. an achievement motive
   D. an intellect motive

8. By the perceptual organization of stimuli the person’s span of attention is ____________?

   A. Increased
   B. Decreased
   C. Divided
   D. Unaffected
   E. None of these

9. Watson argued that all behavior is composed of reflexive responses to stimuli, but Skinner later argued that behavior is determined ____________?

   A. patterns
   B. consequences of responses
   C. predictability of responses
   D. strength of responses

10. ____________ is the cerebral ‘alarm clock’ which selectively filters incoming stimuli?

    A. medulla
    B. cerebellum
    C. limbic system
    D. reticular formation