The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied and incorporated into memory is called ________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

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

2. The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?

   A. shaping
   B. acquisition
   C. discrimination
   D. generalization

3. The idea that the amount of change in a stimulus necessary to produce a JND is a constant proportion of the stimulus intensity is called:

   A. James law
   B. The all-or-none principle
   C. The law of diminishing returns
   D. Weber’s law

4. In which form of conditioning is the conditioned stimulus (CS) presented after the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) _______________?

   A. higher order conditioning
   B. forward conditioning
   C. backward conditioning
   D. second order conditioning

5. When Pavlov repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response failed to occur. This is known as __________________?

   A. condition failure
   B. recovery
   C. extinction
   D. habituation

6. Rahila found that a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus only if it is contingent and:

   A. Inclusive
   B. Dominant
   C. Informative
   D. Appropriate

7. The presentation of an aversive stimulus of the removal of a positive stimulus are both examples of:

   A. negative reinforcement
   B. punishment
   C. positive reinforcement
   D. secondary reinforcement

8. A psychologist studied a gunshot wound victim and found out that brain region destroyed is most important for memory functions. The research is _____________?

   A. case study
   B. survey
   C. correlational
   D. experimental
   E. None of these

9. A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called _________________ memory?

   A. iconic
   B. implicit
   C. echoic
   D. flashbulb

10. The best studied perceptual constancies include ________________?

    A. brightness, focus, angle
    B. shape, location, size
    C. color, texture, content
    D. size, age, weight