A. with the least digits/letters
B. at the beginning of a long list
C. in the middle of a long list
D. at the end of a long list
Related Mcqs:
- You have practice for weeks to perform in the fall play at school. In practice on occasion you have messed up your lines or forgotten a movement, however on the evening of the performance you are flawless. Which of the following phenomena did you likely experience?
A. social loafing
B. self- serving bias
C. social facilitation
D. deindividuation - The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?
A. next-in-line
B. misinformation
C. serial position
D. spacing - In contrast to a dissimilar-items list, a similar-items list is __________________?
A. more difficult to learn
B. easier to learn
C. learned with equivalent ease
D. more susceptible to the serial position effect - Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?
A. drawing an illusory correlation
B. false consensus effect
C. the fundamental attribution error
D. a defensive attribution - You parked your car in a large car park Monday morning. When you return to the car park Monday night, you have forgotten Fiesta in a large car park filled with green Volkswagens and red Fiestas, which type of visual search would you need to use?
A. Parallel search
B. Serial search
C. Conjunction search
D. Serial and conjunction - In general, people attach concepts and attributes to items and events. This knowledge is used to categorize and understand new stimuli and is best known as a person’s ___________________?
A. algorithm
B. heuristic
C. schema
D. mental set - We are more likely to remember the words “typewriter, cigarette and fire” than the words “void, process and inherent” because the first three words are more likely to be _________________ encoded?
A. automatically
B. visually
C. proactively
D. implicitly - Endorphin agonists are likely to ___________ one’s immediate pain and endorphin antagonists are likely to ___________ one’s immediate pain:
A. increase; increase
B. decrease; increase
C. decrease; decrease
D. eliminate; eliminate - The theory of forgetting that stresses the similarity of items in memory is _________________?
A. decay
B. interference
C. consolidation
D. psychodynamic - In answering multiple-choice test items smart test-takers are best advised to:
A. choose “C” when they don’t know the answer
B. recall the correct answer to each before reading the alternative answer
C. carefully imagine how each of the alternative answer might be correct
D. None
