Weber’s law refers to ________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Giving meaning to sensation refers to ________________?

   A. perception
   B. motivation
   C. cognition
   D. None of these

2. Distinguishing objects from what surrounds them refers to ________________?

   A. closure
   B. figure and ground
   C. proximity
   D. distance

3. The Law “similar things give rise to similar things” is called law of:

   A. Similarity
   B. Dissimilarity
   C. Recurrence
   D. None of these

4. The law of effect first formulated by ________________?

   A. John Garcia
   B. B. F. Skinner
   C. Edward Thorndike
   D. Edward Tolman

5. Echoic memory refers to ____________________?

   A. visual perception
   B. eidetic perception
   C. verbal codes
   D. auditory perception

6. Readiness refers to:

   A. Mentally preparation for learning
   B. Increase in the pace of learning process
   C. Removal of hindrances in the learning process
   D. Both a & b

7. Sensory adaptation refers to:

   A. Diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus
   B. Adjustment in the opening of the eye
   C. The process by which stimulus energies are changed into neural impulses
   D. Changes in the shape of the lens as it focuses on objects

8. According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

   A. Competencies
   B. Goals and values
   C. Affects
   D. Encodings

9. The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to:

   A. underestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
   B. judge the likelihood of an event in terms of how readily instances of its occurrence are remembered
   C. cling to our initial conceptions, even though they have been discredited
   D. judge the likelihood of category membership by how closely an object or event resembles a particular prototype

10. _______is the term that refers to a decreased volume of blood circulation, and it leads to the behavioural response of_______.

    A. Cellular dehydration; thirst
    B. Hypovolemia; drinking
    C. Cellular dehydration; drinking
    D. Hypovolemia; eating