Which of the following statements is NOT true in relation to measure of dispersion?

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1. Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
   1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
   2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
   3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
   4:None of the above

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

2. By the early years of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud had begun to write about psychoanalysis, which he described as ‘a theory of the mind or personality, a method of investigation of unconscious process and a method of treatment’. Identify the true statement from those given below, in relation to his concept to his psychoanalytic theories:

   A. The concept of unconscious mental processes is the idea that unconscious motivations and needs have a role in determining or behaviour
   B. The concept of unconscious mental processes emphasizes the rational aspects of human behaviour
   C. A psychogenetic model of development shows how the mind is organized
   D. A topographic model of the psyche shows how personality develops

3. Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?

   A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
   B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
   C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
   D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities

4. Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
   1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
   2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
   3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
   4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.

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

5. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

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

6. Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
   1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
   2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
   3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
   4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1

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

7. Which of the following statements is (are) true?

   A. Classical conditioning regulates reflexive, involuntary responses exclusively
   B. Operant conditioning regulates voluntary responses exclusively
   C. The distinction between the two types of conditioning is not absolute, with both types jointly and interactively governing some aspects of behavior
   D. Both a and b

8. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

   A. The rods and cones in the retina function in bright and dim light respectively
   B. The cones are of three types, which are selective to different ranges of light wavelength
   C. The information from the cones is re-organized in the retina to give-green, red and blue-yellow opponent channels
   D. There is also group of large retinal cells alongside the smaller color-opponent cells that respond to the difference between the luminances in their center and surrounding regions

9. Which of the following statements are true? 1. On a vernier acuity task, humans can discern the direction of very tiny offsets, but performance deteriorates with practice. 2. Different types of visual search have different behavioural characteristics and depend on different brain regions. 3. Walsh et.al. (1998) suggest that the right parietal lobe may be involved in setting up new templates in the conjunctions of, say, colour and form. 4 All of the above.

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

10. Which of the following statements is NOT true in terms of the repairing damaged brains?

    A. Adult neurons can sometimes from new connections
    B. If one input to a target area is lost, the remaining inputs sometimes send out new branches from their axons to colonize the vacant space
    C. Although transplanted neurons taken from a brain at the right stage of development will grow in an adult host brain, they will not restore normal function
    D. Transplants of dopamine cell bodies alleviate some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in human patients