Attention, Perception, Learning & Memory – Previous Year Questions
77 questions from past UGC NET Psychology papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
- By instructing the parents not to pay attention to Jeevan's show off behaviour at home the psychologist aimed at :
- By instructing the teacher to praise those children whenever anyone helped their classmates the psychologist applied the factor of ;
- Paedocentrism is:
- What is meant by stroboscopic motion?
- What is Thorndike's law of effect?
- When lightning flashes nearby, we wince and start to prepare ourselves for the thunder to follow. This response to impending thunder is known as:
- Which among the following is true about process of extinction of behaviour in classical conditioning?
- What is meant by stroop effect?
- Which of the following behaviours is not a stage of observational learning?
- Which of the following is true about negative reinforcement? A. It strengthens a response B. It works by reducing or removing something undesirable or unpleasant C. Fastening a seatbelt in car to turn off beeping sound…
- Which of the following are true about perceptual constancy ? A. It applies to perception of size and colour only B. Many visual illusions may be explained by the various constancies C. Constancies occur in all sensory m…
- What is meant by bottom-up processing? A. It always distorts our observations B. Sensory analysis that starts at the entry level C. When our experience and expectations guide our perception D. Higher level mental proces…
- Which of the following is true about stimulus generalization ? A. People's emotional reactions to one stimulus generalize to similar stimuli B. With repeated exposure and reinforcement dogs can differentiate between typ…
- Match List I with List II List I List II A. Effortful processing I. Associates new and old information and solves problems B. Spacing effect II. Encoding of space, time and word meanings C. Working memory III. Rememberi…
- Match List I with List II List I List II A. Young-Helmholtz theory I. Colour perception B. Place theory II. High pitches C. Touch sensations III. Rubber-hand illusion D. Gate control theory IV. Pain
- The human retina contains approximately
- The process by which we translate sensory information into a meaningful representation that we process is known as
- Which of these is not one of the Gestalt principle of visual organization?
- A bell was sounded by Pavlov and then two minutes later a plate of meat powder was presented to the dog. We would term this arrangement as ______ conditioning.
- Emotionally arousing stimuli have also found to lead to amnesia, even though no physical damage to brain structure related to memory have occurred. This refers to
- The process of Chunking permits us to
- Psychologists define ______ as a long-lasting change in behaviour induced by experience.
- ______ refers to the capacity of the nervous system to perceive a stimulus presented at an intensity that is below threshold.
- Match List I with List II List I – Theory of attention List II – Researchers A. Early selection I. Deutsch & Deutsch B. Attenuation II. Cherry C. Late selection III. Johnston & Heinz D. Multimode IV. Treisman
- Trace the pathway of visual information processing A. Geniculate nuclei send information to striate cortex. B. Information reaches to extrastriata cortex. C. Retina sends to lateral geniculate nucleus. D. Information re…
- Memory that is thought to contain knowledge, facts, information, ideas that can be recalled or described in words, pictures, or symbols is called:-
- Integration of cognitive aspects of learning with the emotional aspects of experience and learning is known as:-
- The person's failure to respond to the second stimulus while continuing to respond to the first stimulus is because of:-
- When a target is defined by just one distinctive feature which is available on its feature map and it calls attention to itself is known as:-
- Visuospatial sketch pad is a component of which of the following?