PSY504 Collection of Assessments by Maha Malik

1. Which of the following theorist was the first Greek philosopher to present a

coherent theory of how knowledge is acquired and retained? (Plato)

2. William James set up the first psychological laboratory to study perception

and cognition. (False)

3. Plato proposed that ideas are created in the human mind and that these ideas

are then projected out in the world. (True)

4. An example of psychophysics is the relationship of sensation and intensity of

the stimulus. (True)

5. Who proposed the idea of unconscious processing? (Freud)
6. Chomsky in his groundbreaking paper “On verbal behavior” shattered the

simple minded behaviorist model of language designed by __________.

(Skinner)

7. Which of the following branch of psychology deals with the processes

involved in thinking, acquisition and storage of knowledge? (Cognitive)

8. Which of the following statement is true about information processing

approach? (Information processing has stages of processing)

9. The connection of visual cortex with other parts of the brain would also come

under a hardware level description of the process. (True)

10.

What level of information may consist of studying the visual sensation

itself? (Hardware level)

11.

What level of information may involve sensations, thoughts and

decision making? (Software level)

12.

The information processing approach, unlike the stimulus-response

model of behaviorism, looks at how input is transformed into output. (True)

13.

Which of the following neuropsychological method allows live brain

scans and is also less intrusive and radiation free method? (FMRI)

14.

FMRI stands for what? (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

15.

There are 170 billion neurons in the brain. (False)

16.

Which of the following contains a nucleus at its centre which governs

the functions of the neuron? (Cell body)

17.

Dendrites are the tiny branches connected to the cell body and bring

information to the neuron from other neurons. (True)

18.

Which of the following fluid moves between the dendrites from one

neuron and the axon of the other neuron? (Neurotransmitter)

19.

The gap between the neuron which contains the neurotransmitter is

called the synapse. (True)

20.

Which of the following famous Muslim scholar discovered the

structure and function of the eye? (Ibn-al-Haitham)

21.

Visual information passes through the ______ which helps focus the

image on the retina. (Lens)

22.

Which of the following famous Muslim scholar had proposed a dual

visual pathway system? (Ibn-al-Haitham)

23.

Which of the following famous Muslim scholar has also contributed the

development of spectacles and telescopes? (Ibn-al-Haitham)

24.

The Optic nerve processes information about colors and details of the

image. (False)

25.

The auditory information in the ear comes in the form of sound waves

and impacts the ear drum. (True)

26.

Which of the following are connected to each ear and process

information about which ear got the information first and which got it later?

(Delay detectors)

27.

Which of the following cells were studied by Kuffler in order to

understand how sensation transforms into perception? (Gangalion)

28.

Which of the following discovered on-off and off-on cells in 1953?

(Kuffler)

29.

Which of the following cells were activated if the light fell on the centre

of retina? (On-off cells)

30.

Which of the following cells start firing if the light fell on the

periphery? (Off-on cells)

31.

Cats were used by which of the following experimenter in their

experiments to study the visual cortex? (Hubel & Wiesel)

32.

Edge detectors help us to understand where an object ends and other

starts. (True)

33.

Sperling’s method was called the partial-report procedure. (True)

34.

Who wrote the first cognitive psychology book in 1957? (Ulric Neisser)

35.

Who devised a word icon for short term visual memory?? (Ulric

Neisser)

36.

Moray, Bates and Barnett (1965) experiments are the copy of Sperling’s

experiments? (True)

37.

Echoic memory is related to which of the following? (Hearing)

38.

Educational psychology scientifically proved that psychology is much

more than observable behavior only. (False)

39.

We all are living in the past. This past is not a passive term because we

receive auditory information that is: (Five second old)

40.

Attention is a perfect example of a cognitive psychology area. (True)

41.

Attention is double-minded sense. (False)

42.

Who conducted an experiment of dichotic listening task? (Cherry and

Moray)

43.

In dichotic listening experiment subjects wear microphones. (False)

44.

Attention has ________ capacity. (Limited)

45.

Which of the following model states that attention is a lower level

process? (Early selection model)

46.

According to Trisemen model, weakened

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