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This set of Personality Development Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Personality Development Set 4

Q1 | Set of rules for structuring sentences is called
  • grammar
  • linguistic determinants
  • morphemes
  • phonemes
Q2 | ______ thinking goes from general principles to specific facts
  • divergent
  • inductive
  • deductive
  • convergent
Q3 | A perceptual set that causes one to become hung up on wrong solutions or remainblind to alternatives is called
  • fixation
  • incubation
  • creative thinking
  • conditional thinking
Q4 | General 'mental short cuts' or quick decision making rules could be consideredwhat type of problem solving strategy?
  • heuristics
  • ideal strategy
  • brainstorming
  • graphical representations
Q5 | Which of the following is the final step in problem solving?
  • identify the problem
  • selecting one effective solution
  • generate potential solution
  • evaluation of each solution
Q6 | Which of the following is the first step in problem solving?
  • identify the problem
  • selecting one effective solution
  • generate potential solution
  • evaluation of each solution
Q7 | In order for something to be creative, it should be useful,
  • self-explanatory and clever
  • original and surprising
  • flexible and inspiring
  • valuable and unique
Q8 | Creativity includes
  • convergent thinking
  • divergent thinking
  • deductive thinking
  • inductive reasoning
Q9 | Unconscious thought process involved in creative thinking is at work in this stage
  • illumination
  • evaluation
  • incubation
  • preparation
Q10 | Incoming sensory information must go through this sequence in order to beremembered
  • storage, encoding, retrieval
  • storage, encoding, retrieval
  • encoding, storage, retrieval
  • encoding, retrieval, storage
Q11 | Which of the measures of retention is considered the most sensitive?
  • recognition
  • free recall
  • recall
  • relearning
Q12 | How to measure explicit memory?
  • recalling method
  • recognition method
  • relearning method
  • all of the above
Q13 | The entry point of memory- the initial stage of the memory system in which all ofthe stimuli that bombard our senses are retained in their original sensory form for avery brief time
  • sensory memory
  • long term memory
  • short term memory
  • implicit memory
Q14 | Rehearsal is the process of actively manipulating information so that it can beretained in memory. There are two main types of rehearsal, they are
  • sustenance and maintenance rehearsal
  • specific and non-specific rehearsal
  • maintenance and elaborative rehearsal
  • elaborative and specific rehearsal
Q15 | The process of linking new information in a meaningful way with informationalready stored in memory or with other new information; to aid in its storage andretrieval from long term memory
  • maintenance rehearsal
  • elaborative rehearsal
  • non-specific rehearsal
  • sustenance rehearsal
Q16 | The relatively permanent memory system that holds vast amount of information fora long period of time
  • sensory memory
  • long term memory
  • short term memory
  • iconic memory
Q17 | Psychologists have distinguished between two types of long term memory storage.They are called
  • assertive and procedural memory
  • declarative and assertive memory
  • assertive and interrogatory memory
  • declarative and non-declarative memory
Q18 | The declarative memory system that holds information about specific events orpersonal experiences; the declarative memory system that stores the information wehave about the world
  • episodic; semantic
  • semantic; episodic
  • procedural; explicit
  • explicit; procedural
Q19 | A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
  • echoic memory
  • flash bulb memory
  • implicit memory
  • explicit memory
Q20 | The persistence of learning over time through the encoding , storage and retrievalof information
  • memory
  • learning
  • serial position effect
  • semantic learning
Q21 | Unconscious encoding of incidental information
  • effortful processing
  • rehearsal processing
  • chunking processing
  • automatic processing
Q22 | The most common effortful processing technique where information is repeated
  • mnemonics
  • recall
  • recognition
  • rehearsal
Q23 | Encoding information from its sound
  • iconic
  • echoic
  • semantic
  • recall
Q24 | Encoding information by picturing it in our mind
  • echoic
  • semantic
  • iconic
  • deja
Q25 | Organizing items into familiar, manageable units
  • mnemonics
  • chunking
  • relearning
  • recall