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This set of Basic Psychological Process Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Basic Psychological Process Set 1

Q1 | The ___________ perspective focuses on social and cultural forces outside the individual.
  • cognitive
  • learning
  • socio-cultural
  • learning
Q2 | The ____________ perspective deals with unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as innerforces, conflicts, or instinctual energy.
  • biological
  • ecological
  • ethological
  • psychodynamic
Q3 | An organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specialized set ofphenomena and their interrelations is referred as ____________
  • theory
  • hypothesis
  • definition
  • skepticism
Q4 | A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena is ________________
  • theory
  • hypothesis
  • definition
  • skepticism
Q5 | A ________________ study is a detailed description of a particular individual, based on carefulobservation or on formal psychological testing.
  • observational
  • experimental
  • field
  • case
Q6 | A descriptive study that looks for a consistent relationship between two phenomena is referred as ______________
  • field study
  • survey
  • correlational study
  • experimental
Q7 | The smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer is _____________
  • absolute threshold
  • sensation
  • perception
  • difference threshold
Q8 | The smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuliare compared, is ____________________
  • absolute threshold
  • sensation
  • perception
  • difference threshold
Q9 | The accurate perception of objects as stable or unchanged despite changes in the sensory patternsthey produce, is ____________________
  • convergence
  • retinal disparity
  • monocular cues
  • perceptual constancy
Q10 | The dimension of auditory experience related to the intensity of a pressure wave, is _________
  • binatural cue
  • loudness
  • pitch
  • timbre
Q11 | A basic kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and the organism’sresponses ____________________
  • trial and error
  • conditioning
  • cognitive
  • insight
Q12 | The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction ___________________
  • generalization
  • discrimination
  • spontaneous recovery
  • stimulus gradient
Q13 | An operant-conditioning process in which successive approximations of a desired response arereinforced _____________________
  • shaping
  • extinction
  • modelling
  • instinctive drift
Q14 | The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one’s own belief is ______
  • confirmation bias
  • hindsight bias
  • justification bias
  • cognitive bias
Q15 | Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief thatyou remember something when it never actually happened is _________________
  • flash bulb
  • confabulation
  • misattribution
  • eyewitness
Q16 | The change from the resting nerve membrane potential of approximately -70mV to a new +40mV is ___________________________
  • action potential
  • refractory period
  • resting potential
  • all or none law
Q17 | Action potential constitutes the ‘firing’ of the neuron and is also referred to as the ________________
  • nerve impulse
  • synapse
  • threshold
  • refractory period
Q18 | ________________ referring to a pair of muscles with the same effects at a joint.
  • adipose
  • agonistic
  • atropine
  • agenesis
Q19 | The process by which an image is kept in focus on the surface of the retina while the object beingviewed varies in distance from the eye is referred as the ____________________
  • retinal disparity
  • autonomic
  • accommodation
  • phi phenomena
Q20 | The portion of the axon that is located immediately outside the boundaries of the soma is __________
  • end buttons
  • axon hillock
  • axoaxonic
  • axon collateral
Q21 | __________________ is a portion of the axon after it has subdivided just prior to the synaptic knobs.
  • basal ganglia
  • axon hillock
  • end buttons
  • axon collateral
Q22 | _____________________ is a portion of the dendrite involved in axodendritic synaptic communication.
  • dendritic spine
  • dentate nucleus
  • cross-cuing
  • contrecercep
Q23 | The space in the synapse that lies between the presynaptic axon and postsynaptic soma or dendrite, is _______________________
  • synaptic vesicle
  • synaptic knob
  • synaptic cleft
  • synapse space
Q24 | The structures in the synaptic knobs that store neurotransmitters prior to the release ofneurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft, is _________________________
  • synaptic knob
  • synaptic vesicle
  • synaptic space
  • nodes of ranvier
Q25 | __________________ is a fat and protein substance surrounding some axons in the nervous system,arranged as a series of segments along the length of the axon.
  • naloxon
  • nodes of ranvier
  • myelin sheath
  • spindle