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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.
Q2 | The ____________ perspective deals with unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as innerforces, conflicts, or instinctual energy.
Q3 | An organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specialized set ofphenomena and their interrelations is referred as ____________
Q4 | A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena is ________________
Q5 | A ________________ study is a detailed description of a particular individual, based on carefulobservation or on formal psychological testing.
Q6 | A descriptive study that looks for a consistent relationship between two phenomena is referred as ______________
Q7 | The smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer is _____________
Q8 | The smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuliare compared, is ____________________
Q9 | The accurate perception of objects as stable or unchanged despite changes in the sensory patternsthey produce, is ____________________
Q10 | The dimension of auditory experience related to the intensity of a pressure wave, is _________
Q11 | A basic kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and the organism’sresponses ____________________
Q12 | The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction ___________________
Q13 | An operant-conditioning process in which successive approximations of a desired response arereinforced _____________________
Q14 | The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one’s own belief is ______
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 _________________
Q16 | The change from the resting nerve membrane potential of approximately -70mV to a new +40mV is ___________________________
Q17 | Action potential constitutes the ‘firing’ of the neuron and is also referred to as the ________________
Q18 | ________________ referring to a pair of muscles with the same effects at a joint.
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 ____________________
Q20 | The portion of the axon that is located immediately outside the boundaries of the soma is __________
Q21 | __________________ is a portion of the axon after it has subdivided just prior to the synaptic knobs.
Q22 | _____________________ is a portion of the dendrite involved in axodendritic synaptic communication.
Q23 | The space in the synapse that lies between the presynaptic axon and postsynaptic soma or dendrite, is _______________________
Q24 | The structures in the synaptic knobs that store neurotransmitters prior to the release ofneurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft, is _________________________
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.