Q2 Exam 2023-24 Practice Questions - Set 1

Ana is instructed by her doctor to wear a patch over one eye while an infection heals. While wearing the patch, Ana will lose her ability to use which of the following depth perception cues?

• Relative size

• Interposition

• Texture gradient

• Linear perspective

• Retinal disparity

Barney is a somewhat distractible second-grade student who finds schoolwork a bit boring. After a couple of minutes of working silently, Barney often starts to misbehave until his teacher, Ms. Skinner, calls his name and scolds him. However, he enjoys this attention from her and continues to misbehave. With respect to Barney’s misbehavior, Ms. Skinner’s attention serves as

• punishment

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• differential reinforcement

• primary reinforcement

Climbing an irregular set of stairs is more difficult for an individual who wears a patch over one eye primarily because

• some depth perception is lost

• half of the visual field is missing

• the ability to perceive interposition is lost

• the patch disrupts the functioning of the vestibular system

• the patch alters the ability of the open eye to compensate

Hermann Ebbinghaus tested his memory using combinations of three-letter nonsense syllables. Which of the following graphs best represents his findings about the relationship between forgetting and time?

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Elizabeth picks up the clothes from her bedroom floor and puts them away to avoid her mother’s repeated nagging. Elizabeth’s behavior is being influenced by

• classical conditioning

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement

• extinction

• punishment

Emiko’s cat often meows for food. Emiko decides to eliminate the behavior by feeding the cat only when it does not meow. Over the next few weeks, she sometimes ignores the cat when it meows. Other times, she feeds the cat when it meows. Which of the following is the most reasonable prediction to make about the cat’s meowing for food?

• It will disappear due to extinction.

• It will decrease overall but not extinguish.

• It will remain unchanged due to a continuous schedule of reinforcement.

• It will increase due to a variable schedule of reinforcement.

• It will increase due to positive punishment.

One advantage of experiments over correlational studies is that experiments generally allow one to

• study a large group of people

• study changes in people over time

• infer cause and effect

• study an individual in depth

• observe people in their natural setting

Firefighters are often required to walk through local buildings and drive trucks around the areas they serve as part of their training. The most likely purpose of this type of training is to develop

• a cognitive map

• a prototype

• an algorithm

• a mental set

• a schema

The area labeled X in the drawing above denotes which of the following structures?

• Dendrites

• Nodes of Ranvier

• Axon terminals

• Mitochondria

• Synaptic cleft

At the beginning of the school year, Juan had trouble paying attention in class because he was distracted by posters in the classroom. Midway through the semester, he could pay attention more easily because he no longer noticed the posters. His decreased attention to the posters is most likely related to

• signal detection

• habituation

• perceptual set

• the cocktail party effect

• the visual cliff