Exam-style practice (harder): Psychology multiple choice quiz
14 questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away. Options are shuffled each attempt, and the review at the end links each missed question to the dot point to revise.
A patient whose corpus callosum has been severed stares at a central point. A picture of a key is flashed briefly in their left visual field only.
What is the patient most likely to do?
Researchers asked participants from a strongly individualist culture and a strongly collectivist culture to explain why a person in a news story committed a crime. Participants from the collectivist culture referred more often to the person's circumstances and relationships; participants from the individualist culture referred more often to the person's character.
Which conclusion is best supported?
An artist wants to create an impression of depth in a flat painting.
Which option lists only depth cues that can be used in a painting?
Two groups are shown the same ambiguous figure, which could be read as the letter B or the number 13. Group 1 first sees the letters A and C; Group 2 first sees the numbers 12 and 14. Most of Group 1 report seeing B, and most of Group 2 report seeing 13.
Which concept best explains the difference?
Participants answered questions about words that required case processing (Is it in capitals?), rhyme processing (Does it rhyme with 'weight'?) or meaning processing (Does it fit the sentence?). They then did a surprise recognition test.
Condition Mean response time to question (ms) Proportion recognised Case 600 0.15 Rhyme 700 0.45 Meaning 780 0.80 Which statement is best supported by the data?
Participants hear a list of 20 unrelated words and immediately recall as many as they can. The first few and last few words are recalled best. In a second condition, participants count backwards by threes for 30 seconds before recalling.
What is the most likely effect of the counting task?
Mei studied Spanish for three years, then started learning Italian. Now, when she tries to speak Spanish, Italian words come to mind instead of the Spanish words she once knew.
Which explanation of forgetting best fits this example?
A dog is classically conditioned to salivate to a bell. The bell is then rung many times without food, and the salivation stops. The next day, when the bell is rung once, the dog salivates a little.
What is the best term for the dog's response on the next day?
Children watched a film in which an adult hit an inflatable doll and was then punished. Afterwards, the children copied few of the adult's actions. When the children were later offered a reward for showing what the adult had done, they reproduced most of the actions.
Which conclusion is best supported?
Participants in a room heard what sounded like a person falling and crying out in the next room. The number of other people present (confederates who did nothing) was varied.
Other people present Participants who helped within 1 minute (%) 0 85 2 62 5 31 Which explanation best accounts for the trend?
A driver cuts in front of Sam on the highway. Sam immediately thinks, 'What a selfish, reckless person,' without considering that the driver might be rushing to a hospital.
Which concept does Sam's judgement illustrate?
Jae believes that cheating is wrong, but he copies answers in a class test. Afterwards he tells himself, 'The test was unfair anyway, so it doesn't really count.'
Which concept best explains Jae's thinking after the test?
In an experiment on context-dependent memory, the mean recall score was 12.4 (95% confidence interval ±1.1) when learning and testing rooms were different, and 14.9 (95% confidence interval ±1.0) when they were the same.
Which conclusion is best supported?
Ten participants' scores on a memory test were: 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14.
What is the interquartile range?