GATE Humanities and Social Sciences - Psychology Practice Quiz

Question 1

In a signal detection task, a participant correctly detects the signal in 80 out of 100 signal-present trials and falsely reports signal in 20 out of 100 signal-absent trials. Assuming equal-variance signal detection theory, which statement is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

The participant shows positive sensitivity because the hit rate exceeds the false alarm rate.

Question 2

A researcher finds that memory for the first and last few items in a word list is better than memory for the middle items during immediate free recall. Which phenomenon best explains this pattern?

Accepted Answer

Serial position effect

Question 3

Which of the following is the best example of negative reinforcement?

Accepted Answer

A driver fastens the seat belt to stop the warning sound.

Question 4

A psychologist wants to test whether a new mindfulness intervention reduces anxiety compared with a waitlist control. Participants are randomly assigned to two groups, and anxiety is measured before and after intervention. Which design is being used?

Accepted Answer

Randomized pretest-posttest control group design

Question 5

In Piaget's theory, conservation tasks are typically failed by children in the preoperational stage mainly because they show which cognitive limitation?

Accepted Answer

Centration

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