Psychology MCQs

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The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called:
A. Sensory completion
B. Closure
C. Figure-ground
D. Continuation
Responding to a substance like a sugar pill as if it were a drug is called:
A. The placebo effect
B. An extraneous variable
C. Variability
D. Psychosomatic illness
What is socialization?
A. Our identity
B. What people see as our status in society?
C. The process by which we learn what is expected of us in society
D. The roles we occupy in our daily lives
What is subculture?
A. A culture with in a culture
B. Something which breaks the rules
C. A way of life
D. None of the above
In Asch’s study of conformity, subjects:
A. Were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simples
B. Were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to stranger
C. Indicated which of three lines matched a “standard line” in length
D. Became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice
The McGurk effect best illustrates:
A. Color constancy
B. Sensory interaction
C. The rubber-hand illusion
D. Phantom limb sensations