List of top Psychology Questions on Cognition and Memory

Which therapy is based on the principle of "Unconditional Positive Regard"?
Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for transferring short-term memory into long-term memory?
In classical conditioning, what is the term for the reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of extinction?
The tendency to falsely believe, through revision of older memories to include newer information, that one could have correctly predicted the outcome of an event is known as:
Identify the correct sequence of steps as per the information-processing model of memory:
A. Sensory memory
B. Long-term memory
C. Selective attention
D. Short-term memory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Research has shown that short-term memory lasts from about ........... seconds without rehearsal.
Who has proposed two-step concept to describe the process of attitude change?
Find out the correct statements about alternative therapies:
(A) Yoga is an ancient Indian technique detailed in the Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
(B) Alternative therapies are treatment possibilities to the conventional drug treatment or psychotherapy.
(C) Sudarshan Karma Yoga does not benefit individuals with anxiety and depression but helps substance abuse.
(D) There are many alternative therapies like cognitive behaviour therapy and rational emotive therapy.
While judging a personality pageant, raters gave high scores to contestants who were already famous because of their presence in popular TV serials or advertisements and tended to give low scores to those who were not so popular. This phenomenon is called:
Why are most Asian cultures characterized as collectivistic?
"How happy were you with your job on the whole?" Identify the type of question:
Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow :-
The problem of household garbage is common in most Indian cities. Despite the increasing concern for clean environment we do not know to what extent citizens are aware about how to dispose the garbage at home. Sanyogita, a high school teacher took the lead to organise a team comprising of her colleagues in school and started going door to door in the nearby colonies to educate people on how to separate domestic waste and hand it over to the garbage collection agencies. She also avidly read about methods used by other developed countries and felt distressed when she observed how callous some people were towards keeping a clean environment. The local newspapers appreciated Sanyogita's efforts and applauded her publicily. Sanyogita's students and children joined her mission to segregate garbage and send the bio- degradable waste to the nearby recycle plant.