Human Development — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

The unit of the brain is ______________.

1. Nephron.
2. Neuron.
3. Dendrite.
4. Golgi apparatus.

Which law states that he smallest detectable difference for any intensity of a stimulus is a constant function of the intensity of the stimulus?

1. Fechner's law.
2. Weber's law.
3. Power law.
4. Law of effects.

What regulates the level of sugar in the blood?

1. Thalamus.
2. Hypothalamus.
3. Parathyroids.
4. Pancreas.

In Piaget's classification system, the child learns language and the logic of classification and numbers during which period?

1. Sensorimotor.
2. Latency.
3. Formal operations.
4. Concrete operations.

The ____________ nerves carry sensory messages.

1. Efferent.
2. Motor.
3. Association.
4. Afferent.

____________ are the junctions of nerve impulses.

1. Synapse.
2. Axon.
3. Cerebrum.
4. Muscle.

Distant objects necessarily produce smaller retinal images than nearby objects of the same size; this provides the basis for the cues of:

1. Texture gradients.
2. Linear perspective.
3. Relative size.
4. Both (b) and (c).

_____________ is defined as the temporary or long-term loss of material that was learnt earlier.

1. Forgetting.
2. Memory.
3. Perception.
4. None of these.

Thinking is closely related to:

1. Language.
2. Feelings.
3. Perception.
4. Ideas.

___________ is the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.

1. Gestalt.
2. Figure-ground.
3. Closure.
4. Grouping.