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GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 30

Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting · Sensation: Sensory thresholds and adaptation, vision, hearing, touch and pain, smell and taste, kinesthesis and vestibular sense · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is not true?

  1. We remember the inferences made at the time of encoding and storage.
  2. Modifications in memory can happen due to constructive processes.
  3. Visual images are partial representations of the world around us.
  4. The organizational encoding can never be inherent in the input.

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Correct answer: (D) The organizational encoding can never be inherent in the input.

Explanation

Memory is constructive: we store the inferences we make while encoding, memories can change through reconstruction, and images are only partial copies of the world. The last statement is false, because the organisation of the material is sometimes already present in the input itself (for example in a well-structured text), so organisational encoding can be inherent in the input.