Psychology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 33

Question 641 Psychology

Many neo-Freudians modified Freud’s original personality theory to place more emphasis on what?

Correct answer A. Social and cultural factors

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Question 642 Psychology

Who identified universal symbolic images that appear in myths, art, dreams and other expressions of the collective unconscious?

Correct answer C. Jung

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Question 643 Psychology

Which of the following is NOT one of the aspects of development that psychologists study?

Correct answer D. Immutable laws of development

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Question 644 Psychology

A researcher studies test anxiety in military academy cadets by measuring galvanic skin response (GSR). What does the GSR represent?

Correct answer C. dependent variable and operational definition of anxiety

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Question 645 Psychology

Which of the following gives the best research control over genetic factors in experiments?

Correct answer A. Identical twins

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Question 646 Psychology

Belief in the id would represent the view, whereas recording how often aggressive acts occur would represent the approach. Which pair fills the blanks?

Correct answer C. Structuralist, functionalist

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Question 647 Psychology

Which of these phenomena would a parapsychologist study?

Correct answer D. all of the above

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Question 648 Psychology

In an experiment on how different drugs affect reaction time, every participant is tested under all of the conditions. What design is this?

Correct answer B. Within subjects design

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Question 649 Psychology

Which approach is often criticised because its findings cannot be checked by other researchers?

Correct answer C. Introspectionism

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Question 650 Psychology

Which pairing shows an incorrect association?

Correct answer B. Seligman – social exchange theory

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Question 651 Psychology

In an experiment, the control group should be treated in the same way as the experimental group except for what?

Correct answer C. Receiving different levels of the independent variable

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Question 652 Psychology

Which field of scientific inquiry is psychology chiefly concerned with?

Correct answer D. The science of behaviour and mental processes

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Question 653 Psychology

Abraham Maslow is a chief proponent of which school of human behaviour?

Correct answer C. humanist

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Question 654 Psychology

To which school of thought did William James, James Cattell, John Dewey and E. L. Thorndike all belong?

Correct answer D. None of the above

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Question 655 Psychology

In psychology, motivation was first explained in terms of instinctive behaviour. Whose theory was this idea largely based on?

Correct answer A. Darwin

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Question 656 Psychology

A researcher planning an experiment is worried that differences in participants’ IQ might confound the results. All of the following could solve this problem EXCEPT which one?

Correct answer A. running a double-blind experiment

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Question 657 Psychology

To test the prediction that students who underline chapters while reading retain information better than those who do not, what would we first have to state this prediction as?

Correct answer B. A hypothesis

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Question 658 Psychology

Which school of psychology, and which psychologist, argued that nearly all behaviour results from conditioning and that the environment shapes behaviour?

Correct answer C. Behaviourism, Watson

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Question 659 Psychology

Psychologists who diagnose and treat emotional problems, including mental illness and marital and family conflict, belong to which subfield?

Correct answer B. clinical and counseling

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Question 660 Psychology

A researcher sits beside a playground, carefully observing a small group of children. Which method is being used?

Correct answer D. Field study

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