Psychology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 35

Question 681 Psychology

What is the perception of a relationship between two variables that does not actually exist called?

Correct answer A. Illusory correlation

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Question 682 Psychology

If psychology is the science of behaviour and the mind, why is its data always drawn from behaviour?

Correct answer C. Behaviour can be observed and the mind cannot

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Question 683 Psychology

Which specialist is most likely to prescribe medication to treat a psychological disorder?

Correct answer C. psychiatrist

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Question 684 Psychology

One of Darwin’s key ideas is that natural selection gives animals an inborn tendency to behave in ways that do what?

Correct answer C. Help them to survive and reproduce

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Question 685 Psychology

Charles Darwin’s idea of natural selection was most important for which general perspective in psychology?

Correct answer D. Functionalism

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Question 686 Psychology

A teacher carefully watches and records children’s behaviour in school playgrounds to track the development of their physical skills. Which research method is he using?

Correct answer A. naturalistic observation

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Question 687 Psychology

A psychologist expects that rats raised in toy-filled cages will become better learners. What is this expectation?

Correct answer C. Research hypothesis

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Question 688 Psychology

For which school of thought was psychology definitely not the science of the mind?

Correct answer C. Behaviourism

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Question 689 Psychology

The most distinctive feature of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is the belief that the conscious mind is influenced by what?

Correct answer A. unconscious thought processes

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Question 690 Psychology

In a study of alcohol’s effects, some participants drank a non-alcoholic drink that smelled and tasted like alcohol. What was this drink?

Correct answer B. Placebo

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Question 691 Psychology

Which branch of psychology tries to understand the specific biological mechanisms that control behaviour and mental experience?

Correct answer A. Physiological psychology

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Question 692 Psychology

Which school of thought limited psychology’s subject matter to the observable actions of humans and animals?

Correct answer D. behaviourism

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Question 693 Psychology

A psychologist systematically observes and records how children behave on their first visit to a dentist. What kind of study is this?

Correct answer C. A descriptive study

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Question 694 Psychology

What is the study of how specific areas of the nervous system organise and control uniquely human behaviour called?

Correct answer D. Neuropsychology

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Question 695 Psychology

If a rumour spreads that an experiment is assessing racist attitudes, and the subjects take care not to appear racist, what will the results be?

Correct answer D. biased

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Question 696 Psychology

A psychologist studies whether changing an office layout increases worker productivity. What type of research is this?

Correct answer D. Applied research

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Question 697 Psychology

In the phrase “Driver attention as a function of car radio sound”, what does driver attention represent?

Correct answer D. Dependent variable

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Question 698 Psychology

Watson argued that all behaviour consists of reflexive responses to stimuli, but what did Skinner later argue determines behaviour?

Correct answer A. consequences of responses

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Question 699 Psychology

Which development in the second half of the twentieth century contributed most to the cognitive revolution in psychology?

Correct answer C. Increased understanding and use of computers

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Question 700 Psychology

Which approach made a significant contribution by stressing measurable observations?

Correct answer B. Behaviourist

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