Class 11 Psychology Chapter 2 Methods Of Psychology Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. What does it provide about our inner experiences?
2. The ..... variable is the behavior of the person or animal in the experiment.
3. When psychologists conduct research, they are trying to find out the right and wrong answers to questions they have.
4. Which of the following is used to collect self-reported data from people?
5. Piaget is best known for his work in:
6. What does the term 'cumulative record' refer to in psychology?
7. In an experiment, the ..... variable is tested by the researcher to observe its effect(s) on the ..... variable.
8. Positive reinforcement:
9. Special abilities such as precognitions, psychokinesis, telepathy, and clairvoyance
10. Psychology is a science.
11. The founder of structuralism
12. The basic unit of heredity is the:
13. What part of the brain connects the two hemispheres?
14. How do scientists confirm the findings of a study?
15. By using a random sample of a population for a study, scientists:
16. Which disorder involves the sudden onset of sleep?
17. Is any stimulus or event which varies or can take on different values and can be measured.
18. What is the main focus of the behaviorist approach?
19. In depth study of a single person or group revealing some general principle
20. The part of the brain that regulates hunger and thirst is the:
21. The longitudinal method is concerned with observing
22. The ability to detect a difference between two stimuli is the:
23. Observation is done in a real life setting
24. In operant conditioning, behavior is learned through:
25. An educated guess, the second step in the research process
26. What is a disadvantage of the observation method?
27. What is the meaning of the word 'Observation'?
28. What type of correlation has one value increasing as the other value is also increasing?
29. Which sense is most connected to memory?
30. Which of the following is an experiment in which the participants do not know whether they are receiving a treatment or not?
31. According to the behaviorist perspective, psychological science should be rooted in what?
32. Believed body was inhabited by various spirits which were responsible for all behaviors Abnormal behavior was believed to be caused by possession of evil spirits
33. Spontaneous recovery occurs when:
34. In naturalistic observations, there is no control over extraneous variables.
35. What can we study through external behavior according to the advantages of observation?
36. In an experiment, it is useful to have a control group to
37. Which of the following is NOT a type of observation method?
38. Reinforcement schedules that vary the number of behaviors required for reward are:
39. Classical conditioning always involves:
40. A prediction has been made that the chance that a person will be robbed in a certain city is 15%.
41. A person who cannot see distant objects clearly is likely:
42. A specific, testable prediction, narrower than a theory
43. Repeating a study in order to confirm the results of the original study
44. A tentative statement of the relationship between variables as answer to the research questions.
45. The vast majority of psychologists are against the use of animals in studies because of the potential for harming the animals
46. Which option below is an ethical way to protect participants in psychological research?
47. Pierce calls people and asks them a specified list of questions concerning their opinions of how irritating telemarketers can be. What kind of research is Pierce conducting?
48. Who is the founder of the Psychoanalytic Approach?
49. An experiment where participants and experimenters are not aware who receives the treatement in order to elimanate any bias woud be ..... ? ..... experiment.
50. An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded .....
51. A baby's ability to understand that objects exist even when not seen is called:
52. ..... is the study of the human brain:its mind and behavior through scientific study.
53. ..... measures the relationship between 2 variables, such as higher number of hours spent studying and higher test scores.
54. School of thought founded by Sigmund Freud
55. What kind of reinforcement is money?
56. Which one is NOT a step in The Scientific Method
57. The ..... began studying human behavior in the fifth & sixth centuries B.C. and decided that humans were rational beings.
58. The dependent variable is so called because its value depends or may depend on the value of the independent variable.
59. Learning by observing others is called:
60. Researchers who study single individuals in depth in order to uncover general principles of thinking and behavior are using which research method?