Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life Quiz 18 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a Repeated Measures Design?
2. For which of the following was Harry Harlow known for?
3. Credibility within Psychology is
4. We tend to believe that our opinions and preferences are objectively true (not just opinions, but actually facts)
5. In literature, which term describes a character's psychological struggle within themselves?
6. Cognitive Dissonance
7. What should be added to the study of psychology for better understanding?
8. What is Ms. Chiang's Room #?
9. What kind of motivation that Early Career Adults (Ages 25-35) is promoting?
10. A test has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. Which of the following scores is within one standard deviation of the mean?
11. Psychology can be defined as .....
12. An example of sensory memory in action is:
13. Correlational research where one specific group of people or person is studied in detail through interviews, file reviews, etc. Not generalizable.
14. The fact that the Mexican immigrant was judged more harshly than the Canadian immigrant in the Mukherjee et al., (2013) is due to the fact that Mexican immigrant is seen as .....
15. The prominent feature of mood disorders is the experience of
16. Which research method would be most appropriate for investigating the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion?
17. According to Humanistic Psychology, what underlies personal nastiness or niceness?
18. ..... focuses on how people change and grow throughout life
19. In the context of reading comprehension, what is the primary function of 'schema'?
20. What does research show about eyewitness confidence?
21. Seligman's three-part description of happiness describes a pleasant life, an engaged life, and a meaningful life. In his analysis a meaningful life derives from
22. The understanding that materials continue to exist even when they cannot be perceived (seen, heard, touched, smelled or sensed in any way)
23. Dr. Ali is a psychologist who believes that psychology should not attempt to understand the mind, but rather focus on understanding the observable actions that people and animals engage in. Dr. Ali s point of view is most compatible with the approach to psychology known as
24. Who proposed the cognitive developmental theory of psycho social development?
25. The protection of participant's self esteem is not a concern for researchers
26. A mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else
27. Which of the following best represents late adulthood?
28. Behavior is primarily shaped by learning. The statement applies to the
29. Social Representations are
30. A physiological function of the right hemisphere:
31. Of the following, who is a humanistic psychologist?
32. Who developed the concept of imprinting?
33. The range of possible (physical) actions by a user on an artefact are
34. The concepts of stranger and separation anxiety were pioneered by which of the following theorists?
35. Memory that holds an image of what we have seen is:
36. "when you see a button, you want to push it."
37. What does Humanistic Psychology say about human motivation?
38. The psychosocial conflict during adolescence, according to Erikson, is:
39. Which statement reflects a reasonable attitude for a good student of psychology to have toward any claim about human behavior?
40. Which of the following is NOT one of the nine major research areas in psychology?
41. What is a consequence that improves a behavior that it follows?EX:Praising a student for not running in the hallway.
42. Our behavior is a direct result of how we feel about ourselves.
43. Lorenz's research on attachment in animals is associated with which phenomenon?
44. Pavlov is famous for conducting experiments with what animal?
45. In Bowlby's attachment theory, what role does the father play in attachment?
46. Freud's efforts to understand and treat psychological disorders stemmed from his puzzlement over ..... disorders.
47. The ..... is the part of the brain that holds the hemispheres together.
48. A psychologist that uses ethnicity, gender, culture and socioeconomic status influence our behavior.
49. Seeing one-eyed monsters would be a(n) ..... Believing that you are Christopher Columbus would be a .....
50. The first school of psychological thought was
51. What is the primary focus of health psychology?
52. The part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behaviour
53. ..... is known for memorizing nonsense syllables and plotting a curve of forgetting
54. The part of the neuron that insulates the axon and increases the speed of the neural message within the neuron.
55. People who are color blind most likely have deficiencies in their
56. Which literary device requires the reader to use cognition to understand the deeper meaning behind the text?
57. What is Brain Plasticity?
58. If you want to use your psychological training to make the workplace more productive, which type of psychology would you probably enjoy most as a career?
59. Isaac has an intense fear of injections. Although he realizes that this fear is irrational, he becomes fearful just going into a doctor's office for a check-up. Which disorder do these symptoms describe?
60. Studies into deep ocean biology is a type of