Class 12 Psychology Chapter 9 Applications Of Psychology Quiz 8 (60 MCQs)

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1. In the area of cognitive development, praise received from your teacher about your recent test is a form of
2. Educational psychology
3. Which cognitive process involves the ability to think about and manipulate information?
4. Nurture's influences on brain development include:
5. The independent variable in Milgrim's Obedience Study dealt with .....
6. Enhanced memory performance that results from retrieving information through testing.
7. Which method has made educational psychology a science?
8. The key characteristic of the sensorimotor stage is
9. The evaluation of scientific work by experts in the same field before publication.
10. What is the difference between psychoanalysis and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
11. Broca's area is located in which hemisphere/lobe?
12. The study of an individual's unique way of thinking, feeling, and acting.
13. Unconscious mind key to understanding conscious thoughts/behavior
14. Manipulating an IV to test a DV in an environment familiar or comfortable to the participant.
15. Who developed the theory of "Functionalism?"
16. Which of the following is a method often used in structuralism
17. Research that addresses real-world problems and practical applications.
18. What is the truth about the myth that psychologists can read minds?
19. It focuses on how people perceive, remember, ..... , and solve problems.
20. A researcher interested in how changes in the cells of the hippocampus (a structure in the brain related to learning and memory) are related to memory formation would be most likely to identify as a(n) ..... psychologist.
21. This is the electrical charge that travels down an axon when a neuron is firing
22. Attribution Theory
23. The group being studied
24. Which of the following best illustrates confirmation bias?
25. Where is psychology useful?
26. Which of the following is a key focus of cognitive psychology?
27. When the researcher is a peer of the subjects
28. What are the key concepts for successful experiments in Social Psychology?
29. Dr. Reed conducts a research study on depression. His hypothesis is that depression results from maladaptive thought patterns. From which perspective is Dr. Reed conducting the study?
30. What part of the neuron houses the nucleus?
31. What is the importance of confidentiality in the therapeutic process?
32. What is a common misconception about psychology?
33. Educational Psychology is branch of Psychology. Psychology is a science. Who is the father of experimental Psychology?
34. Integrated approach that incorporates analysis inBiological, Psychological, Social-cultural
35. Cognitive assessments often measure which of the following abilities?
36. What disorder is characterized by shallow emotions and lack of conscience?
37. This approach is based on the belief that childhood experiences greatly influence the development of later personality traits and psychological problems.
38. The correct direction of the neural impulse within one neuron.
39. When both variables move in different directions. (When one increases the other decreases)
40. What are mental processes included in psychology?
41. What strategies can be used to support diverse learners in the classroom?
42. What techniques does psychology use related to natural science?
43. Gathering information by watching subjects
44. Which explanation of forgetting does Baddeley and Hitch's study Support?
45. Which of the following best describes the main focus of functionalism?
46. What is "applied research" ?
47. Introspection as a method stands rejected by
48. The process of repeating a study to confirm findings.
49. In Harry Harlow's research on infant monkeys, he found?
50. An animal trainer uses rewards to teach his animals to perform silly tricks in the circus. The trainer's techniques are based on principles from which school of psychology?
51. Suppose a government agency wants to reduce childhood obesity. How can scientific research be strategically used to plan effective interventions?
52. Explaining behavior based on a personality
53. According to Integral Psychology, what is the fundamental reality?
54. How often can you expect to get homework in psychology?
55. Manipulating an IV to test a DV
56. According to Social Psychology, what are the causes of social behavior and thought?
57. Wolfgang Kohler's experiment involving Sultan, a chimpanzee who was given two hollow bamboo sticks to retrieve a banana beyond his reach, led to the conclusion that the ability to reach a sudden solution can be described using which of the following terms?
58. This branch of psychology studies functions like ..... , attention, language, and decision-making.
59. New workers at McDonald's are required to complete an employee-training program. This program may have been designed and implemented by which type of psychologist?
60. Charles Spearman is BEST known for his work on which of the following contributions to the field of intelligence?