Class 12 Psychology Chapter 9 Applications Of Psychology Quiz 4 (25 MCQs)

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1. When both variables move in the same direction
2. Basic research
3. Psychoanalytic perspective
4. What is informed consent
5. A study seeks to find the effects of video games on violent behavior. The researcher creates an experimental design in which 100 random participants play violent video games and another 100 play nonviolent games for 1 hour. The researcher then observes the behavior of the subjects. The behavior of the subjects is known as the
6. Eleven-month-old Luis is working very hard at communicating with his family. While he can understand quite a few words, he can only speak in one-word phrases. Still, those words can convey meaning about what he wants in the world. What are his attempts at communicated called?
7. Which school of psychology focuses on how mental and behavioral processes function to allow individuals to adapt, survive, and flourish?
8. Doctors Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga (1983, 1988) studied split-brain patients-those who had surgery that separated the left and right hemispheres of the brain-and discovered that the two hemispheres had different talents, such as the left specializing in language processing. These psychologists are most likely:
9. Which approach focuses on the idea that to understand behavior, all different approaches are necessary?
10. Which psychologist is most closely associated with the development of behaviorism?
11. What are the limitations of using therapeutic techniques in clinical psychology?
12. True or False. The location of Milgram's study made no difference to the findings.
13. What are the tests called which psychologists and doctors use to measure memory function?
14. In an emergency, if you increase the number of people, what is most likely to happen?
15. Imagine a city is considering a new law to reduce distracted driving. How could behavioral research guide this public policy decision?
16. Applied research
17. True or False. Milgram stated that dispositional factors had the greatest effect on obedience?
18. According to Piaget's theory children who have moved beyond the object permanence stage but demonstrate Egocentricity and a lack of conservation are at what stage
19. Blueprint of the world is referred to as a person's?
20. Those who learn sign language as teens never become as fluent as children exposed to sign language from birth. This best illustrates the importance of ..... for mastering language.
21. A psychologist wants to determine if a new teaching method improves student performance. Which experimental design principle should they use to ensure valid results?
22. The study of how people and machines interact to improve usability and safety.
23. What is learned helplessness in psychology?
24. One famous case that influenced biopsychology is ..... who survived a brain injury that changed his personality.
25. Which core principle of the scientific method involves the identification of the underlying causes of behavior?