Psychology MCQs with explanations

Question 1

Dr. Roberts engages in basic research involving the construction and validation of tests designed to assess individual differences in traits such as anxiety and self-esteem, which specialty area does her research best represent?

Accepted Answer

personality psychology

Question 2

Which profession is cognitive psychology particularly useful in helping?

Accepted Answer

Police

Question 3

What do Hermann Ebbinghaus Francis Galton and Sigmund Freud share in common?

Accepted Answer

a, b, and d

Question 4

You walk into a dark movie theater wearing a white shirt, and notice that the shirt now looks gray. However, you know that the shirt is still white because of ________?

Accepted Answer

brightness constancy

Question 5

Highlight the on FALSE statement about inferential statistics from the below:

Accepted Answer

The test statistic will yield a high value (suggesting that something remarkable is going on) when there is relatively less information than error and a low value (suggesting that nothing remarkable is going on) when there is more information than error

Question 6

The size of the pupil is controlled by the ________?

Accepted Answer

iris

Question 7

The disadvantage is the impersonal style making it difficult for the reader or teacher to identify with the:

Accepted Answer

Conclusions

Question 8

To understand personality, trait theorists attempt to:

Accepted Answer

classify traits and discover how they are related to behavior

Question 9

A hormone whose over secretion in pregnancy stimulates melanocytes in skin to produce brown pigment melanin which darkness the skin is produced by:

Accepted Answer

Median pituitary lobe

Question 10

Marriam believes that she is the Queen of England. She is having:

Accepted Answer

delusions of grandeur

Psychology MCQs with Explanations