Psychology MCQs

Question 1

The interest of an individual is:

Accepted Answer

A learned role

Question 2

The opponent-process theory is to our sense of color as the gate-control theory is to our sense of ________?

Accepted Answer

pain

Question 3

With increasing age, adopted children’s intelligence test scores become________like their adoptive parents’scores and________similar to their biological parent’s scores.

Accepted Answer

less; more

Question 4

Evidence obtained from measures of reaction time. inspection time and psychological changes suggest that general intelligence has a ________ basis.

Accepted Answer

Biological

Question 5

Development cause different changes:

Accepted Answer

Both positive and negative

Question 6

Research suggests that males exhibit________than females and that females have a________than males.

Accepted Answer

more cerebral specialization; larger corpus callosum

Question 7

In the simplest experimental method, ‘E’ manipulates ________?

Accepted Answer

One Variable

Question 8

After receiving an unexpected “A” on his psychology test, Jordan was easily persuaded went out for dinner. This best illustrates the:

Accepted Answer

Feel-good, do-good phenomenon.

Question 9

________describes the commonest type of rapist.

Accepted Answer

Power- assurance

Question 10

The report usually includes case studies and:

Accepted Answer

Direct quotations

Question 11

The conduction of a nerve impulse down the axon is called a (n):

Accepted Answer

ion potential

Question 12

Which of the following is FALSE regarding Piaget?

Accepted Answer

Cognitive structures of younger children, under the age of 7 reflect abstract mental operations.

Question 13

The most widely used system of psychological classification today is:

Accepted Answer

fund in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM – IV)

Question 14

Which of the following cues do artists us to convey depth on a flat canvas?

Accepted Answer

interposition

Question 15

Gestalt theory emphasized ________?

Accepted Answer

our tendency to see patterns

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