A. Cost
B. Ease of administration
C. Validity
D. Objectivity
E. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- While selecting a psychological test for personnel selection, main concern regarding the test is _____________?
A. Objectively
B. Ease of administration
C. Validity
D. Cost
E. None of these - Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.
A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 3
D. 2 & 4 - Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.A. 1 & 4
B. 1 & 3
C. 2 & 3
D. 2 & 4 - Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 4
D. 3 & 4 - Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 4
D. 2 & 3 - A personal selection test that requires previous knowledge and mastery of a given body of materials, in effect is __________________?
A. an aptitude test
B. an achievement test
C. an intelligence test
D. a test of creativity - The tests are developed as instruments to enable the collection of data about individuals, such as intelligence tests and examinations, attitude scales personality assessment, test of creativity and:
A. Evaluation tests
B. Aptitude tests
C. Questionnaires
D. Analytical tests - What are the two major approaches to treatment of psychological disorders?
1: Biological.
2: Medical.
3: Chemical.
4: PsychologicalA. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 2 & 4
D. 1 & 4 - Which of the following statements regarding the psychological effects of unemployment is FALSE?
A. The unemployed have poorer mental health than comparable groups of employed people
B. The unemployed have poorer physical health than comparable groups of employed people
C. The psychological effects of unemployment do not usually affect anyone apart from the unemployed person
D. none of the above – all are correct - Charles Darwin’s concept of natural selection is most important for which of the following general perspectives in psychology?
A. functionalism
B. structuralism
C. reflexology
D. psychoanalysis
