The first task in psychology is to carefully observe and to objectively describe ___________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Carefully planned and objectively conducted experimentation probably is the most exact and refined method of:

   A. Development
   B. Classification
   C. Research
   D. Evaluation

3. March of the_______in the so-called “Pure” science is conducted under objectively controlled laboratory conditions:

   A. Research
   B. Inspection
   C. Experiments
   D. Calculations

4. The fortune teller who studies your palm carefully before announcing that “great fortune lies in your immediate future” is practicing___________ psychology.

   A. applied
   B. commonsense
   C. pseudo
   D. forensic

5. Performance of an earlier task is interfered with by the learning of a second, more recent task in _________________?

   A. proactive facilitation
   B. proactive inhibition
   C. retroactive facilitation
   D. retroactive inhibition

6. Which of the following characteristics are contributors to job satisfaction, as identified in Hackman and Oldham’s (1976) influential job characteristics theory? 1: Variety 2: Recognition 3: Task identity 4: Task difficulty

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 1 & 2
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 3 & 4

7. Community psychology, health psychology, and neuropsychology are considered which of the following in clinical psychology?

   A. Precursors
   B. Continuums
   C. Inferences
   D. Subspecialties

8. A researcher sits besides a playground, carefully observing a small group of children. The method being utilized is ___________?

   A. field study
   B. case history
   C. survey
   D. life history

9. Teacher carefully monitors and records the behaviors of children on school playgrounds in order to track the developmental of their physical skills. He is most clearly engaged in ___________?

   A. survey research
   B. naturalistic observation
   C. experimentation
   D. replication

10. Sherif planned a disruption of the water supply in a Boy Scout camp in order to observe how social relationships are influenced by:

    A. superordinate goals
    B. group polarization
    C. ingroup bias
    D. social traps