The theory of Selective Attention was proposed by ______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Javaid is a graduate student who is studying the way in which selective attention develops during the preadolescent years. He selected a group of 10-years-olds, and he assesses their selective attention every six months over a two-year period. In this example, Javaid is using:

   A. a longitudinal research design
   B. a sequential design
   C. a cross-sectional design
   D. a multi-factorial research design

2. According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

   A. Competencies
   B. Goals and values
   C. Affects
   D. Encodings

3. “Driver attention as a function of car radio sound” is a phrase in which the driver attention aspect represents the ____________?

   A. intervening variable
   B. independent variable
   C. dependent variable
   D. irrelevant variable

4. Gardner has proposed a theory of multiple intelligences. Which of the following is not one of the dimensions in his theory?

   A. musical
   B. verbal
   C. mathematical
   D. performance

5. 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

6. A visual scene can be separated into two parts, the ______________ which is the object that commands our attention, and the ____________ which seems to exist continuously behind the object?

   A. figure, ground
   B. good form, good continuation
   C. ground, background
   D. good form, circumscription

7. Who proposed the famous PASS theory on psychology?

   A. Binet-Simon
   B. Cattell
   C. J.P Das
   D. Thurstone

8. Social learning theory was first proposed by ___________________?

   A. B. F. Skinner
   B. Bandura and Walters
   C. Miller and Dollard
   D. J. B. Watson

9. Which theory proposed the various forces in the psychological environment have valence?

   A. Instinct theory
   B. Maslow’s need theory
   C. Field theory
   D. Metaphor theory

10. The language Acquisition Device was proposed by ______________?

    A. Piaget
    B. Bruner
    C. Kohler
    D. Chomsky