A. a confirmation bias
B. the fundamental attributional error
C. the actor- observer attribution
D. a defensive attribution
E. a self- serving bias
Related Mcqs:
- John failed his mate exam but made a touch down during the homecoming game. He took credit for winning the game but blamed his professor for his Mate test failure. This is known as the:
A. Fundamental attribution error
B. Attribution of negative causality
C. Self- serving bias
D. Cognitive dissonance model - In evolutionary theory, __________________ refers to the reproductive success of an individual organism relative to the average reproductive success in the population.
A. natural selection
B. gene flow
C. adaptation
D. fitness - Musa is attractive and assertive. He arrives at work on time each day, and never complains. When his coworkers are asked to assess Musa’s intelligence, they consistently rate him much higher than his scores on intelligence test. This is an example of _____________________?
A. the mere exposure effect
B. the halo effect
C. the placebo effect
D. the fundamental attribution - A young man explained that he did poorly on his exam because his eyes hurt the test was unfair, and he did not feel the subject was important anyway. The young man is using what type of defense mechanism?
A. rationalization
B. fantasy
C. projection
D. displacement - According to Guilford’s model of intelligence, how many dimensions of intelligence are there?
A. three dimensions
B. 180 dimensions
C. 120 dimensions
D. 10 dimensions - According to Robert Sternberg, intelligence can be divided into three major parts. these three components of intelligence are:
A. fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and rational intelligence
B. analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence
C. artistic intelligence, performance intelligence, and rational intelligence
D. crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence, and transients’ intelligence - Who is the psychologist who constructed the first intelligence test?
A. William James
B. J. B. Watson
C. William Mc Dougall
D. E.B Titchener
E. Alfred Binet - Which one of the following was developed by the Army as the first group-administered test of intelligence?
A. Otis
B. Beta
C. Alpha
D. Bender Gestalt - Which of the following is the most common intelligence test?
A. Rorschach inkblot test
B. Thematic appreciation
C. Dap
D. Stanford Binet v - 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
