One of the following statements is FALSE-but which one?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following statements about the cortex is FALSE?

   A. Within the cortex, the general flow of local information runs vertically
   B. Within the cortex, information flows to cells in other layers above and below the activated cells
   C. Hubel and Wiesel (19613) discovered that all cortical neurons respond best the spots of light
   D. All of the above

2. Which of the following statements about Swinney’s 1979 experiment is FALSE?

   A. Participants were presented with spoken passage like these; (a) Mary needed to buy some presents, so she went to the bank;(b) Mary found the river cold ,so she swam to the bank
   B. immediately after the presentation of the ambiguous word, Swinney presented a single letter string on a screen participants had to decide whether the letter string was a world or not(a lexical decision)
   C. When the string was a word, it could either be related to the intended sense of the ambiguous word(e.g) money’) related to the other sense (e.g mud), or unrelated to other
   D. It turned out that there was differential advantage (priming) for different sense of the word when there was a delay before the second stimulus depending on the meaning so context appeared to affect initial sense selection

3. Which of the following statements about Pavlov’s dogs is FALSE?

   A. Pavlov’s standard procedure, involved the following: a dog was given access to food, and each presentation was accompanied (usually slightly preceded by the occurrence of a neutral event, such as a flashing light
   B. After several training trials (pairings of light and food), the dog would salivate at the flash of light, before any food had appeared
   C. Salivation at the presentation of food is called a conditioned response
   D. The event that evokes the conditioned response is referred to as a conditioned stimulus

4. Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
   1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
   2. Theories are statements of what rather than why
   3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations
   4. All of the above

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

5. Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

   A. Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as clinical in the style, while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’
   B. Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge
   C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence
   D. Profiling common characteristics of known offenders involves gathering data about the crime for multiple sources

6. 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

7. One of these statements referring to organizational culture is FALSE – please highlight it:

   A. Organizational culture can be described as shared values, attitudes and beliefs held by organizational numbers
   B. Play levels are not a manifestation of organizational culture
   C. Organizational psychologists have adopted three approaches to understanding culture
   D. We can best understand organizational culture by adopting a multi-dimensional perspective

8. One of these statements about job selection is FALSE. But which one?

   A. job selection is based on the premise that there are differences between people which can be identified
   B. job selection is based on the premise that there are differences between people that have an impact on how effective people are in a particular job
   C. Psychologists are beginning to come to the fore in terms of developing and using personal selection methods
   D. Failure to achieve a fit between the person and the organization can lead to a feeling of low esteem on the part of the employee

9. Which of these statements about training is FALSE?

   A. There was very little change in work environments over the last quarter of the twentieth century
   B. most people at work need continual training to update their skills
   C. The approach to training in many organizations is often reactive
   D. Psychologists have much to offer organizations in making training effective

10. One of these statements referring to organizational culture is FALSE – please highlight it:

    A. Organizational culture can be described as shared values, attitudes and beliefs held by organizational numbers
    B. Pay levels are not a manifestation of organizational culture
    C. Organizational psychologists have adopted three approaches to understanding culture
    D. We can best understand organizational culture by adopting a multi – dimensional perspective