A. a negative correlation
B. a zero correlation
C. a positive correlation
D. a perfect correlation
Related Mcqs:
- Natasha claimed that her failure to get “A’s” in all her college courses meant she was incompetent. Her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting, “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of all college students are incompetent!” The therapist’s response was most typical of a(n)______therapist.
A. eclectic
B. psychoanalytic
C. cognitive
D. behavior - A student who has studied German in high school, takes a course in French in college and now has trouble remembering the German. This is an example of the effects of __________________?
A. retroactive interference
B. proactive interference
C. state-dependent learning
D. encoding specificity - Rowena expects to be rewarded by her parents with a major present, such as a new car, if she graduates from college with honors. Her resulting hard work in college best illustrates the_________theory of motivation.
A. instinct
B. drive reduction
C. incentive
D. evolutionary - Clinical psychologists tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly, and counseling psychologists tend to endorse which of the following?
A. Eclectic approach
B. Psychodynamic
C. Humanistic
D. Biological - The study in which college students attached a bumper sticker for a militant black organization to their cars and then received frequent traffic citations demonstrates:
A. group prejudice
B. scapegoating
C. personal prejudice
D. discrimination - College students routinely underestimate how much time it was take them to complete assigned course projects. This best illustrates the impact of:
A. the representativeness heuristic
B. framing
C. overconfidence
D. functional fixedness - If you intended to stop at the corner shop on the way home from school, but instead took your usual path from school to your home and missed the corner shop, then your behaviour has been controlled by which type of learning?
A. Response-outcome association
B. Stimulus-response association
C. Selective response learning
D. Instrumental learning
E. Stimulus-habit association - A your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your class teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of __________________?
A. encoding failure
B. storage failure
C. retrieval failure
D. state-dependent memory - A high school junior admires a movie star and follows the star’s life on the screen and in the newspapers, experiencing the same emotions as the star would. The student is using what type of defense mechanism?
A. repression
B. displacement
C. projection
D. identification - We wish to test the hypothesis that music improves learning. We compare test scores of students who study to music with those who study in silence, Which of the following is an extraneous variable in this experiments?
A. the presence or absence of music
B. the students test scores
C. the amount of time allowed the studying
D. silence
