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?

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. The theory of Selective Attention was proposed by ______________?

   A. Selfridge
   B. Bruner
   C. Broadbent
   D. Lockhart and Craik

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. According to groundbreaking research, how do attentional processes affect perceptual processing of information?

   A. Attention create a parallel processing of all visual input
   B. All the visual stimuli fully processed and then attention acts on this information
   C. Attentional processes act early to select a small part of visual input to fully process
   D. Attention is not a critical component of the processing of visual information

5. When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?

   A. assimilation
   B. adaptation
   C. conservation
   D. accommodation

6. Saima often has temper tantrums and pouts when she can’t have her own away. She often behaves impulsively and becomes extremely impatient if she can’t have the things that she wants immediately. According to Freud’s view of the personality, Saima’s personality appears to be dominated by:

   A. her id
   B. her alter ego
   C. her ego
   D. reaction formation

7. ________ perspective focuses on changes in behaviour and cognitive processes over the life span?

   A. Developmental Perspective
   B. Biological Perspective
   C. Humanistic Perspective
   D. Psychoanalytic Perspective

8. A variable such as the personality of a subject, that might affect he outcome of and experiment would be controlled by:

   A. random assignment of subjects
   B. assuming the effects of the variable are negligible
   C. manipulating the dependent variables simultaneously
   D. repeating the experiment several times until the results are consistent

9. Attention refers to:

   A. Attend to an activity
   B. Respond to the signs coming from the outside
   C. Produce harmony between stimulus and response
   D. All of the above

10. If you know the personality of an identical twin, you can expect the personality of the other twin to be:

    A. unrelated
    B. similar
    C. identical
    D. conflicting