Who are becoming increasingly alert to the results of psychological studies that deal with individual patterns of growth, maturational readiness to learn, and individual differences in rate and limit of learning?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
   1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
   2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
   3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
   4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.

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

2. 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

3. As a _______the psychological studies learning so that he can know more and more about it.

   A. Historian
   B. Geographer
   C. Scientist
   D. Sociologist

4. A test of the capacity to learn a particular skill and to learn within a specific area of knowledge is called a/an ____________________?

   A. aptitude test
   B. achievement test
   C. projective test
   D. acquisition test

5. Many psychological principles have involved from_____studies of individual learning process:

   A. Statistical
   B. Laboratory
   C. School
   D. Basic

6. Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?

   A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
   B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
   C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
   D. Both (a) and (c)

7. If an individual is facing the psychological crisis of identity versus role confusion, according to Erik Erikson’s model, that individual is most likely ____________?

   A. a preadolescent
   B. an adolescent
   C. a young adult
   D. a middle-aged adult

8. Which psychological perspective would be most likely to emphasize that people can learn to discontinue bad habits such as smoking?

   A. biological
   B. social-cultural
   C. behavioral
   D. cognitive

9. Researchers have tested whether people can learn to use different search strategies by training them. What was the general conclusion based on these research studies?

   A. People can learn different search strategies, but it does not improve performance over all or on tasks where a target is present
   B. People cannot shift from serial to parallel processing when targets are present
   C. People can learn different search strategies and training does improve performance overall
   D. People can learn different search strategies but it does not improve performance over all or on tasks where a target is absent

10. If the human eye was not responsive to differences in the wavelength of light, we would not be able to perceive differences in:

    A. Intensity
    B. Color
    C. Purity
    D. Brightness