A. there was no control group for comparison
B. he has not calculated a correlation coefficient
C. of the effect of the observer on the observed
D. he does not specify his dosage of vitamin
Related Mcqs:
- When you go over to visit your friend’s new baby, your friend exclaims, “Watch this! Every time I touch his cheek he turns his mouth towards my finger!” Because you’ve taken psychology, you know that this phenomenon is called the______reflex.
A. grasping
B. complementary
C. rooting
D. startle - Mr. Noor mistakenly believed that a single intake interview in which he simply described his numerous symptoms to a therapist was a treatment for his distress. His immediate relief from many of his symptoms following this session best illustrates:
A. transference
B. counterconditioning
C. unconditional positive regard
D. the placebo effect - Dilawar is taking personality test in which he is shown a series of simple scenes. He is supported to tell a story about what is happening in each scene and suggest what the characters are feeling. The test that Dilawar is taking is the:
A. Sixteen Personality Factor (16 PF) naira
B. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
C. Rorschach test
D. Edwards Personal Preference schedule - A teacher is involved in such an activity he can identify clearly with what is taking place. Anyone outside the action has_________comprehending what is taking place:
A. Approach
B. Convenience
C. Difficulty
D. Quality - An experimenter who has been carefully trained in the techniques of self-observation uses himself as his object. He attempts to analyze his own immediate experience into its elements. This study would most likely occur in the laboratory of ____________?
A. John Watson
B. Max Wertheimer
C. Hermann von Helmholtz
D. Edward Titchener - After learning the combination for his new CNIC No. Mehboob is unable to remember the combination for his National Tax Number. Mehboob is experiencing the effects of ____________________?
A. encoding failure
B. state-dependent memory
C. retroactive interference
D. proactive interference - Zeeshan was involved in a bad car accident three weeks ago in which his best friend died at the scene. Ever since the accident, Zeeshan has not been able to sleep, thinks about the accident all the time and refuses to ride in a car. Zeeshan is most likely suffering from:
A. Depression
B. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
C. Acute Stress Disorder
D. PTSD - Sanam has just finished a long exhausting 6-mile run. She and her friend Jamal are gazing at a hill they need a climb to get back to their car Jamal asks Sanam, “Gee how steep do you think that hill is?” Based on research by Proffitt and his colleagues Sanam is likely to:
A. make a reasonably accurate estimate of the hill’s slant, as most people do
B. underestimate the hill’s slant, as most people do
C. Ooverestimate the hill’s slant, but to a lesser degree than she would have before her exhausting run
D. Overestimate the hill’s slant to an even greater degree than she would have before her exhausting run - Rais just came back from seeing a neurologist. Rais tells you that he will be having a test in which images of his brain will be recorded after radioactive chemicals have been injected into his chemicals have been injected into his bloodstream. However, Rais can’t remember the actual name of the test. it appears that his neurologist is planning:
A. an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording
B. a positron emission tomography (PET) scan
C. a computerized tomography(CT) scan
D. a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan - In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:
A. curvilinear relationship
B. effect of extraneous variables
C. natural experiment
D. placebo effect
