A parapsychologist would study which of the following phenomena?

Related Mcqs:

1. The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called:

   A. Parapsychology
   B. Gestalt psychology
   C. psychokinesis
   D. ESP

2. The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called:

   A. parapsychology
   B. Gestalt psychology
   C. psychokinesis
   D. ESP

3. Which of the following phenomena was studied by parlor?

   A. Maturation
   B. Animal cognition
   C. Operant conditioning
   D. Classical conditioning

4. You have practice for weeks to perform in the fall play at school. In practice on occasion you have messed up your lines or forgotten a movement, however on the evening of the performance you are flawless. Which of the following phenomena did you likely experience?

   A. social loafing
   B. self- serving bias
   C. social facilitation
   D. deindividuation

5. Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
   1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
   2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
   3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
   4:None of the above

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

6. Which of the following phenomena demonstrate the importance of classical conditioning for human behaviour?

   A. Salivation and responses to light
   B. Illness-induced aversions and phobias
   C. Nausea and headaches
   D. (a),(b) and (c)
   E. None the above

7. As a person views picture one way, he sees craters. When he turns it 180 degrees, the craters become bumps, the perceptual phenomena are due to _______________?

   A. linear perspective
   B. convergence
   C. light and shadow
   D. relative position

8. 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

9. Which of the following is true of Milgram’s (1963) study of obedience? The study found that:

   A. Quite ordinary people taking part in a laboratory experiment were not prepared to administer electric shocks just because an experimenter told them to do so
   B. Participants believed that the shocks they administered would not harm anyone
   C. Apparently pathological behaviour may not be due to individual pathology but to particular social circumstances
   D. None of the above

10. A systematic study of facts according to a reliable and correct method of study is called a __________?

    A. Scientific Study
    B. Biological Study
    C. Methodology
    D. Social Technique