A psychologist studied a gunshot wound victim and found out that brain region destroyed is most important for memory functions. The research is _____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:

   A. tomography
   B. hemispherectomy
   C. phrenology
   D. plasticity

3. In order to understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist has carefully investigated the client’s current life situation and his physical, social-cultural, educational history which research method has the psychologist employed?

   A. the case study
   B. the survey
   C. naturalistic observation
   D. correlational research

4. Who is an important functionalistic psychologist was particularly interested in consciousness, memory and emotions?

   A. John Dewey
   B. William James
   C. Thorndike
   D. Skinner

5. The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?

   A. regeneration
   B. accommodation
   C. aphasia
   D. plasticity

6. Which of the following is most likely to be studied by a cognitive psychologist?

   A. factors that determine group cohesiveness
   B. strategies used by college students to solve a particular problem
   C. play behavior in preschool children
   D. results of visual-spatial tests between genders

7. Research ethics represent an important component of psychological research because:

   A. They provide a set of statistical
   B. They Provide a set of rules to protect participants
   C. They provide a set of hypotheses to be tested
   D. They provide a set standards for variable selection

8. The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied and incorporated into memory is called ________________?

   A. storage
   B. reasoning
   C. encoding
   D. retrieval

9. Dr. Saleem conducts basic research on the relationship between adults’ language Skills and their capacity to solve mathematical problems. Dr. Saleem is most likely a(n)_______________ psychologist.

   A. industrial / organizational
   B. social
   C. clinical
   D. cognitive

10. From the perspective of the life-span psychologist, life stages are important because:

    A. they represent the outcome of major biological changes
    B. they present a set of developmental tasks to be mastered
    C. they provide insight into the values and aspirations of particular cultures
    D. their beginning and end a perfectly correlated with chronological age