A. Interview people to get their opinions
B. Correlate news paper accounts and the types of beverages consumed
C. test the idea by conducting an experiment
D. research what other experts had thought
Related Mcqs:
- For which of the following assertions is the empirical evidence strongest?
A. The two cerebral hemispheres are specialized to handle different types of cognitive tasks
B. People have a separate stream of consciousness in each hemisphere
C. Each hemisphere has it own cognitive style
D. some people are right-brained, while others are left-brained - Sixteen-year-old Foster wants to spend a few years experimenting with different lifestyles and careers before he settles on who and want he wants to be foster’s behavior illustrates the identity status of:
A. identity moratorium
B. identity foreclosure
C. identity achievement
D. identity diffusion - An extremely complex behaviour that includes biological rhythms, territorial behaviour, courtship, mating, aggression, altruism and social organizations is:
A. Instincts or Reflexes
B. Innate behaviour
C. Kinesis
D. All of the above - The link between physical and subsequent aggressive behavior is probably best explained by:
A. observational learning
B. non-contingent reinforcement
C. resistance to extinction
D. classical conditioning - A person that suggests that the shape of a person’s skull indicates the extent to which that individual is argumentative and aggressive would be a __________?
A. neurologist
B. phrenologist
C. psychoanalyst
D. neuropsychologist - Some recent studies suggest that exposure to aggressive pornography:
A. may increase towards women
B. may perpetuate the myth that women enjoy being raped
C. does both a and b
D. does neither a nor b - The ultimate aim is to produce precise unambiguous statements often for the sake of extending empirical:
A. Study
B. Knowledge
C. Evaluation
D. Education - When individuals notice inconsistency between their own behaviour and attitude, they are said to be experiencing:
A. Psychological reactance
B. Cognitive dissonance
C. Behaviour differential
D. Behavioural inconsistency - What can occur if a person believes that a connection exists between an act and its consequences when there is no relationship between the two?
A. Classical conditioning
B. Superstitious behavior
C. Shaping
D. Sequential learning
E. None of these - What can occur if a person believes that a connection exists between an act and its consequences when there is no relationship between the two?
A. classical conditioning
B. shaping
C. superstitious behavior
D. none of these
