An eagerness to believe that victims of a natural disaster are being punished by God for their sins best illustrates a potential consequence of:

Related Mcqs:

1. Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:

   A. functional fixedness
   B. the framing effect
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. overconfidence

2. Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:

   A. functional fixedness
   B. the farming effect
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. over confidence

3. The action potential ‘jumps’ along an axon. The gaps in a myelinated axon that the action potential ‘jumps’ to are called the ____________?

   A. Broca’s area
   B. Nodes of Ranvier
   C. terminal buttons
   D. Wernicke’s area

4. The major factors involved in changing resting membrane potential to active membrane potential include:

   A. Na+ and K+ ion movement
   B. Membrane potential
   C. Reversal of charges
   D. All of the above

5. How long do mood swings happen for bipolar disorder victims?

   A. several days at a time
   B. A few days to many years
   C. A few weeks at a time
   D. 6 months

6. Dysthymia is the least serious from of depression, but what effects does it have on its victims?

   A. More victims of this disease commit suicide
   B. It lasts longer than other forms of depression and can lead to double depression
   C. It causes temporary blindness
   D. It is often mistaken for major depression

7. Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.

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

8. Which of the following is a normal consequence of growing old?

   A. severe memory loss
   B. eccentricity
   C. loss of speed of information processing
   D. loss of vocabulary

9. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

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

10. The shared belief among numbers of a work team that it is safe to take interpersonal risks and that they will not be rejected or punished for speaking up is referred to as:

    A. Team process
    B. Psychological safety
    C. Team availability
    D. Groupthink
    E. Team beliefs