A. insanity
B. psychopathology
C. self – destructiveness
D. social nonconformity
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - The process by which members of a society are taught how behave and feel by influential members of that society is referred to as:
A. Role ambiguity
B. Socialization
C. Hawthorne effect
D. Social roles
E. normative influence - One of the Darwin’s key ideas is that, because of natural selection, animals have an inborn tendency to behave in ways that ____________?
A. require the lowest energy expenditure
B. they individually select from various natural alternative
C. they learn from their parents
D. help them to survive and reproduce - The phenomenon that refers to the ways in which an individual’s expectations influence perception is called _______________?
A. perceptual set
B. retinal disparity
C. convergence
D. visual capture - A predisposition to behave in a particular way is called a/an ____________________?
A. attitude
B. prototype
C. stereotype
D. orienting reflex - Akhtar is watching a basketball game the neural impulses from his eyes will ultimately travel to his primary visual cortex, but first they must pass through the:
A. amygdala
B. hypothalamus
C. thalamus
D. pons - Professor Vasquez believes that nearly all psychological disorders can ultimately be traced to abnormalities in brain chemistry, Professor Vasquez:
A. evolutionary perspective
B. biological perspective
C. humanistic perspective
D. cognitive perspective - If an individual is facing the psychological crisis of identity versus role confusion, according to Erik Erikson’s model, that individual is most likely ____________?
A. a preadolescent
B. an adolescent
C. a young adult
D. a middle-aged adult - 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 - Who are becoming increasingly alert to the results of psychological studies that deal with individual patterns of growth, maturational readiness to learn, and individual differences in rate and limit of learning?
A. Planers
B. Researchers
C. Educators
D. Group leaders
