A. industrial / organizational
B. social
C. clinical
D. cognitive
Related Mcqs:
- The Russian psychologist Vygotsky suggested their children’s ability to solve problems is enhanced by:
A. basic trust
B. egocentrism
C. imprinting
D. inner speech - 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 - 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 - Which of the following criticisms of family and couples therapies are valid?
1: These treatments are not as effective as most individual treatments for problems relating to family or relationship conflict.
2: The attraction of these therapies may reflect little more than the charisma of those who developed them.
3: Bona fide treatments only produce beneficial outcomes for a minority of cases in 20 sessions or fewer.
4: These has been a relative lack of research on many of these therapies.A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4 - 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 aboveA. 1 & 2
B. 1 & 3
C. 2 & 3
D. 4 - Dr. Roberts engages in basic research involving the construction and validation of tests designed to assess individual differences in traits such as anxiety and self-esteem, which specialty area does her research best represent?
A. developmental psychology
B. personality psychology
C. biological psychology
D. social psychology - The application of psychological theories, methods and techniques to solve practical human problems describes an area of psychology known as ____________?
A. Social psychology
B. Para-psychology
C. Applied psychology
D. Humanistic psychology - The result of carefully controlled observations of clever Hans and his ability to solve math problems showed:
A. he could do math
B. he could add. but he could not subtract
C. he was cued by the owner looking up or down
D. none of these could be determined by observation - The brain can solve immensely difficult computational problems and thus allow us to function in our environments by relying on which type of processing?
A. Parallel and visual processing of incoming information
B. Independent and neuronal processing of incoming information
C. Parallel and visual processing of outgoing information
D. Parallel and modular processing of incoming information - Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the _______________?
A. innate capability index
B. innate surface structure ability
C. prosody index
D. language acquisition device
