If an activity is difficult to do:

Related Mcqs:

1. Concerns with meeting standards of excellence and accomplishing difficult tasks refer to need for___________?

   A. Affiliation
   B. Achievement
   C. Power
   D. Apperception

2. To help him remember the order of ingredients in difficult recipes, master chef Zakir often associates them with the route he walks to work each day. Zakir is using which mnemonic technique?

   A. peg-word system
   B. acronyms
   C. the method of Loci
   D. chunking

3. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

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

4. Which of the following is true of psychics who have worked with police departments in an effort to solve difficult crimes?

   A. They have used telepathy to read the mind of the criminal
   B. They have provided useful predictions using all their powers in 90 percent of the cases
   C. They have used precognition to forewarn the police of criminals acts
   D. They have reported visions that are no more accurate than guesses

5. Some topic in psychology are difficult to study because:

   A. the overlap with other fields, such as law and business
   B. of ethical considerations
   C. advanced technology that measures brain waves is not available
   D. of a lack of interest in human behavior

6. Teaching is an art as well as a skill Subtle interactions, difficult to discover, may exert a potent influence upon the degree of:

   A. Success
   B. Research
   C. Effectiveness
   D. Failure

7. 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

8. The need to master difficult challenges outperform others, and meet high standard of excellence is referred to as:

   A. a competence motive
   B. a drive motive
   C. an achievement motive
   D. an intellect motive

9. The need to master difficult challenges, outperform others, and meet high standards of excellence motive:

   A. a competence motive
   B. a drive motive
   C. an achievement motive
   D. an intellect motive

10. The disadvantage is the impersonal style making it difficult for the reader or teacher to identify with the:

    A. Conclusions
    B. Samples
    C. Enquiry
    D. Performance