In a written report of their research psychologists specify exactly how anxiety is assessed, thus providing their readers with a(n):

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. When Saleem returned from combat in the Kargil War, he began experiencing high anxiety that has persisted without any improvement. This example illustrates which anxiety related disorder?

   A. panic
   B. post – traumatic stress
   C. phobia
   D. obsessive – compulsive

3. In the context of Titchener’s research for the most elementary sensory experiences, introspection is a research method involving a detailed verbal report on ____________?

   A. one’s own conscious sensory experience
   B. how one’s own personality affects one’s conscious sensory experience
   C. how one’s own behavior affects one’s conscious sensory experience
   D. all of the above

4. 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

5. Two-point discrimination is assessed in the study of ____________________?

   A. visual acuity
   B. auditory thresholds
   C. cutaneous sensitivity
   D. binocular depth perception

6. Clinical psychologists tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly, and counseling psychologists tend to endorse which of the following?

   A. Eclectic approach
   B. Psychodynamic
   C. Humanistic
   D. Biological

7. Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using a research method know as:

   A. the case study
   B. experimentation
   C. random sampling
   D. naturalistic observation

8. Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzees in the jungle are using research method known as ____________?

   A. the survey
   B. experimentation
   C. naturalistic observation
   D. the case study

9. In the simplest experiment, the two groups of subjects are treated exactly alike except for the ______________ variable.

   A. independent
   B. dependent
   C. extraneous
   D. hypothetical theory formulation

10. The factor to be tested must be defined exactly. Then_______groups are set up:

    A. Five
    B. Four
    C. Three
    D. two