In general, people attach concepts and attributes to items and events. This knowledge is used to categorize and understand new stimuli and is best known as a person’s ___________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?

   A. next-in-line
   B. misinformation
   C. serial position
   D. spacing

2. During which stage do children understand the world primarily by observing the effects of their own actions on other people, objects and events?

   A. concrete operational
   B. sensorimotor
   C. formal operational
   D. preoperational

3. The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?

   A. concentrated attending
   B. stimulus focusing
   C. selective attention
   D. structured perceiving

4. What type of learning do not rely on forming associations among stimuli and events?

   A. Perceptual learning, spatial learning and discrimination learning
   B. Imprinting, aversive conditioning and instrumental learning
   C. Classroom learning, street wise learning and common sense
   D. Reinforcement, punishment and habituation
   E. (a), (b) and (c)

5. In contrast to a dissimilar-items list, a similar-items list is __________________?

   A. more difficult to learn
   B. easier to learn
   C. learned with equivalent ease
   D. more susceptible to the serial position effect

6. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

   A. drawing an illusory correlation
   B. false consensus effect
   C. the fundamental attribution error
   D. a defensive attribution

7. 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

8. Jung believed that three are basic universal concepts in all people regardless of culture called:

   A. persona
   B. collective consciousness
   C. archetypes
   D. mandalas

9. Which theory of gender-typing suggests that people understand and classify their own behavior and personality traits in terms of masculine and feminine categories?

   A. social learning theory
   B. psychoanalytical theory
   C. evolutionary theory
   D. gender schema theory

10. Those items that are most likely to be forgotten are those ___________________?

    A. with the least digits/letters
    B. at the beginning of a long list
    C. in the middle of a long list
    D. at the end of a long list