In research on the need for achievement, individual differences are usually measured:

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. Which of the following areas of research in psychology is concerned with assessing individual differences, developing tests, and developing new statistical techniques?

   A. experimental psychology
   B. social psychology
   C. psychometrics
   D. physiological psychology

3. The need for achievement has been measured by which personality test?

   A. Thematic Apperception Test
   B. Sentence Completion
   C. Rorschach
   D. MMPI

4. 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

5. 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

6. If the human eye was not responsive to differences in the wavelength of light, we would not be able to perceive differences in:

   A. Intensity
   B. Color
   C. Purity
   D. Brightness

7. Which of the following has not been found in research on gender differences in sexual interest?

   A. Men think about sex more than women
   B. Men initiate sex more than women
   C. Women are more interested in having many partners than men are
   D. Women are less interested in uncommitted sex

8. The subject individual differences has widened the scope of:

   A. Sociology
   B. Psychology
   C. Medicine
   D. Ethics

9. The individual differences are:

   A. Apparent
   B. Hidden
   C. Learned
   D. All of these

10. The knowledge of individual differences is essential so that:

    A. Everybody should perform duty according to his abilities
    B. Everybody can get harmony with the society
    C. Statistical facts of the state should be know
    D. Both (a) and (b)