People whom make impulsive, regrettable decisions, such as spending large amounts of money at once, suffer from which of these?

Related Mcqs:

1. Noma is optimistic, impulsive, excitable, and restless. In terms of the Eysenck’s’ basic personality dimensions, he would be classified as:

   A. unstable-extraverted
   B. manic-dependent
   C. external-dependent
   D. passive-aggressive

2. Persons who suffer from paraphilias are categorized as having:

   A. somatoform disorders
   B. generalized anxiety
   C. sexual disorders
   D. personality disorders

3. What percentage of Americans suffer from seasonal affective disorder?

   A. 30%
   B. 40%
   C. 55%
   D. 05%

4. A person who experiences a long series of imagined physical complaints suffer from:

   A. a conversion reaction
   B. somatization disorder
   C. a traumatic disorder
   D. an obsession

5. Which of the following is an example of people’s reliance on the representativeness heuristic to make decisions or judgements?

   A. People report that they did more than 50% of the work in domestic situations
   B. People tend to overestimate car accidents
   C. People are more likely to attribute a case of heartbum to spicy food than bland food
   D. People tend to underestimate death from diabetes

6. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power is called:

   A. Social change
   B. Vertical mobility
   C. Social inequality
   D. None of these

7. A man who has numerous reasons to hate his mother instead lavishes her with unrealistic amounts of attention and love. He is probably exhibiting the defense mechanism of:

   A. regression
   B. identification
   C. projection
   D. reaction formation

8. You parked your car in a large car park Monday morning. When you return to the car park Monday night, you have forgotten Fiesta in a large car park filled with green Volkswagens and red Fiestas, which type of visual search would you need to use?

   A. Parallel search
   B. Serial search
   C. Conjunction search
   D. Serial and conjunction

9. Bipolar Disorder develops at least once in the lifetime of approximately what percent of the population?

   A. 60 percent
   B. 20 – 25 percent
   C. 1 – 1.5 percent
   D. 10 percent

10. Following the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York, people across the country donated their time and money to assist the devastated community. This behavior best illustrates_________?

    A. the bystander effect
    B. group polarization
    C. altruism
    D. the just world phenomenon