Professor Pegler’s research efforts focus on how the use of heuristics influences the way people assess financial risks. Which specialty area does his research best represent?

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. Professor Saxton was skeptical about the accuracy of recently reported research on sleep deprivation. Which process would best enable her to assess the reliability of these findings?

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

3. Although Sue Yen sees her chemistry professor several times a week, she didn’t recognize the professor when she saw her in the grocery store. This best illustrate the importance of:

   A. Context effects
   B. Perceptual adaptation
   C. Proximity
   D. Visual capture

4. Professor Vasquez believes that nearly all psychological disorders can ultimately be traced to abnormalities in brain chemistry, Professor Vasquez:

   A. evolutionary perspective
   B. biological perspective
   C. humanistic perspective
   D. cognitive perspective

5. John failed his mate exam but made a touch down during the homecoming game. He took credit for winning the game but blamed his professor for his Mate test failure. This is known as the:

   A. Fundamental attribution error
   B. Attribution of negative causality
   C. Self- serving bias
   D. Cognitive dissonance model

6. Research ethics represent an important component of psychological research because:

   A. They provide a set of statistical
   B. They Provide a set of rules to protect participants
   C. They provide a set of hypotheses to be tested
   D. They provide a set standards for variable selection

7. Musa is attractive and assertive. He arrives at work on time each day, and never complains. When his coworkers are asked to assess Musa’s intelligence, they consistently rate him much higher than his scores on intelligence test. This is an example of _____________________?

   A. the mere exposure effect
   B. the halo effect
   C. the placebo effect
   D. the fundamental attribution

8. 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

9. When Professor ljaz nervously began teaching a university class for the first time, he overestimated the extent to which his student would notice that he was anxious. His reaction best illustrates:

   A. reciprocal determinism
   B. self-serving bias
   C. the spotlight effect
   D. an Electra complex

10. Viewing people from different groups as individuals and viewing people from different subgroups(such as Scots and English) as members of a single superordinate group represent which two types of prejudice reduction strategies?

    A. Intergroup contact
    B. Decategorization
    C. Recategorization
    D. a and b
    E. b and c