Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?

Related Mcqs:

1. Research on the effects of playing violent video games most clearly provides evidence that disconfirms the:

   A. mere exposure effect
   B. catharsis hypothesis
   C. frustration- aggression principle
   D. cognitive dissonance theory

2. When visual information out an object is perceived, which model of perceptual processing emphasizes on-going feedback between the higher centers of the brain(e.g., cognition) and the early stages of processing (e.g., sensory receptors)?

   A. Recurrent processing model
   B. Serial processing model
   C. Parallel processing model
   D. Selective adaptation model

3. While considerable research suggests that human’s exhibit relatively poor reasoning ability what reasons have been given to be critical of this research?

   A. Rationality is not absolute
   B. Experiments lack ecological validity
   C. Satisficing responses are rational responses
   D. People have limited time and data available
   E. All of the above

4. According to groundbreaking research, how do attentional processes affect perceptual processing of information?

   A. Attention create a parallel processing of all visual input
   B. All the visual stimuli fully processed and then attention acts on this information
   C. Attentional processes act early to select a small part of visual input to fully process
   D. Attention is not a critical component of the processing of visual information

5. A theory that children develop a cognitive framework reflecting the beliefs of their society concerning characteristics and roles of males and females, and affecting the processing of new social information is known as:

   A. Gender identity theory
   B. Gender schema theory
   C. Gender constancy
   D. sex role theory

6. 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

7. The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve _________________?

   A. encoding failure
   B. repression
   C. implicit memory loss
   D. interference

8. 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?

   A. personality psychology
   B. cognitive psychology
   C. clinical psychology
   D. developmental psychology

9. Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.

   A. classical; operant
   B. operant; classical
   C. classical; classical
   D. operant; operant

10. Research suggests that we seek out the company of others because of which motives?

    A. To obtain information
    B. To reduce anxiety
    C. To compare ourselves with similar others
    D. All of the above
    E. None of the above