A. case study
B. survey research
C. archival research
D. field research
Related Mcqs:
- Which TWO of 1: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific moods.
2: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific situations.
3: In collaborative empiricism, the therapist formulates a hypothesis and then tests its validity himself.
4: In collaborative empiricism, the client is asked to formulate a hypothesis and than helps the therapist to
test its validity.the following definitions key features of Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy are accurate?A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4 - 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 - Sherif’s autokinetic experiments and Asch’s line studies demonstrated the power of which social psychological factor on the degree to which people confirm?
A. Group identity
B. individual norms
C. Individual identity
D. Group norms - Towards the close of the 19th century, who, as a result of his experiments with animals, formulated laws of learning that seemed to confirm his belief concerning the trial and error nature of learning?
A. William james
B. Edward Thomdike
C. G.Stanely Hall
D. Charles H.judd - In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers’ predictions, psychologists sometimes:
A. treat information about individual participants confidentially
B. deceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment
C. allow subjects to pick whether they are in the experimental or control group
D. allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment - A psychologist systematically observes and records the behavior of children on their first trip to a dentists’ office. This is ___________?
A. an experiment
B. a correlational study
C. a descriptive study
D. a self-report study - A researcher wants to test the hypothesis that the number of bystanders affects the probability of helping behavior. She sets up three conditions, one with no bystanders, one with two bystanders and one with four bystanders. Which of the following is true?
A. there is one independent variable having three levels
B. there are three independent variables having one level each
C. there is one independent variable and three dependent variables
D. there is one independent variable having four levels - A hypothesis is _____________?
A. the independent variable
B. an explanation of a phenomenon
C. a testable prediction derived from a theory
D. the dependent variable - When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?
A. assimilation
B. adaptation
C. conservation
D. accommodation - Watson argued that all behavior is composed of reflexive responses to stimuli, but Skinner later argued that behavior is determined ____________?
A. patterns
B. consequences of responses
C. predictability of responses
D. strength of responses
