A. Revenge
B. Performance monitoring
C. Hostile action
D. Counterproductive behavior
Related Mcqs:
- Rudy has been on a strict diet of 1000 calories per day for the last six weeks. He lost considerably more weight in the first three weeks of his diet than in the last three because:
A. his insulin level has decreased
B. learn tissue is maintained by fewer calories than is fat tissue
C. his metabolic rate has decreased
D. his fat cells have decreased in number - 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 - Which of the following characteristics are contributors to job satisfaction, as identified in Hackman and Oldham’s (1976) influential job characteristics theory? 1: Variety 2: Recognition 3: Task identity 4: Task difficulty
A. 1,2 & 3
B. 1 & 2
C. 2 & 3
D. 3 & 4 - You have practice for weeks to perform in the fall play at school. In practice on occasion you have messed up your lines or forgotten a movement, however on the evening of the performance you are flawless. Which of the following phenomena did you likely experience?
A. social loafing
B. self- serving bias
C. social facilitation
D. deindividuation - Nolan used to love tequila. However, a few weeks ago he drank way too much tequila and became very, very sick. His tendency to drink tequila has since declined dramatically. In operant terms, this sequence of events represents:
A. generalization
B. negative reinforcement
C. higher-order conditioning
D. punishment - Zeeshan was involved in a bad car accident three weeks ago in which his best friend died at the scene. Ever since the accident, Zeeshan has not been able to sleep, thinks about the accident all the time and refuses to ride in a car. Zeeshan is most likely suffering from:
A. Depression
B. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
C. Acute Stress Disorder
D. PTSD - Each time you see your car, it projects a different image on the retina as of your eyes yet you do not perceive it as changing. This is because of ________________?
A. perceptual set
B. retinal disparity
C. perceptual constancy
D. convergence - Maya has always preferred individual assignments to group projects because she finds that she can accomplish more when she works on her own. the process that would best explain why Maya accomplishes less when she works as part of group is _________?
A. social loafing
B. social interference
C. diffusion of responsibility
D. the bystander effect - College students routinely underestimate how much time it was take them to complete assigned course projects. This best illustrates the impact of:
A. the representativeness heuristic
B. framing
C. overconfidence
D. functional fixedness - Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.A. 1 & 4
B. 1 & 3
C. 2 & 3
D. 2 & 4
