Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:

Related Mcqs:

1. Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:

   A. functional fixedness
   B. the framing effect
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. overconfidence

2. Sania expects that diligent study will enable to earn good grades on her tests. Paula’s belief best illustrates:

   A. the spotlight effect
   B. an Electra complex
   C. an internal locus of control
   D. unconditional positive regard

3. Saima often has temper tantrums and pouts when she can’t have her own away. She often behaves impulsively and becomes extremely impatient if she can’t have the things that she wants immediately. According to Freud’s view of the personality, Saima’s personality appears to be dominated by:

   A. her id
   B. her alter ego
   C. her ego
   D. reaction formation

4. Aima believes that she will succeed in business if she works hard and carefully manages her time. Her belief most clearly illustrates:

   A. reciprocal determinism
   B. an internal locus of control
   C. reaction formation
   D. the self-reference phenomenon

5. Five-year-olds who were surprised to discover that a Blind-Aids box contained pencils subsequently delighted in anticipating their friend’s false belief about the contents of the box. This best illustrates that the children had developed a(n):

   A. conventional morality
   B. theory of mind
   C. concept of conservation
   D. secure attachment

6. The need to master difficult challenges outperform others, and meet high standard of excellence is referred to as:

   A. a competence motive
   B. a drive motive
   C. an achievement motive
   D. an intellect motive

7. The need to master difficult challenges, outperform others, and meet high standards of excellence motive:

   A. a competence motive
   B. a drive motive
   C. an achievement motive
   D. an intellect motive

8. An eagerness to believe that victims of a natural disaster are being punished by God for their sins best illustrates a potential consequence of:

   A. deindividuation
   B. the mere exposure effect
   C. the bystander effect
   D. the just-world phenomenon

9. Athletes often attribute their losses to bad officiating. This best illustrates:

   A. learned helplessness
   B. the spotlight effect
   C. self-serving bias
   D. an Electra complex

10. Because Ken is 6 6, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college’s basketball team. The mistaken judgement best illustrates the impact of:

    A. the availability heuristic
    B. confirmation bias
    C. the representativeness heuristic
    D. the belief perseverance phenomenon