The ability to deal with new problems and encounters is technically called as___________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following psychologists is MOST likely to deal with the most severe mental health problems?

   A. clinical psychologist
   B. research psychologist
   C. school psychologists
   D. counselling psychologist

2. The result of carefully controlled observations of clever Hans and his ability to solve math problems showed:

   A. he could do math
   B. he could add. but he could not subtract
   C. he was cued by the owner looking up or down
   D. none of these could be determined by observation

3. The Russian psychologist Vygotsky suggested their children’s ability to solve problems is enhanced by:

   A. basic trust
   B. egocentrism
   C. imprinting
   D. inner speech

4. Tests that employ real life problems that the examinee is likely to face on the job are called ___________?

   A. Job tasks
   B. Valid tests
   C. Situational tests
   D. Projective techniques

5. Psychologists who typically apply psychological principles to diagnose and treat emotional problems, including mental illness and martial and family conflict, are in the subfield called ____________?

   A. biological
   B. clinical and counseling
   C. social and personality
   D. school and educational

6. Behavioral problems in which the person exhibits symptoms suggesting physical disease or injury, but for which there is no identifiable cause, are called:

   A. mood disorder
   B. schizophrenia
   C. organic brain pathologies
   D. somatoform disorder

7. The problems of observers seeing only what they expect to see is called:

   A. observer bias
   B. the experimenter effect
   C. the effects of the observer
   D. the halo effect

8. Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the _______________?

   A. innate capability index
   B. innate surface structure ability
   C. prosody index
   D. language acquisition device

9. The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?

   A. concentrated attending
   B. stimulus focusing
   C. selective attention
   D. structured perceiving

10. The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?

    A. shaping
    B. acquisition
    C. discrimination
    D. generalization