The extent to which people believe that they can bring about an outcome is referred to as________.

Related Mcqs:

1. A much – feared outcome of Alzheimer’s disease is:

   A. functional psychosis
   B. paranoia
   C. general paresis
   D. senile dementia

2. Patients’ negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain. This best illustrate the importance of:

   A. transduction
   B. difference thresholds
   C. sensory adaption
   D. top-down processing

3. A variable such as the personality of a subject, that might affect he outcome of and experiment would be controlled by:

   A. random assignment of subjects
   B. assuming the effects of the variable are negligible
   C. manipulating the dependent variables simultaneously
   D. repeating the experiment several times until the results are consistent

4. Experimental groups, treatment groups and control group represent ways to________________ outcome variables.

   A. Manipulate
   B. Correlate
   C. Attract
   D. Validate

5. Fritz Heider postulated that the outcome of your behavior can be attributed to situational factors or________factors.

   A. Environmental
   B. Personality
   C. Cognitive
   D. Dispositional

6. When Professor ljaz nervously began teaching a university class for the first time, he overestimated the extent to which his student would notice that he was anxious. His reaction best illustrates:

   A. reciprocal determinism
   B. self-serving bias
   C. the spotlight effect
   D. an Electra complex

7. Which of the following in conjunction with somatropin bring growth and act directly on brain cells causing them to differentiate?

   A. Thyroxine
   B. Tri-iodothyronine (T3)
   C. Calcitonin
   D. Both a & b

8. Maham forgot to bring a pillow on the camping trip, so she spent a very uncomfortable and restless night. Unfortunately, she never thought of using her down-filed jacket as a pillow. Maham’s oversight best illustrates:

   A. functional fixedness
   B. confirmation bias
   C. overconfidence
   D. the availability heuristic

9. Theoretically, all of education is aimed at helping learners develop to the full extent of their ability those attitudes that fit them for living constructively in a______society:

   A. Different
   B. Autocratic
   C. Democratic
   D. Muslim

10. The drunken driving suspect was unable to hold his hand out to the side and bring this finger to a stop on his nose because of the brain structures depressed first by alcohol is the:

    A. hypothalamus
    B. corpus callosum
    C. cerebellum
    D. medulla