The Hawthorne studies were used to examine the effects of:

Related Mcqs:

1. The Hawthorne studies were used to examine the effects of:

   A. Revery obsession
   B. Mass group testing
   C. Manipulating workplace lighting
   D. Time and motion

2. Research studies that examine people’s responses on the Watson Selection test, the military problem puzzle and speak-aloud protocols have demonstrated that reasoning about problems is strongly influenced by:

   A. Logic
   B. Detection of the problem
   C. Conditional of the problem
   D. Heuristics
   E. Representation of the problem

3. Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 3 & 4
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

4. Dolphins have been observed to pause by a mirror to examine ink marks placed on their bodies. This best illustrates their capacity for:

   A. self-recognition
   B. transmitting cultural innovations
   C. generating category hierarchies
   D. linguistic determinism

5. When we measure the effectiveness of therapy compared to a baseline we examine the:

   A. Therapeutic indicator
   B. Placebo effect
   C. Spontaneous-remission effect
   D. Meta-analysis factor

6. After learning the combination for his new CNIC No. Mehboob is unable to remember the combination for his National Tax Number. Mehboob is experiencing the effects of ____________________?

   A. encoding failure
   B. state-dependent memory
   C. retroactive interference
   D. proactive interference

7. The prescription drug Thorazine used to treat persons with schizophrenia may cause side effects, one of them called tardive dyskinesia. What might a person suffering from this side effect display?

   A. involuntary movements of tongue and face
   B. no movement at all
   C. slow movements
   D. clapping of the hands repeatedly

8. In a study of effects of alcohol on driving ability, the control group should be given:

   A. a high dosage of alcohol
   B. one-half the dosage given the experimental group
   C. a driving test before and after drinking alcohol
   D. no alcohol at all

9. A friend states that since he has been taking vitamin C, he has not had a single cold. His observation has little value in assessing the effects of vitamin C because:

   A. there was no control group for comparison
   B. he has not calculated a correlation coefficient
   C. of the effect of the observer on the observed
   D. he does not specify his dosage of vitamin

10. A hormone produced from the duodenum that effects the pancreas to produce and release pancreatic juice is:

    A. Oxytocin
    B. Gastrin
    C. secretin
    D. Pancreatin