A. clinical psychology
B. personality psychology
C. industrial/organizational psychology
D. psychiatry
Related Mcqs:
- Lauren and Curtis spend six hours per week studying for the botany course. Lauren is concerned that if she doesn’t study she will fail the course; Curtis is concerned that if he doesn’t study he won’t earn the highest grade in the class. In this example:
A. Lauren is motivated by both a fear of failure and a need for achievement, while Curtis is merely motivated by a need for achievement
B. Lauren is motivated by a fear of failure and Curtis is motivated by a need for achievement
C. both students are motivated by a need for achievement
D. both students are motivated by a fear of failure - In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?
A. factorial design
B. within subjects design
C. between subjects design
D. quasi-experimental design - According to research, which of the following individuals would be least likely to engage in workplace violence?
A. A male who has a history of violence
B. An individual with high self- esteem who received negative feedback recently
C. A person who has a history of conflicts with co- workers
D. A female who recently received increased job responsibilities - All of the following studies examined productivity in the workplace except:
A. Time and motion
B. Revery obsession
C. Hawthorne studies
D. Stanford- Binet - All of the following are circumstances of today’s workplace that seem to require adaptive performance except:
A. Reliance on the status quo
B. Globalization
C. Changing technologies
D. Corporate restricting - Which profession is most directly involved in the application of psychology’s principles to the workplace?
A. social psychology
B. development psychology
C. industrial-organizational psychology
D. personality psychology - The most common way of studying human cognitive processing is to evaluate ____________________?
A. semantic shifts
B. EEG readings
C. reaction time
D. rehearsal time - Briefly defined_______is to study of human behavior and human relationships:
A. psychology
B. Physical activity
C. Humanity
D. Research - Which perspective is most concerned with identifying the limits of human reasoning?
A. behavioral
B. cognitive
C. biological
D. social-cultural - Watson argued that all behavior is composed of reflexive responses to stimuli, but Skinner later argued that behavior is determined ____________?
A. patterns
B. consequences of responses
C. predictability of responses
D. strength of responses
