The technique and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. A label used to devalue members of deviant groups is called_________?

   A. Social change
   B. Stigma
   C. Status group
   D. None of these

2. Which extensive longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?

   A. Aggression replacement training
   B. What Works program
   C. Statement validity assessment
   D. The Cambridge study

3. Briefly defined_______is to study of human behavior and human relationships:

   A. psychology
   B. Physical activity
   C. Humanity
   D. Research

4. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups is called:

   A. Ethnography
   B. Sociology
   C. Biology
   D. None of these

5. The study of the role of the specific areas of the nervous system in organizing and controlling behavior that is specifically human is called ___________?

   A. comparative psychology
   B. clinical psychology
   C. physiological psychology
   D. neuropsychology

6. The process by which members of a society are taught how behave and feel by influential members of that society is referred to as:

   A. Role ambiguity
   B. Socialization
   C. Hawthorne effect
   D. Social roles
   E. normative influence

7. In the technique of shaping behavior, which of the following is used?

   A. positive reinforcement
   B. neutral acknowledgment
   C. negative reinforcement
   D. differential reinforcement

8. According to L. H. Morgan, which technological invention took the human society from the barbarism to civilization?

   A. Invention of bow and arrow
   B. Invention of striking fire
   C. Invention of phonetic alphabet
   D. Invention of wheel

9. If psychology can be defined as the science of behavior and the mind, why are the data in psychology always drawn from behavior?

   A. behavior can be influenced by physiology and the mind cannot
   B. behavior can be influenced by the environment and the mind cannot
   C. behavior can be observed and the mind cannot
   D. All of above

10. Nami’s actions resemble movie stereotype of “crazy” behavior. Her personality disintegration is extreme. She engages in silly laughter, bizarre mannerisms, and obscene behavior. Her diagnosis is probably:

    A. paranoid schizophrenia
    B. borderline schizophrenia
    C. catatonic schizophrenia
    D. disorganized schizophrenia