Theories explain results, predict future outcomes and:

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
   1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
   2. Theories are statements of what rather than why
   3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations
   4. All of the above

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

2. When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?

   A. Hindsight bias
   B. Intuition
   C. Availability heuristic
   D. Conditional reasoning

3. Mr. Walters has many years of experience as a personal officers for a large corporation. He does not review most job applicants’ reference files because he is confident of his ability to predict their future work performance based on his direct face-to-face conversations with them. Mr. Walters’ confidence best illustrates:

   A. the interviewer illusion
   B. social leadership
   C. 360-degree feedback
   D. the halo error

4. Learning theories explain attachment of infants to their parents in items of__________?

   A. Conditioning
   B. Observational learning
   C. The maturation of perceptual skills
   D. Cognitive development

5. At which age can children accurately predict the gender of a person steretypically based on the attributes associated with particular activities?

   A. One year of age
   B. Six years of age
   C. Ten years of age
   D. Two years of age

6. Which theory of social change would predict that all societies eventually experience the same kinds of social changes?

   A. functionalist
   B. conflict
   C. unilateral evolutionary
   D. evolutionary

7. Waqas looked directly into a very bright light and damaged his retina. The ophthalmologist has told him that he has sustained massive damage to his rods but for the most part his cones have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Waqas’ vision is that he will now have:

   A. more accurate depth perception
   B. poor vision in bright illumination
   C. poor vision in low illumination
   D. poor peripheral vision

8. Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have:

   A. Poor vision in bright light
   B. No color vision
   C. Poor vision in low illumination
   D. More accurate depth perception

9. If a 100-Hz tone had to be increased to 110 Hz for a subject to just notice the difference, you would predict that a 1000-Hz tone would have to be increased to:

   A. 1250 to be noticed
   B. 1200 to be noticed
   C. 1010 to be noticed
   D. 1100 to be noticed

10. Which dimension of personality can predict individual preferences for study areas, number of study breaks and performance on long vigilance tasks?

    A. External-internal
    B. Experimenting-conservative
    C. Neuroticism-stability
    D. Extraversion-introversion