What are the psychological effects of unemployment on individuals?

Related Mcqs:

1. What are the psychological effects of unemployment on individuals?

   A. Depression
   B. Negative self-esteem
   C. Anxiety
   D. All of the above

2. Which of the following statements regarding the psychological effects of unemployment is FALSE?

   A. The unemployed have poorer mental health than comparable groups of employed people
   B. The unemployed have poorer physical health than comparable groups of employed people
   C. The psychological effects of unemployment do not usually affect anyone apart from the unemployed person
   D. none of the above – all are correct

3. Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
   1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
   2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
   3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
   4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.

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

4. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
   1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
   2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
   3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
   4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

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

5. What are the two major approaches to treatment of psychological disorders?
   1: Biological.
   2: Medical.
   3: Chemical.
   4: Psychological

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

6. In a study of the effects of alcohol consumption, some participants drank a nonalcoholic beverage that actually smelled and tested like alcohol. This nonalcoholic drink was a ___________?

   A. replication
   B. placebo
   C. random sample
   D. double blind
   E. None of these

7. The Law of Effect is concerned with the effects of ______________________?

   A. hormones in behavior
   B. activity states on behavior
   C. internal drive states on behavior
   D. rewards and punishment on behavior

8. A student who has studied German in high school, takes a course in French in college and now has trouble remembering the German. This is an example of the effects of __________________?

   A. retroactive interference
   B. proactive interference
   C. state-dependent learning
   D. encoding specificity

9. A 3D movie enhances one’s sense of depth perception by simulating the effects of:

   A. Linear perspective
   B. Convergence
   C. Interposition
   D. Retinal disparity

10. An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:

    A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
    B. rote memory scores
    C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
    D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue