A. Ethical philosophy
B. Appetite and aversion
C. Natural philosophy
D. God and the devil
Related Mcqs:
- Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the acquisition of a response; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the_______of a response.
A. acquisition
B. development
C. performance
D. generalization - “Human beings respond to their subjective cognitions about their world rather than to the objective environment” is an argument for the effectiveness of ___________?
A. Primal therapy
B. Freudian therapy
C. Cognitive therapy
D. Rankian therapy - Social position in a group determines one’s _________?
A. competence
B. auto kinetic norms
C. role
D. usefulness - A researcher determines that the crime rate in a large city fluctuates with the phases of the moon. He concludes that the gravitational pull of the moon influences human behavior. He has committed what error?
A. He incorrectly inferred correlation from causation
B. He incorrectly inferred causation from correlation
C. He failed to measure the gravitational pull to test his hypothesis
D. He has overlooked the placebo effect - A correlational study is one that determines:
A. the relationship between the independent and the dependent variables
B. the effects of the observer on the observed
C. cause-effect relationships
D. the relationship between two events - The 23rd chromosome determines the sex of the child. A male pattern is:
A. XYX
B. XXX
C. XX
D. XY - What factor determines the sexual behavior of most species?
A. Emotions
B. Availability
C. Hormones
D. Thinking - The phrase “a theory must also falsifiable” means:
A. researchers misrepresent their data
B. a theory must be defined so it can be disconfirmed
C. theories are a rich array of observations regarding behavior but with few facts to support them
D. nothing - Who developed the theory of drive reduction?
A. Carl Rogers
B. Ivan Pavlov
C. Clark Hull
D. Jean Piaget - Who has suggested that ‘social control can be introduced through exploitative and constructive methods’:
A. Ross
B. Hunt
C. Maclver
D. Bernard