A. people achieving via merit
B. people achieving via accident of birth
C. people achieving because of who they know
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Natasha claimed that her failure to get “A’s” in all her college courses meant she was incompetent. Her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting, “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of all college students are incompetent!” The therapist’s response was most typical of a(n)______therapist.
A. eclectic
B. psychoanalytic
C. cognitive
D. behavior - Because she is often rejected by her parents, Sally mistrusts other people and treats them with hostility, which leads to their rejection of her. The cycle of rejection, mistrust, hostility, and further rejection illustrate what is meant by:
A. an external locus of control
B. the self-serving phenomenon
C. reaction formation
D. reciprocal determinism - The area of the brain where short-term memories are transferred to long-term memory is the _________________?
A. medulla
B. hippocampus
C. pons
D. hypothalamus - The process that controls the movement of information from the short-term store into the long-term store is __________________?
A. retrieval
B. attention
C. encoding
D. recall - What is the term for a structured form of short – term psychotherapy in which the goal is to change the negative, inaccurate ways of thinking associated with depression or bipolar disorder?
A. Transactional theory
B. Cognitive therapy
C. EMDR
D. Somatic trauma therapy - Long-term potentiation and long-term depression are processes demonstrating that:
A. Experience can modify a neuron’s responses
B. Experience can modify a person’s potential
C. Experience can modify a person’s mental health
D. Experience cannot modify a neuron’s responses - A term use by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle, independent of their class positions is called_________?
A. Social change
B. Status group
C. Vertical mobility
D. None of these - Bashir explains his failing grade on a term paper by saying that her really didn’t work very hard at it. According to Weiner’s model Bashir is making an______attribution about his failure.
A. internal- stable
B. internal- unstable
C. external- stable
D. external- unstable - Who developed the term ‘role- set’?
A. Max Weber
B. Karl Marx
C. T. Parsons and R. Merton
D. R. Linton - The term ‘role- conflict’ refers to which one of the following situations?
A. Two individual with conflicting interests try to work together
B. An individual faces two or more conflicting expectations
C. Two individuals with differing specializations try to do a similar kind of work
D. None of the above
