When Armen first head the hit song “Gotta Love It” he wasn’t at all sure he liked it. The more often he heard it played, however, the more he enjoyed it. Armen’s reaction illustrates:

Related Mcqs:

1. Nolan used to love tequila. However, a few weeks ago he drank way too much tequila and became very, very sick. His tendency to drink tequila has since declined dramatically. In operant terms, this sequence of events represents:

   A. generalization
   B. negative reinforcement
   C. higher-order conditioning
   D. punishment

2. A researcher has children watch 30 minutes of violent television, and then counts the number of times they hit each other afterward in a one-hour play period as a measure of aggression. The researcher causes aggression, however this conclusion may be invalid because:

   A. all children are prone to aggressive behavior
   B. it is unethical to force children to watch violent television
   C. there was no control group
   D. aggression wasn’t operationally defined

3. The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:

   A. Feature detection.
   B. Bottom-up processing
   C. Pre-attentive processing
   D. The phi phenomenon

4. Athletes often attribute their losses to bad officiating. This best illustrates:

   A. learned helplessness
   B. the spotlight effect
   C. self-serving bias
   D. an Electra complex

5. Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:

   A. functional fixedness
   B. the framing effect
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. overconfidence

6. Because Ken is 6 6, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college’s basketball team. The mistaken judgement best illustrates the impact of:

   A. the availability heuristic
   B. confirmation bias
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. the belief perseverance phenomenon

7. The corrupt behavior of many ordinary people who served as Nazi concentration camp guards best illustrates that immorality often results from:

   A. crystallized intelligence
   B. social influence
   C. abnormal cognitive development
   D. postconventional moral thinking

8. Carlos is so friendly and likable that is job supervisors and co-workers often appraise his work skills and performance more positively than is actually warranted. This best illustrates evaluators’ vulnerability to:

   A. halo errors
   B. the experience of flow
   C. homeostasis
   D. homeostasis

9. Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:

   A. functional fixedness
   B. the farming effect
   C. the representativeness heuristic
   D. over confidence

10. When Professor ljaz nervously began teaching a university class for the first time, he overestimated the extent to which his student would notice that he was anxious. His reaction best illustrates:

    A. reciprocal determinism
    B. self-serving bias
    C. the spotlight effect
    D. an Electra complex