A. They have used telepathy to read the mind of the criminal
B. They have provided useful predictions using all their powers in 90 percent of the cases
C. They have used precognition to forewarn the police of criminals acts
D. They have reported visions that are no more accurate than guesses
Related Mcqs:
- The brain can solve immensely difficult computational problems and thus allow us to function in our environments by relying on which type of processing?
A. Parallel and visual processing of incoming information
B. Independent and neuronal processing of incoming information
C. Parallel and visual processing of outgoing information
D. Parallel and modular processing of incoming information - Victim surveys generally indicate______ rate of victimization than do number of crimes known to the police.
A. lower
B. higher
C. inferior
D. similar - Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 4
D. 2 & 3 - The percentage of people who report being a victim of particular sort of crime in the previous year is known as the_____rate, as it opposed to the frequency of crimes being committed in one year which is known as______rates.
A. prevalence; prevalence
B. victim; criminal
C. incidence; prevalence
D. prevalence; incidence - The application of psychological theories, methods and techniques to solve practical human problems describes an area of psychology known as ____________?
A. Social psychology
B. Para-psychology
C. Applied psychology
D. Humanistic psychology - Remembering how to solve a jigsaw puzzle without any conscious recollection that one can do so best illustrates ________________ memory?
A. explicit
B. flashbulb
C. sensory
D. implicit - The result of carefully controlled observations of clever Hans and his ability to solve math problems showed:
A. he could do math
B. he could add. but he could not subtract
C. he was cued by the owner looking up or down
D. none of these could be determined by observation - To solve the “string problem” described in the text, you have to catch the screwdriver while holding the second string. This_______problem is often solved in a burst of_______when a person overcomes_______.
A. arrangement; intuition; functional fixedness
B. arrangement; intuition; confirmation bias
C. transformation; intuition; mental set
D. arrangement; insight; functional fixedness - The Russian psychologist Vygotsky suggested their children’s ability to solve problems is enhanced by:
A. basic trust
B. egocentrism
C. imprinting
D. inner speech - Dr. Saleem conducts basic research on the relationship between adults’ language Skills and their capacity to solve mathematical problems. Dr. Saleem is most likely a(n)_______________ psychologist.
A. industrial / organizational
B. social
C. clinical
D. cognitive
