Which of the following statements are correct?

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1. Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?

   A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
   B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
   C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
   D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities

2. Which of the following statements are correct?

   A. Inferiority complex is a form of self-criticism usually involving fear of social disapproval.
   B. The forebrain is assumed to be the seat of intelligence
   C. The forebrain structures control affective and cognitive behaviour
   D. All of the above

3. Stress may not always be ‘out there’ but mostly originate within individual. Which one of the following is the correct answer to justify the statements?

   A. Stress involves individual’s psychological make-up
   B. Stress is dependent on the intensity of the stressor
   C. Stress is related to simultaneous life-events
   D. Stress involves the individual’s cognitive appraisal

4. Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
   1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
   2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
   3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
   4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.

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

5. Which of the following statements about interpretation of language is correct?

   A. There is one principle class of phenomena that requires more than literal meaning
   B. In understanding metaphor the processor first has to parse sentences than has to determine their significance too
   C. The meaning of “Could you close the door?” can be established on the basis of semantics alone
   D. Both a & b

6. With respect to anagram problems, which of the following statements are correct?

   A. The simplest strategy is blind search, in which you just move to letters around blindly until a phrase appears
   B. Constraining the search space will help to speed up the problem-solving process
   C. All the problems can be construed in terms of search spaces
   D. All of the above

7. Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
   1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
   2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
   3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
   4:None of the above

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

8. Deciding which method to choose is very complex issue and depends on many factors which of the following statements is correct when making this decisions?

   A. Practical issues are irrelevant when deciding which research method use
   B. No one method is universally superior to any other.
   C. Both a and b
   D. Neither a nor b

9. 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

10. Consider the following statements: Moral understanding in a child of 5 years of age is limited because of their:

    A. cognitive immaturity
    B. belief in immanent justice
    C. belief in absolution of moral perspective
    D. All of the above