A. Social support in a broad social network impacts positively on health and stress
B. Social support in small groups helps one resist pressures to comply with an outside majority or to be obey an immoral authority
C. Both a & b
D. Neither a nor b
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Leyton suggested that members are symbolic of structural discontent – at different times in history a (social) class comes under treat from another (social) class under treat from another social class and feel dissatisfaction. What did he call this?
A. Depressive
B. Over- controlled repressors
C. Paranoid- aggression
D. Homicidal protest - 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 - Despite huge legal costs and social disapproval, Mr. Lambers refuses to pay Income taxes because his conscience will not allow him to support a government that spends billion of dollars on military weapons. Mr. Lambers’ reasoning best illustrate Kohiberg’s______stage.
A. concrete operational
B. preconventional
C. conventional
D. postconventional - 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 - With respect problem-solving which of the following statements is true?
A. Being numerate calls for a standard application of arithmetic procedures drawn from memory
B. Creative problem-solving can also be done according to formula
C. Even if we experience the same problem type over and over again creative problem-solving never become routine
D. None of the above - Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 1 & 3 - Which of the following statements are true? 1. On a vernier acuity task, humans can discern the direction of very tiny offsets, but performance deteriorates with practice. 2. Different types of visual search have different behavioural characteristics and depend on different brain regions. 3. Walsh et.al. (1998) suggest that the right parietal lobe may be involved in setting up new templates in the conjunctions of, say, colour and form. 4 All of the above.
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
D. 4 - Which of the following statements is NOT true in terms of the repairing damaged brains?
A. Adult neurons can sometimes from new connections
B. If one input to a target area is lost, the remaining inputs sometimes send out new branches from their axons to colonize the vacant space
C. Although transplanted neurons taken from a brain at the right stage of development will grow in an adult host brain, they will not restore normal function
D. Transplants of dopamine cell bodies alleviate some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in human patients - Which of the following statements about the sex drive is TRUE?
A. The sex drive in females is closely tied to the menstrual cycle
B. The sex drive in humans is completely liberated from the influence of hormones
C. The sex drive in humans can be aroused at virtually any time by almost anything
D. Recent sexual activity prevents sexual desire from occurring again after a certain amount of time
