With respect problem-solving which of the following statements is true?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. Which psychological specialty is most directly concerned with the systematic study of problem solving, decision making and concept formation?

   A. developmental psychology
   B. social psychology
   C. clinical psychology
   D. cognitive psychology

4. Sally has trouble solving for X in her Algebra class. She can’t quite grasp the idea of:

   A. Abstract reasoning
   B. Conservation
   C. Egocentrism
   D. Reversibility

5. 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

6. 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

7. Which TWO of the following statements are true of simultaneous contrast illusions? 1. In the simultaneous tilt illusion, vertical stripes appear tilted away from the tilt of their surrounding stripes. 2. In the luminance illusion, a grey patch appears darker when surrounded by a dark area than when surrounded by a light area. 3 A purple patch appears slightly closer to blue when surrounded by red, and closer to red when seen against a blue background. 4. Visual illusion effect only exist for motion.

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

8. Which of the following statements is NOT true in relation to measure of dispersion?

   A. The range is the difference between the maximum and minimum data values
   B. The most commonly used measure of dispersion is standard deviation (SD)
   C. The standard deviation is equal to the square of the sum of the squares of all the differences (deviations) between each score and the mean, divided by the number of scores
   D. The square root of the standard deviation is called the variance

9. Which one of the following statements about social support is true?

   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

10. 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