A. all are pseudo-psychology’s
B. none is subject to the P.T Barnum effect
C. they rarely appear to “work” due to the fallacy of positive instances
D. astrology is the only system with a scientific basis
Related Mcqs:
- The biological and behavioral perspectives are most likely to differ with respect to the issue of ____________?
A. nature versus nature
B. rationality versus irrationality
C. observation versus introspection
D. basic versus applied research - 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 - 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 - “The technique reduces people to puppets controlled by therapists! It doesn’t respect human freedom. “This criticism is most likely to be directed at:
A. systematic desensitization
B. psychoanalysis
C. EMDR
D. a token economy - Which of the following is NOT the case with respect to a primate’s secondary cortical taste area?
A. It is also known as the orbitofrontal cortex
B. There is no modulation of taste-responses in the secondary region of the brain
C. As satiety develops, neuronal activity in the secondary taste cortex appears to make food less acceptable and less pleasant
D. Electrical stimulation in the secondary taste cortex produces reward - Subjects are said to be assigned randomly when:
A. they are assigned to experimental and control group from a sample which is representative of the larger population
B. they each have an equal chance of being assigned to either the experimental or control group
C. they are assigned to experimental and control group so that the group differ on some critical variable before the experiment begins
D. neither the experimenter nor the subject knows whether the subject is in the experimental or control group - Two variables may be said to be causally related if:
A. they show a strong positive correlation
B. all extraneous variables are controlled and the independent variable creates consistent differences in behavior of the experimental group
C. they are observed to co-vary on many separate occasions
D. they have been observed in a laboratory setting - If both depressed and non-depressed individuals received similar scores on a diagnostic test for depression, it is said that the test ______________________?
A. has not been standardized
B. is not valid
C. is not reliable
D. has not been factor analyzed - Who said this? “Comparative sociology is not a particular branch of sociology, it is sociology itself, in- so- far as it ceases to be purely descriptive and aspires to account for facts.”
A. Hegel
B. K. Marx
C. M. Weber
D. E. Durkheim - Who said “aggression is the most prominent in one well-known view, frustration is necessary and sufficient condition for all aggression”.
A. Maslow
B. Miller
C. Lewin
D. None of these
