🧠Psychology MCQs
Psychology MCQs
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In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers’ predictions, psychologists sometimes:
Atreat information about individual participants confidentially
Bdeceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment
Callow subjects to pick whether they are in the experimental or control group
Dallow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment
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In order to determine whether the strength of people’s self-esteem related to their income levels, researchers would most likely make use of:
Acorrelational research
Bcase studies
Cexperimentation
Da double-blind procedure
313
The precision with which a sample average approximates a population average increases as:
Athe range of the sample increases
Bthe standard deviation of the sample increases
Cthe man of the sample increases
Dthe standard deviation of the sample decreases
314
Professor Saxton was skeptical about the accuracy of recently reported research on sleep deprivation. Which process would best enable her to assess the reliability of these findings?
Athe case study
Bnaturalistic observation
Crandom sampling
Dreplication
315
The ability to infer a cause-and-effect relationship is associated only with the:
Aexperimental research method
Bcase history research method
Ccorrelational research method
Dnaturalistic research method
316
___________________________of the approach point to objectivity, precise thinking and logical development leading to generalisable conclusions. it is an analytical piece-by-piece collection of information:
AAdvocates
BDecision makers
CIndividuals
DResearchers
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Conceptual enquiry is based upon the idea of_________ being value-free and not biased politically:
AEvaluation
BAwareness
CArt
DScience
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According to Sigmund Freud, an individual’s personality is largely determined by:
Athe id and the superego
Bself-actualizing tendencies
Cforces in the unconscious
Dforces in the environment
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The experimental procedure in which both the experimenter and subject are unaware of who is in the experimental and who is in the control group is referred to as the:
Asingle-blind procedure
Bthe type of experiment is not possible
Cstereotaxic procedure
Ddouble-blind procedure
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_________________of the approach suggest that it is impersonal, based upon these the researcher want to ask, and smacks of fertilizing seeds (learners) and comparing growth:
AResearchers
BObservers
CCritics
DDecision-makers