Psychology MCQs

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The perception of a relationship between two variables that does not actually exist is called ___________?
A. The hindsight bias
B. The false consensus effect
C. An illusion of control
D. Illusory correlation
The first school of psychology is ___________?
A. Structuralism
B. Behaviorism
C. Gestalt school
D. Functionalism
If psychology can be defined as the science of behavior and the mind, why are the data in psychology always drawn from behavior?
A. Behavior can be influenced by physiology and the mind cannot
B. Behavior can be influenced by the environment and the mind cannot
C. Behavior can be observed and the mind cannot
D. All of above
An experiment psychology lab was first established in 1879 by ____________?
A. Rene descartes
B. William james
C. Sigmund freud
D. None of the above
The specialist most likely to prescribe a drug for the treatment of psychological disorder is ___________?
A. Developmental psychologist
B. Clinical psychologist
C. Psychiatrist
D. Personality psychologist
One of the Darwin’s key ideas is that, because of natural selection, animals have an inborn tendency to behave in ways that ____________?
A. Require the lowest energy expenditure
B. They individually select from various natural alternative
C. They learn from their parents
D. Help them to survive and reproduce
One of the major goals of humanistic therapy is to aid the individual in developing ____________?
A. Stable family relations
B. Unconscious thought processes
C. Strong ego defenses
D. Positive self-concepts
Information-processing theorists belong to ____________?
A. Psychoanalysts
B. Behavioral psychologists
C. Cognitive psychologists
D. Functionalists