Psychology MCQs

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A psychologist expects that rats raised in toy-filled cages will become better learner. This expectation of him is ___________?
A. Research hypothesis
B. Observer expectancy effect
C. Independent variable
D. Inferential statistics
For which school of thought was psychology decidedly not the science of the mind?
A. Structuralism
B. Behaviorism
C. Gestalt psychology
D. Psychoanalysis
Social psychology is the study of __________?
A. How the behavior of individuals is influenced by others
B. How the behavior of groups is influenced by their cultural heritage
C. How the behavior of individuals in influenced by the their cultural heritage
D. All of the above
The dominant approach in psychology today is ____________?
A. Physiological psychology
B. Cognitive psychology
C. Ethnology
D. Behaviorism
The term ‘cognition’ means ___________?
A. Free will
B. Knowledge
C. Observation
D. Objectivity
___________were major figures in behaviorism ?
A. John b. watson and b.f. skinner
B. Jean piaget and john
B. Watson c. noam chomsky and jean piaget
D. B.f. skinner and noam chomsky
Jean Piaget, contributed generally to cognitive psychology through his accounts of ___________?
A. Animal behavior in the natural environment
B. Intellectual development in children
C. The mental rules underlying languages use
D. Information processing in computers