Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates: April 27, 2025 by admin A. functional fixedness B. the farming effect C. the representativeness heuristic D. over confidence
The chief antidote for test anxiety is: April 27, 2025 by admin A. over-perception B. thought suppression C. regression D. discussing the problem with your professor
Behaviorism helped make psychology a __________? April 27, 2025 by admin A. fad B. science C. specialty D. hoax
Of the following who was structuralist? April 27, 2025 by admin A. B.F. Skinner B. John Watson C. Wihelm wundt D. William James
Fred, a tennis coach, insists that he can make any reasonably healthy individual into and internationally competitive tennis player. Fred is echoing the thoughts of: ____________? April 27, 2025 by admin A. Sigmund Freud B. John, B watson C. Abraham Maslow D. Wiliam james
Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature? April 27, 2025 by admin A. humanism B. behaviorism C. psychoanalysis D. structuralism
The tendency to view one’s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is know as: _____________? April 27, 2025 by admin A. Behaviorism B. ethnocentrism C. humanism D. functionalism
Stimulus motives are: April 27, 2025 by admin A. needs that are learned, such as the needs for power or for achievement B. innate but not necessary for survival C. not innate but necessary for survival D. innate and necessary for survival
What do cognitive psychologists compare the mind to? April 27, 2025 by admin A. A keyboard B. A CD player C. A Computer D. A Television
The fact that psychologists do not all agree about the nature and development of personality demonstrates: April 27, 2025 by admin A. that there are many ways of looking at the same phenomenon B. the fundamental inability of psychologists to work together in developing a single theory. C. the failure of psychologists to communicate with one another. D. the possibility that personality may simply be incomprehensible.
