Psychology Answers

Multiple choice questions :

Which of the following is not by difinition a learned perceptual-motor skill ?

1 to pick up a glass

2 to dive from high diving-board

3 to get the rugby ball from the scrum and pass it to the fly-half

4 to cut a diamond to show off its beaty

Multiple choice questions :

In operant conditioning terms , reinforcement referes to the ...

1 tendency to respond to similar but not identical stimuli

2 unpleasent concequences of a response

3 process that occures when a pleasent or desirable reinforcer follows a response

4 reappearence of a response which seems to have been extinguished

Multiple choice questions :

What kind of learning is traditionally classified as learning by association

1 social learning

2 operant learning

3 cognitive learning

4 observation learning

In a paragraph discuss what is meant by democracy. Discuss both ancient and modern concept of democracy in your outline

Multiple choice questions :

What are the two important characteristics of a psychological test?

1 reliability and mental age

2 validity and reliability

3 intelligence and validity

4 creativity and intelligence

Multiple choice questions :

According to Gardner's theory , performance is intellectual task is determined by ...

1 a general intellectual ability

2 unique specific abilities

3 multiple intelligence

4 contextual intelligence

Multiple choice questions :

Which of the following statements is possible explanation for the finding that highly creative people often do not perform well on traditional tests of intelligence?

1 creativity and intelligence are unrelated abilities

2 creative people are convergent thinkers

3 performance on intelligence tests relies on convergent thinking

4 creative people do not have above average intelligence

Multiple choice questions :

Mmabatho's mother asks why her daughter is having difficulties at school while her step-sister , who lives in the same house , does not. Based on this scenario , you explain to Mmabatho's mother that children who have ... are less likely to obtain similar scores on an intelligence test.

1 the same genetic composition and are raised in similar environments

2 different genetic composition and are raised in the same environments

3 the same genetic composition and are raised in different environments

4 different genetic composition and are raised in different environments

Multiple Question

The notion that people should not waste and consume more than they need to satisfy their basic needs I part of the...1 Sense of personal responsibility, 2. protestant work ethic, 3. post-industrial work ethnic, 4. external locus control of an individual