John believes that the more students drink the more they are apt to be involved in dangerous sexual activity. Which goal of psychology is at work?
Predict
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Explain
Control
Describe
Category: Psychology MCQs
Which early school of psychology relied on introspection as a systematic way of gathering information?
Which early school of psychology relied on introspection as a systematic way of gathering information?
Structuralism
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Functionalism
Psychoanalysis
Gestalt
“Rather than rote learning, we believe in learning by doing.” This statement is reflective of which school of psychology?
“Rather than rote learning, we believe in learning by doing.” This statement is reflective of which school of psychology?
Functionalism
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Structuralism
Behaviorism
Gestalt
Which of the following early schools of psychology included emotions, self, will, values, and even religious and mystical experience?
Which of the following early schools of psychology included emotions, self, will, values, and even religious and mystical experience?
Functionalism
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Psychoanalysis
Gestalt
Structuralism
Who proposed competitor to Leon Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory?
Who proposed competitor to Leon Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory?
Daryl Bem
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Peter Burke
Robert Cialdini
Leon Festinger
One of the reasons to study psychology is
One of the reasons to study psychology is
to understand the human mind and how it works
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to learn how to manipulate others.
to completely understand and predict human behavior.
to have the answers to all of life’s questions.
Who created Identity control theory?
Who created Identity control theory?
Peter Burke
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Daryl Bem
Robert Cialdini
Leon Festinger
Which of the following is the best example of covert behavior?
Which of the following is the best example of covert behavior?
blinking in response to a light
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imitating a friend’s gesture
remembering a pleasant experience
rapid eye movements while sleeping
The goals of psychology are to
The goals of psychology are to
describe, predict, understand, and control behavior
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develop effective methods of psychotherapy.
explain the functioning of the human mind.
compare, analyze, and control human behavior.
Who is called the father of Experimental psychology?
Who is called the father of Experimental psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
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B.F. Skinner
G. Stanley Hall
John Watson