(A) Perception
(B) Sensation
(C) Selective attention
(D) Adaptation
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Most psychologists believe that aggression is:
(A) An innate biological response to frustration
(B) Linked to sexual drive
(C) A learned response
(D) A drive that builds up over time and must be released
The amount of association between two or more variable is:
(A) Correlation
(B) Naturalistic observation
(C) Reliability
(D) None of these
Gestalt theory emphasized:
(A) A flow of consciousness
(B) The atoms of thought
(C) Environmental stimuli
(D) Our tendency to see patterns
__ Psychologists work to improve efficiency of people in business.
(A) Cognitive
(B) Developmental
(C) Industrial/organizational
(D) Physiological
Psychology is the science of:
(A) Behavior & mental processes
(B) Objective introspection
(C) Inductive reasoning
(D) Emotions
Which of the following learning mechanism dopes B.F. Skinner see as being the major means by which behavior is learned?
(A) Classical conditioning
(B) Operant conditioning
(C) Observational learning
(D) None of these
Stereotypes are:
(A) Special types of schemas that are part of people’s shared cultural background
(B) Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group.
(C) both (a) &
(D) none of these