Practice Multiple Choice Questions:
Psychology is a construct of three different unique, but interconnecting
aspects. Can you name those three components?
a. Social, Behavior, Affect
b. Affect, Musical, Personality
c. Behavior, Cognition, Affect
d. Affect, Family Processes, Health
e. None of these
Robert is a Psychology undergraduate student at the University of Maryland
College Park. He is interested in working on a one-to-one basis with those
with substance use disorders. He wants to help them regain control over
responsibilities and activities of daily living that may have been lost due to
substance use, such as exercising, taking care of children, etc. What field of
psychology should he pursue?
a. Clinical
b. Social
c. Industrial-Organizational
d. Counseling
e. Developmental
Sam and a group of his classmates want to determine if increasing ones’
time spent exercising will increase the amount of fat they can burn off.
What would be an appropriate way to operationalize the amount of exercise
that the participant engages in?
a. Record the number of minutes spent running on the treadmill
at the same speed.
b. Ask the participant how many minutes they spent on the treadmill.
c. Record the speed at which they run the treadmill on.
d. Record the number of minutes running on the treadmill at the
different speeds.
e. Record the number of steps they took while running on the treadmill.
What is an example of metacognition?
a. Billy observes how Johnny writes an essay for his English class, as he
wants to be a better, more efficient writer.
b. After taking a math exam, Billy thinks about how he
approached he problem, such as the length of time for each
question spent, what equations he thought of using, etc.
c. Billy writes down everything he did today in a notebook, as he wants
to remember it in the future.
, d. Billy gets really scared after watching a scary movie and almost cries.
Which statement best explains the humanistic approach to psychology?
a. An approach of psychology which states that human behavior is
shaped by the environment and through learning.
b. An approach of psychology that emphasizes on human growth,
achievement and reaching to ones’ full potential.
c. An approach of psychology that supports cognitive processes at large
for human behavior.
d. An approach of psychology that supports the idea that corporations
and marketing schemes are at large for influencing human behavior.
e. An approach of psychology that supports family members at large for
influencing human behavior.
Billy performed an experiment in which he recorded the number of times a
frog caught a fly, based on the time of day (morning, noon, afternoon,
night). His results determined that the frog was able to catch the fly at a
greater rate during the morning hours of the day. It was later determined
to be false, with one reason being that he set his alpha value too high
(higher than the conventional 0.05 or 5%). What type of error could Billy
have made and what’s the result?
a. Billy made a Type II error. He incorrectly accepted the null
hypothesis that the number of flies caught is not dependent on the
time of day
b. Billy made a Type I error. He incorrectly rejected the null
hypothesis that the number of flies caught is not dependent on
the time of day.
c. Billy made a Type II error. He incorrectly rejected the null hypothesis
that the number of flies caught is not dependent on the time of day.
d. Billy made a Type I error. He incorrectly rejected the null hypothesis
that the number of files caught is dependent on the time of day
A study was performed, and it was determined that adults between 18 to 24
showed the highest prevalence of suicidal ideation, compared to other age
groups. These findings were again determined in future studies; however, it
only applies to white males aged 18 to 24 in the United States. We would
say that this study presents _______ while it lacks ________ .
a. Low internal validity; low external validity
b. High internal validity; high external validity
c. High internal validity; low external validity
d. Low internal validity; high external validity
Psychology is a construct of three different unique, but interconnecting
aspects. Can you name those three components?
a. Social, Behavior, Affect
b. Affect, Musical, Personality
c. Behavior, Cognition, Affect
d. Affect, Family Processes, Health
e. None of these
Robert is a Psychology undergraduate student at the University of Maryland
College Park. He is interested in working on a one-to-one basis with those
with substance use disorders. He wants to help them regain control over
responsibilities and activities of daily living that may have been lost due to
substance use, such as exercising, taking care of children, etc. What field of
psychology should he pursue?
a. Clinical
b. Social
c. Industrial-Organizational
d. Counseling
e. Developmental
Sam and a group of his classmates want to determine if increasing ones’
time spent exercising will increase the amount of fat they can burn off.
What would be an appropriate way to operationalize the amount of exercise
that the participant engages in?
a. Record the number of minutes spent running on the treadmill
at the same speed.
b. Ask the participant how many minutes they spent on the treadmill.
c. Record the speed at which they run the treadmill on.
d. Record the number of minutes running on the treadmill at the
different speeds.
e. Record the number of steps they took while running on the treadmill.
What is an example of metacognition?
a. Billy observes how Johnny writes an essay for his English class, as he
wants to be a better, more efficient writer.
b. After taking a math exam, Billy thinks about how he
approached he problem, such as the length of time for each
question spent, what equations he thought of using, etc.
c. Billy writes down everything he did today in a notebook, as he wants
to remember it in the future.
, d. Billy gets really scared after watching a scary movie and almost cries.
Which statement best explains the humanistic approach to psychology?
a. An approach of psychology which states that human behavior is
shaped by the environment and through learning.
b. An approach of psychology that emphasizes on human growth,
achievement and reaching to ones’ full potential.
c. An approach of psychology that supports cognitive processes at large
for human behavior.
d. An approach of psychology that supports the idea that corporations
and marketing schemes are at large for influencing human behavior.
e. An approach of psychology that supports family members at large for
influencing human behavior.
Billy performed an experiment in which he recorded the number of times a
frog caught a fly, based on the time of day (morning, noon, afternoon,
night). His results determined that the frog was able to catch the fly at a
greater rate during the morning hours of the day. It was later determined
to be false, with one reason being that he set his alpha value too high
(higher than the conventional 0.05 or 5%). What type of error could Billy
have made and what’s the result?
a. Billy made a Type II error. He incorrectly accepted the null
hypothesis that the number of flies caught is not dependent on the
time of day
b. Billy made a Type I error. He incorrectly rejected the null
hypothesis that the number of flies caught is not dependent on
the time of day.
c. Billy made a Type II error. He incorrectly rejected the null hypothesis
that the number of flies caught is not dependent on the time of day.
d. Billy made a Type I error. He incorrectly rejected the null hypothesis
that the number of files caught is dependent on the time of day
A study was performed, and it was determined that adults between 18 to 24
showed the highest prevalence of suicidal ideation, compared to other age
groups. These findings were again determined in future studies; however, it
only applies to white males aged 18 to 24 in the United States. We would
say that this study presents _______ while it lacks ________ .
a. Low internal validity; low external validity
b. High internal validity; high external validity
c. High internal validity; low external validity
d. Low internal validity; high external validity
