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1881. A receptor may be a:
- A. Cell
- B. Neuron ending
- C. Receptor organ
- D. All of the above
Explanation: A receptor is a stimulus-detecting structure and may be a specialized cell, a neuron ending, or an entire receptor organ such as the eye…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Receptors
- B. Effectors
- C. Motor neurons
- D. Glands and MusclesEnroll In Courses
Explanation: Receptors detect stimuli and convert them into neural signals, whereas effectors such as muscles and glands carry out responses.
Correct answer: Receptors- A. Photoreceptors
- B. Mechanoreceptors
- C. Chemoreceptors
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Chemoreceptors respond to chemical changes, including odor molecules, taste substances and carbon dioxide levels in the blood.
Correct answer: Chemoreceptors- A. Photoreceptors
- B. Mechanoreceptors
- C. Chemoreceptors
- D. Thermoreceptors
Explanation: Mechanoreceptors detect mechanical forces such as touch, pressure, sound vibrations and changes involved in equilibrium.
Correct answer: Mechanoreceptors- A. external locus of control
- B. projection
- C. optimism
- D. the Barnum effect
Explanation: Positive psychology studies strengths and conditions that help people flourish, including optimism, happiness, resilience, and meaning.
Correct answer: optimism- A. Lightner Witmer
- B. G. Stanley hall
- C. Wilhelm Wundt
- D. William James
Explanation: G. Stanley Hall organized and became the first president of the American Psychological Association, founded in 1892.
Correct answer: G. Stanley hall- A. Rorschach inkblot test
- B. Thematic appreciation
- C. Dap
- D. Stanford Binet v
Explanation: The Stanford-Binet is a widely used standardized intelligence test and is the only intelligence measure listed.
Correct answer: Stanford Binet v- A. WAIS-IV
- B. WISC-V
- C. WIAT-III
- D. WPPSI-IV
Explanation: The WIAT-III measures academic achievement rather than general intellectual ability.
Correct answer: WIAT-III- A. From age 25+
- B. The entire lifespan (ages 2-85+)
- C. From age 2-50 years
- D. Academic
Explanation: The modern Stanford-Binet covers nearly the entire lifespan, beginning around age 2 and extending to adults aged 85 and older.
Correct answer: The entire lifespan (ages 2-85+)- A. Weak validity
- B. May facilitate rapport
- C. Questions that are predetermined
- D. Questions that are not predetermined
Explanation: A structured interview uses a fixed set of questions decided before the interview, usually asked in the same order.
Correct answer: Questions that are predetermined- A. Four
- B. Four or five
- C. Exactly five
- D. Exactly three
Explanation: The Stanford-Binet Fifth Edition provides five factor index scores: Fluid Reasoning, Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual-Spatial…
Correct answer: Exactly five- A. Clinical intervention
- B. Clinical testing
- C. Diagnosis
- D. Pragmatics of clinical interview
Explanation: The pragmatics of a clinical interview concern its practical arrangements, including recording methods, note-taking, room setup, and…
Correct answer: Pragmatics of clinical interview- A. Diagnostic interview
- B. Rapport building in clinical interview
- C. Types of clinical interview
- D. Testing
Explanation: Rapport building depends on communicating respect and care through body language, eye contact, vocal qualities, and accurate verbal…
Correct answer: Rapport building in clinical interview- A. the placebo effect
- B. an extraneous variable
- C. variability
- D. psychosomatic illness
Explanation: The placebo effect occurs when a person shows a response because they expect a treatment to work, even though the substance has no active…
Correct answer: the placebo effect- A. the most reliable
- B. often contradicted by empirical evidence
- C. the basis for most psychological theories
- D. the basis for collecting data (observed facts)
Explanation: Common sense can seem convincing but is often contradicted by systematic psychological research because intuition is vulnerable to bias…
Correct answer: often contradicted by empirical evidence- A. applied
- B. commonsense
- C. pseudo
- D. forensic
Explanation: Pseudo-psychology presents unsupported practices, such as palm reading, as if they could reveal reliable psychological or personal…
Correct answer: pseudo- A. all are pseudo-psychology's
- B. none is subject to the P.T Barnum effect
- C. they rarely appear to "work" due to the fallacy of positive instances
- D. astrology is the only system with a scientific basis
Explanation: Astrology, palmistry and phrenology are classified as pseudopsychologies because their claims lack reliable scientific support.
Correct answer: all are pseudo-psychology's- A. read their handwriting
- B. examine their skulls
- C. study their palms
- D. record their EEGs
Explanation: Phrenology claims that mental abilities can be inferred from the shape and bumps of the skull, so a phrenologist would examine the…
Correct answer: examine their skulls- A. R.W. Fogel, and S.L. Engerman
- B. Sydeny E. Ahlstrom
- C. Max Weber
- D. None of these
Explanation: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery was written by economic historians Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
Correct answer: R.W. Fogel, and S.L. Engerman- A. Wilhelm Wundt
- B. Sigmund Freud
- C. John B. Watson
- D. B. F. Skinner
Explanation: Wilhelm Wundt is commonly called the father of modern psychology because he established psychology as a separate experimental discipline.
Correct answer: Wilhelm Wundt