Psychology Mcqs
Western cultures are more apt to emphasize_______construals of self.

A. Optimistic
B. Independent
C. Pessimistic
D. Interdependent

The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called:

A. Sensory completion
B. Closure
C. Figure-ground
D. Continuation

Responding to a substance like a sugar pill as if it were a drug is called:

A. the placebo effect
B. an extraneous variable
C. variability
D. psychosomatic illness

What is socialization?

A. Our identity
B. What people see as our status in society?
C. The process by which we learn what is expected of us in society
D. The roles we occupy in our daily lives

His main work was the Philosophy of History’ Identify?

A. Hegel
B. R. Aron
C. K. Marx
D. Engels

What is subculture?

A. A culture with in a culture
B. Something which breaks the rules
C. A way of life
D. None of the above

In Asch’s study of conformity, subjects:

A. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simples
B. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to stranger
C. indicated which of three lines matched a “standard line” in length
D. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice

The McGurk effect best illustrates:

A. Color constancy
B. Sensory interaction
C. The rubber-hand illusion
D. Phantom limb sensations