Major Field Test Questions and Correct Answers (Verified Answers) A Grade
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Major Field Test Questions and Correct Answers (Verified Answers) A Grade
In the criterion-keying or empirical-keying approach to test construction, the researcher
A. must include items that allow for projective answers
B must include items that could produce percentile ranks
C. must include ...
Major Field Test Questions
and Correct Answers
(Verified Answers) A Grade
In the criterion-keying or empirical-keying approach to test construction, the researcher
A. must include items that allow for projective answers
B must include items that could produce percentile ranks
C. must include items that allow for a range of scores
D. must include items that discriminate between groups
E. must include items that measure speed - Answer ✔ D
According to Piaget, and individual in which of the following stages might demonstrate
circular reactions
A. accommodational
B. sensorimotor
C. preoperational
D. concrete operational
E. formal operational - Answer ✔ B
The theor that a child steals candy because he is a theif is an example of a
A. availability heuristic
B. cognitive bias
C. dispositional attribution
D. response set
E. situational attribution - Answer ✔ C
What is an example of conditioned aversion
A. no longer wanting to drink alcohol because you had too much and it made you sick
B. Wanting to eat a lot of asparagus because it is very good for you
C. not wanting to eat a cheeseburger because you found out how much saturated fat it
contains
D. no longer wanting to eat spinach because you heard that a lot of people who ate
spinach got E. coli
E. wanting to drink a lot of water after you work out because it keeps you from feeling
dehydrated - Answer ✔ A
,A manager of an advertising company is encouraging her workers to think "outside the
box" in order to come up with entirely new angles for advertising. In essence, the
manager is asking her employees to think
A. metacognitively
B. convergently
C. fluidly
D. deductivel
E. divergently - Answer ✔ E
A pigeon is placed in a "skinner box" which is outfitted with a key for pecking and a
chute that delivers food. Through shaping, the experimenter plans to condition the bird
to peck the key in order to obtain food. The experimenter will need to use
A. secondary reinforcement
B. autonomic conditioining
C. differential reinforcemnt
D. autoshaping
E. trace conditioning - Answer ✔ C
Humans see better at night by looking at objects from teh side than by looking straight
at objects. This is explained by
A. the opponent-process theory
B. the way rods are distributed on teh retina
C. the tri-color theory
D. later geniculate activity
E. the crossing of the optic nerves in teh neural pathway - Answer ✔ B
According to Craik and Lockhart, wich of the following leves of processing would result
in the highest recall of information
A. pohonological
B. syntactic
C. repetitive
D. acoustic
E. semantic - Answer ✔ E
Compared to control rats, rats with a lesion to the amygdala would
A. be exactly the same as control rats
B. perform worse at finding food hidden in a maze
C. exhibit less fear in response to stimulus that was previously presented with a shock
D. eat more when gven ulinited access to food
E. have difficulty distingushing different odors - Answer ✔ C
In a laboratory experiment, subjects wear head-phones and are tested individually.
Each of 500 subjects is presented first with a light and tehn possibly with a low-intensity
tone in the earphones. Subjects were instruced to push a button if theiy hear a tone.
Subjects are rewarded with $10 for each hit. In 500 trials, 200 times a tone was
, presented, and 300 times the tone was not presented. 190 tones were detected. Also,
the button was pressed 270 times in response to no tone.
Which of the following describes the subjects overall performance
A. 10 misses and 30 false alarms
B. 10 misses and 30 correct rejections
C. 460 hits
D. 190 hits and 270 misses
E. 280 misses - Answer ✔ B
In a laboratory experiment, subjects wear head-phones and are tested individually.
Each of 500 subjects is presented first with a light and tehn possibly with a low-intensity
tone in the earphones. Subjects were instruced to push a button if theiy hear a tone.
Subjects are rewarded with $10 for each hit. In 500 trials, 200 times a tone was
presented, and 300 times the tone was not presented. 190 tones were detected. Also,
the button was pressed 270 times in response to no tone.
Which of the following statemetns about the above experiment is in line with signal
detection theory
A. the reward offered for hits increased subjects overall response accuracy
B. subjects were unable to detect at least a few tones because some tones were not
just noticeable difference from the previously persented tones.
C. the rewards for hits probably caused the high number of false alarms
D. some subjects might have been distracted by the - Answer ✔ C
According to Kohlberg, and individual in a stage of conventional morality would be most
concerned with
A. gaining rewards
B. gaining approval
C. avoiding punishment
D. achieving fairness
E. adhering to the conservative point of view - Answer ✔ B
Which of the following areas int eh brain has been shown in experiments to be closely
connected to hunger, eating, and satiation
A. medulla oblongata
B. hippocampus
C. hypothalamus
D. thalamus
E. corpus callosum - Answer ✔ C
A child with an IQ of 63 would most likely be diagnosed with
A. Mild mental retardation
B. Severe mental retardation
C. Profound mental retardation
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