Psychology as a Social Science

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Psychology as a Social Science: Overview

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In which activities include planning how to approach a learning task, using appropriate skills and strategies to solve a problem, monitoring one's own comprehension of text, self-assessing and self-correcting in response to the self-assessment, evaluating progress towards the completion of a task?

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Personalisation Internal/external is one of the dimensions of explanatory style given by:

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Given below are two statements – one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Behaviour in latent learning is observed even without punishment or reward.
Reason (R): Lack of these is what makes latent learning different from operant conditioning.
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Identify the correct statement regarding self-regulation.
1. It is our ability to monitor emotions to produce positive results.
2. This term was coined by Mihaly.
3. It includes unlearned motives.
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When axon is undifferentiated from the dendrite it is called:

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Which of the following are the main output centers of limbic system?

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Which kind of rotational method must be used, when one person wishes a non-orthogonal solution?

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The transpersonal psychology of Ken Wilber is often mentioned as an?

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In the year _____, the department of applied psychology was developed at the University of Mumbai.

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Which of the following theorists is credited with the development of Gestalt psychotherapy?

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Consider the following statements:
1. A lesion effect suggests that the area is involved in the behavior under observation.
2. But it does not prove that the brain area is the originating source for brain activity associated with that behavior.
3. Even when a positive lesion effect is noted, depending on the lesion method used, there is a chance that the brain structure or area is not even involved in the behavior under observation.

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One of the first cognitive psychology experiments introduced by F.C Donders, in which he introduced psychology to the concept of being able to ascertain the exact duration of a mental judgement following the presentation of a stimulus. This is referred to as:

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Consider the following statements and choose the correct option.

1. Torrance’s test is one of the most popular tests of creative thinking among a creative test.
2. Torrance test of creative thinking meet the standards of the Binet and Wechsler scale.