Kim has a bachelor's degree in psychology, but she knows that she has been developing skills during her coursework that will allow her to obtain employment in many different areas. Some of these skills she has developed include being able to work independently, to locate information, to write reports, and to make oral presentations. Kim also knows that it will be important for her to continue to
add to these skills throughout her career. According to the Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major, Kim is demonstrating which competency?
a. personal development
b. application of psychology
c. critical thinking skills in psychology
d. career planning and development
D
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Remembering the first and last items of a list better than items in the middle is due to
a. the tip-of-the-tongue state. b. redintegration. c. the serial position effect. d. the pseudo-memory effect.
The intersensory redundancy hypothesis suggests that
a. through experience with objects, the infant's perceptual system will advance from an amodal to an intermodal state. b. information from various senses can be redundant when it represents the same object. c. sensory information is not to be integrated. d. integration of sensory information can be too complex for young children.
William is a police officer who is instructed by a superior officer to beat a subject in order to obtain a confession. According to research done on obedience, William is more likely to disobey this order if:
A) the superior officer is in the room with William and the suspect. B) another senior officer agrees that William should beat the subject. C) the suspect asks William to stop. D) William sees another police officer refuse to continue beating the subject.
When classifying your skills,
a. artistic skills rarely help in the workplace. b. consider only formal training, not hobbies. c. it is generally easy to answer the question "what are you good at?" d. think about tasks you have the ability to perform well.