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Most user interface designers follow the minimal user effort principle by permitting users to go from the main menu of the system to the information or action need in no more than five mouse clicks or five keystrokes. System documentation […]

Custom development allows developers to be flexible and creative in the way they solve business problems. Change management is the process of helping people to adopt and adapt to the to-be system and its accompanying work processes without undue stress. […]

Gamification deals with applying gaming mechanics to non-gaming situations. The purpose of the design phase is to create a blueprint for the new system. Answer: True Throwaway prototyping balances the benefits of well-thought-out analysis and design phases with the advantages […]

The feasibility analysis helps the approval committee determine whether or not to proceed with a project. Textual analysis is the review of corporate documents to identify potential objects, attributes, operations, and relationships. Answer: False Timeboxing is a popular technique which […]

A company adopting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, has adopted the strategy of outsourcing. An include relationship is modeled in a use case diagram by an arrow with the word <<include>> above it. Answer: True An analyst with business […]

The use of screen and frame titles, well-defined areas on reports and forms, and good field labels apply to the interface design principle of content awareness. Part of the process of creating CRC cards is role-playing them, where individuals perform […]

Performance testing (examining the ability of the system to perform under high loads) is an example of integration testing The function that provides the processing logic required by the human computer interaction layer is called presentation logic. Answer: True It […]

Use cases are the primary drivers for all of the UML diagramming techniques. Content awareness is the user interface design principle that requires that the screen design make it clear to the user what content is being displayed. Answer: True […]

Outsourcing eliminates all risks from the project. Role-playing an instance of a class is a good way to develop CRC cards. Answer: True An advantage of outsourcing the application development process is that the organization may acquire technical skills and […]

A method that combines two functions that use the same attributes to execute exhibits Communicational cohesion. Time required to develop and test user documentation should be built into the project plan. Answer: True Open-ended questions gather rich information because they […]

Adding messages is the last step in building a communication diagram? Actors and objects are placed on a sequence diagram in no particular order. Answer: True Institutionalization refers to establishing formal post implementation deliverables for all projects. Answer: False In […]

Unlike ____, which is passive and automatic, ____ is active and voluntary. A. apperception; perception B. perception; apperception C. attention; creative synthesis D. creative synthesis; attention The ____ model of mental illness assumes that all disease is the result of […]

Lewin’s contention that only facts currently present on one’s life space can influence a person’s thinking and behavior is called: A. a psychological fact B. the principle of contemporaneity C. the principle of contiguity D. the Zeigarnik effect In Charcot’s […]

Fechner found that for the magnitude of a sensation to rise arithmetically, the magnitude of stimulation must rise: A. arithmetically B. geometrically C. algebraically D. exponentially The particular form or pattern of an object is its ____ cause. A. material […]

A psychologist who believes that human behavior is indeed determined but the causes can never be accurately known would be a(n): a. indeterminist b. psychical determinist c. nondeterminist d. physical determinist According to the Sophists, what is it that determines […]

According to Kierkegaard, the religious stage consists of which of the following? A. People are open to experiences and seek out many forms of pleasure, but they do not recognize their ability to choose. B. People accept the responsibility of […]

According to Leibniz, there is nothing in the mind that is not first in the senses except for: A. mathematical knowledge B. the mind itself C. what God has revealed D. the knowledge of moral principles Plato’s theory of forms […]

Which of the following did Comte believe? A. Metaphysical speculation is essential to understanding humans. B. Internal sensations and perceptions are all of which we could be certain. C. Humans cannot be studied objectively because cognitions cannot be known. D. […]

Confessions, a volume about one man’s sins, confessions, and forgiveness, is written by: A. St. Paul B. St. Augustine C. Thomas Aquinas D. Avicenna According to Jung, the ____ provided the feminine component of the male personality and a framework […]

Pragmatism maintains that beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors must be judged according to their: A. logical consistency B. consequences C. moral implications D. compatibility with societal and cultural norms According to the text, the most important reason for the demise of […]

Some believe that although cognitive events are a result of brain activity, such events cannot cause behavior. Such a belief represents: a. materialism b. interactionism c. epiphenomenalism d. occasionalism Nativist is to ____ as empiricist to ____. a. inheritance; experience […]

The training that Witmer envisioned for clinical psychology was most compatible with the education leading to which of the following degrees? A. Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) B. Doctor of Psychology degree (PsyD) C. Master of Arts degree (MA) D. […]

By shifting one’s attention, elements of thought can be arranged and rearranged at will, a process Wundt referred to as: A. perception B. the law of forward conduction C. creative synthesis D. unconscious inference For Tolman, motivation influences ____ but […]

Regarding experiencing emotion, which sequence, according to James, is correct? A. we see a bear, become frightened, and run B. we lose a fortune, feel sorry, and cry C. we strike a person and then become angry D. more than […]

James defined ____ as a ratio of things attempted to things achieved. A. the empirical self B. the self as knower C. the stream of consciousness D. self-esteem According to Rogers, using the ____ as a guide for living one’s […]

“Nothing-butism” is the claim that behavior is: A. caused solely by biological factors B. caused solely by environmental factors C. caused only by biological factors or that it is caused only by environmental factors. D. caused by both biological and […]

Who formulated a theory of evolution similar to Darwin’s at about the same time that Darwin formulated his own theory? A. Lamarck B. Spencer C. Malthus D. Wallace Hartley believed that vibrations in the brain continued after the external stimulation […]

Wundt believed that physical and psychological causality are: A. essentially the same B. experienced only in the mind C. polar opposites D. intrinsically related James believed that the single most informative thing you could know about a person was his […]

What is the fundamental ego defense mechanism because it is involved in all of the other defense mechanisms? A. Sublimation B. Projection C. Identification D. Repression The Renaissance humanists wanted religion to be more: A. universal B. monotheistic C. ritualistic […]

Rousseau’s concept of the general will refers to: A. living out one’s social contract B. a summation of a person’s private will C. the type of government that is best for all D. the innate tendency to live harmoniously with […]

Within a neural network model, learning is explained in terms of changing patterns of: A. parallel distributed processing B. if-then statements C. excitation and inhibition D. mathematical weights For Watson, thinking is: A. internal speech B. imageless C. implicit, unlearned […]

Which of the following was true of Aquinas’ theology? A. It united faith and reason. B. It deplored the study of nature. C. It demonstrated that church dogma was debatable. D. It argued that the Christian church should be as […]

According to Reid, we could trust our notions about the physical world because: A. of the acuteness of the senses B. it made common sense to do so C. Hume’s logic was faulty D. such notions are innate If a […]

The radical behaviorists addressed the mind-body problem by: A. denying the existence of a causal mind B. changing the issue to a mind-brain problem C. accepting epiphenomenalism D. accepting interactionism According to Bacon, the personal biases that result from one’s […]

According to Donders, the time it takes to perform the mental act of discrimination is determined by: A. subtracting simple reaction time from the reaction time that involves discrimination B. computing the choice reaction time C. computing the mental chronometry […]

Which of the following best describes Elizabeth Loftus’s position concerning repressed memories? A. They exist more in the minds of psychotherapists than in the minds of patients. B. Males tend to repress memories of childhood sexual abuse more than females. […]

For Skinner, the environment is important because it: A. elicits behavior B. selects behavior through reinforcement contingencies C. provides the organism with the opportunity to test its expectancies D. allows the organism to develop a cognitive map What term did […]

McDougall stated that all organisms are born with instincts that provide the motivation to act in certain ways. Instincts have three components. Which of the following is one of the three? A. perception B. cognition C. motivation D. reaction Watson […]

Concerning the mind-body relationship, Descartes proposed: A. psychophysical parallelism B. epiphenomenalism C. idealistic monism D. interactionism Camouflage utilizes the Gestalt principle of: A. continuity B. proximity C. closure D. inclusiveness Answer: D Which of the following characteristics of contemporary psychology […]

According to Rousseau, which of the following provides the optimal condition for learning? A. Professionals as teachers B. A child’s natural interests C. A setting free of distractions D. A curriculum designed to teach basic knowledge According to Tolman, the […]

Structuralists are to the contents of the mind as functionalists are to the: A. psychology of the mind B. function of the mind C. neurology of the mind D. philosophy of the mind Which of the following did Burt believe? […]

Hobbes’ explanation of “trains of thought” relied on: A. innate ideas B. the law of contiguity C. spirituality D. rationalism In 1946, the APA published a new journal as the voice of a new, unified psychology.What was this journal? A. […]

The character of the first English settlements in the New World ________. A) remained remarkably similar throughout the seventeenth century B) differed from colony to colony because of government rules C) differed substantially from colony to colony from the very […]

The lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson provide strong evidence that ________. A) Puritans seldom disagreed on matters of theology B) Massachusetts Bay officials insisted on freedom of religious thought and expression C) Massachusetts Bay faced difficulties in creating […]

Public schools in the 1870s and the 1880s ________. A) placed greater value on educating females B) vigorously stressed discipline and routine C) ignored moral, religious education D) emphasized egalitarianism between students and teachers E) were considered better than factories […]

Why did the Sedition Act distress many Americans? A) It threatened their political right to disagree with and speak out against the government. B) It gave the Federalists too much power and reduced the Republicans’ power. C) It suspended free […]

What did the League of Nations do after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia? A) It protected the southern half of the country from Mussolini’s army. B) It halted Mussolini’s forces just before they crossed the Ethiopian border. C) It authorized […]

Actions in which area helped Truman win the 1948 election? A) the Cold War B) labor issues C) civil rights D) his handling of the Korean War E) New Deal reforms After General MacArthur’s victory at Inchon, Korea, Truman _______. […]

In the 1880s and 1890s, the common-law doctrine of femme couverte ________. A) was revised to adapt to the changes of the period B) provided women with freedom in their marriages C) brought women new political rights D) was strongly […]

Why were slave families in the upper South so often headed by women? A) They were following African traditions. B) Husbands often worked elsewhere. C) Mortality rates were unusually high there. D) Women tended to work inside the house. E) […]