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Psychology Trivia Night!
Psychology Trivia Night!
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#getpsyched for trivia, y'all
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1
Where did the Zimbardo experiment occur?
In a fake war zone
In a fake hospital
In a fake prison
In a fake classroom
2
Which area of the brain is responsible for speech production?
Broca's area
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Wernicke's area
3
Which area of the brain is most involved with planning and predicting consequences?
Temporal lobe
Parietal lobe
Occipital lobe
Frontal lobe
4
Which is NOT a tactic used to maintain a positive self-concept?
Modesty Bias
Downward comparison
Unrealistic optimism
Self-handicapping
5
Which hemisphere seems to play a more important role in visual and spatial tasks?
Left hemisphere
Occipital hemisphere
Upper hemisphere
Right hemisphere
6
Which of the following is not a neurotransmitter?
Cortisol
Serotonin
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
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Phillip Zimbardo
Sigmund Freud
William Wundt
Stanley Milgram
8
A testable prediction about an observable phenomenon derived from theory is known as a:
Trait
Measure
Hypothesis
Variable
9
Who popularized introversion and extroversion as personality models?
Carl Jung
Karen Horney
Alfred Adler
Carl Rogers
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Creativity
Openness
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
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You buy a house. When you sell it years later, it's only...
You pay for a gym pass but never use it
You buy front-row tickets to a concert, but you get sick...
You find out your coupon is expired, but you try to use ...
12
The occipital lobes are responsible for the processing of what kind of information:
Speech and movement
Sensory information
Visual information
Auditory information
13
Under which category does "iconic memory" fall?
Sensory memory
Working memory
Implicit memory
Long-term memory
14
A behavioural psychologist would probably say that:
we act based on rewards and punishments received
the unconscious stimulates our behaviour
the mind is most important when analyzing behaviour
introspection is a useful way to study mental processes
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Displacement
Regression
Projection
Reaction formation
16
This is the tendency to overestimate how much other people share our own ideas and beliefs.
Hindsight Bias
False Consensus Effect
Replication
Group Polarization
17
A standard university exam tests your:
Explicit memory
Implicit memory
Passive memory
Effortful memory
18
In a split brain patient the _______ is severed.
Corpus Callosum
Hypothalamus
Optic Chiasm
Brain stem
19
Which is NOT one of the determined attachment styles examined in the "Strange Situation Test"?
Sensitive attachment
Secure attachment
Disorganized attachment
Anxious avoidant attachment
20
Who is considered the father of humanistic psychology?
Jean Piaget
Abraham Maslow
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
21
Consider the following: ______ motivates reparation, and ______ motivates withdrawal.
Guilt, pride
Guilt, shame
Loyalty, pride
External pressure, exhaustion
22
What is the fear of clowns called?
Clownophobia
Coulrophobia
Conophobia
Comedic phobia
23
You are shown inkblots and asked what you see in them. What is this test called?
Projective Ink Test
Rorschach Test
Barnum Test
Thematic Apperception Test
24
According to Atkinson-Shiffrin Model, what are the 2 processing pathways to long-term memory?
Passive pathway and active pathway
Applied pathway and unapplied pathway
High pathway and low pathway
Automatic pathway and effortful pathway
25
_______ is remembered for his survival of a traumatic head injury involving a large iron rod.
Phineas Gage
Karl Marx
H.M.
Sanders Carlsberg
26
Which term did Sigmund Freud coin?
Psychoanalysis
Systematic desensitization
Psychopathological functioning
Anticipatory coping
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Defense mechanisms
Superego
Id
Ego
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Cognitive Dissonance
Halo Effect
Self-serving Bias
Reciprocity
29
Milgram investigated _____when he had participants shock learners upon wrong answers.
Cruelty
Motivation
Obedience
Teaching
30
Which of the following is not a method of brain-imaging?
PET
fEMG
CT
fMRI