Introductory Psychology

  1. Developed by: Scott McGreal

Test your knowledge of psychology with questions developed for an actual first-year university psychology course.

Question 1: ___________ - existential psychologists stress the importance of self-awareness and people’s freedom to choose
Biological
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Gestalt

Question 2: ._____ psychologists note that only the fittest organisms reach maturity and reproduce, and transmit genes to future generations
Psychodynamic
Evolutionary
Behavioral
Social cognitive

Question 3: One reason that alcohol seems to ‘hit harder’ in women than in men is:
Women report enjoying alcohol more than men
Women tend to drink more
All of these choices
Women metabolize little alcohol in the stomach

Question 4: The Strange Situation test is used to assess what aspect of psychological development?
Psychosocial stages
Meta-cognitive awareness
Moral reasoning
Attachment

Question 5: Which of the following is not one of the temperament types described by Thomas and Chess?
Difficult
Slow-to-warm up
Easy
Hyperactive

Question 6: The Ames Room produces perceptual distortions due to what?
Carefully placed mirrors and distorting lenses
Stroboscopic manipulation of perceptual dissonance
Perceptual habits based on our expectation that rooms have a certain shape
Hallucinogenic substances in the atmosphere

Question 7: The Ganzfeld procedure has been used in the study of what phenomenon?
Virtual reality
Telepathy
Lucid dreaming
Visual illusions

Question 8: Which of Erickson’s psychosocial stages is associated with old age?
Trust vs. mistrust
Wisdom vs. senility
Integrity vs. despair
Intimacy vs. isolation

Question 9: The study of death and dying is known as what?
Scientology
Thanatology
Necromancy
Gerontology

Question 10: General knowledge relies on what form of memory?
Implicit
Semantic
Episodic
Procedural

Question 11: Studies on language use in apes have found that:
Apes can never use symbols to communicate
The potential ability of apes to communicate through sign language appears to be unlimited
Apes can learn a wide range of symbols but their grammatical ability is quite limited
Apes can learn sophisticated grammatical rules but their vocabularies are quite limited

Question 12: Which of the following statements regarding linguistic universals is false?
The existence of colour names in a language is arranged in a hierarchy, e.g. all languages that have a term for red also have terms for black and white.
All languages have terms for green and blue
Each language derives their colour terms from only eleven colour names.
All languages contain personal address terms.

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