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
Humanistic
Psychodynamic
Gestalt
Biological

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question 11: Studies on language use in apes have found that:
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
Apes can never use symbols to communicate

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 contain personal address terms.
All languages have terms for green and blue
Each language derives their colour terms from only eleven colour names.

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