Interesting Quiz On Psychology

1. The American Psychological Association was founded in what year?

1892

1875

1911

1904

2. Your son does not like broccoli. You tell him that he has to eat it before going out to play. This is an example of?

Premack Principle

Response Cost

Shaping

Child Abuse

3. In which year was electroshock therapy first used on a human patient?

1938

1968

1912

1977

4. Suicides become much more common at what age than any earlier age?

14

24

12

18

5. Which technique is most true in person centered therapy?

Techniques Therapists Use Are Less Important Than His/Her Attitudes

The Skills That Therapists Possess Are More Important Than His/Her Attitudes Toward The Client

Therapist Should Direct The Session When The Client Is Silent

Therapist Should Be Judgmental At All Times

6. What is one goal of Gestalt therapy?

Client Correcting Faulty Information

Client Replacing One Behavior For Another

Client Reliving Painful Experiences

Client Develop Awareness In The Here And Now

7. Which is the correct sequence of human experiencing from an Adlerian perspective?

First We Feel, Then We Think, Then We Act

First We Act, Then We Feel, Then We Think

First We Think, Then We Feel, Then We Act

First We Feel, Then We Act, Then We Think

8. A therapist instructs the client to engage in the behavior or symptom he or she seeks relief from. This is an example of?

Stress Inoculation

Modeling

Stimulus Control

Paradoxical Intervention

9. Existential Therapy places emphasis on what?

Teaching Clients Cognitive Coping Skills

Uncovering Early Childhood Traumatic Events

The Quality Of The Client/Therapist Relationship

Working Through The Transference Relationship

10. Pavlov's famous experiment with dogs originally set out to discover secrets of what?

The Digestive System

Canine Taste Preferences

Conditioning Methods

Reflexes

11. In which defense mechanism does a person adopt the opposite behavior of the impulses they fear to face?

Displacement

Sublimation

Reaction Formation

Projection

12. Which of the following personality disorders is found in the DSM-III but was taken out of the DSM-IV?

Schizoid

Schizotypal

Passive/Aggressive

Dependent

13. In 1949 an article in the New York Times deemed which procedure a near miracle?

Psychoanalysis

Sterilization

Electroshock Therapy

Lobotomy

14. How many times more often do civilian traumas cause stress disorders as opposed to combat traumas?

6 Times

10 Times

12 Times

8 Times

15. Which of the following is not one of Virginia Satir's defense stances in coping with stress?

Placating

Blaming

Being Irrelevant

Differentiating