In this trivia quiz on the topic of psychology, let’s take a look at the multifaceted discipline that looks at the science of behaviour and mind, which embraces the different aspects of conscious and unconscious experience, including thought and memory.
True
False
Electroencephalography
Magnetoencephalography
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Encephalographic stimulation
Research psychologists are often ignorant of psychonalytic thinking
No one is interested in psychoanalytic thinking, even psychoanalysts
Psychoanalytic thinking has been perfected with object relations theory so there is no room for advancement
Neo-freudians respect freud too much to contradict his theory
Acting ability/extraversion/other-directedness
Narcissism/extraversion/neuroticism
Integrity/self-esteem/extraversion
Acting ability/narcissism/integrity
Primary process thinking is impulsive, whereas secondary process is rational
Primary process thinking is rational, whereas secondary process thinking is impulsive
Primary process thinking develops during the anal stage, whereas secondary process thinking develops during the phallic stage
Primary process thinking develops during the oral stage, whereas secondary process thinking develops during the phallic stage.
Emotional pain, crying, and seeking social support
Aggression, hostility, and anger
Fatigue, pessimism, and guilt
Sexual dysfunction, increased cortisol, and increased motor activity
True
False
General patterns that emerge
Exact value of the correlations
The wording of specific items
The smallest correlation
Fatigue simply made it easier for the impulse to be expressed
The slip was an accident regardless of fatigue and should be ignored
The slip was caused by fatigue
The slip was unintentional as long as the content was unrelated to sex or aggression
A study about the genetic contributions to infant attachment
A study of the social cognitive origins of aggressive behavior
A study to determine the impact of early child-rearing practices on adult personality characterisitcs
A study of the role of defensive pessimism in maintaining health
Uncontrolled; controlled
Intentional; unintentional
Idiotic; funny
Direct; indirect
What the person unconsiously believes
What the person wishes to happen
What causes extreme depression
What the person consciously thinks and how the person behaves
The basis of male development
Deviation from the male model
An example of normal development
Unworthy of discussion
True
False
Men's and women' behavioral tendencies will change over thousands of years
Men's and women's behavioral tendencies will change relatively quickly (over hundreds of years)
Men'sand women's behavioral tendencies will probably never change
Men will primarily adopt child-rearing duties and women will primarily adopt the duties of rulers and warriors.
Perform better in job interviews
Use strategies to influence co-workers
Be willing to lie to get a date
Masturbate less often
Remain passive and dependent; dependency and passivity
Relinquish his or her attachment to the opposite-sex parent; jealousy and sexual identity
Exhibit self-control and obedience; control and authority relations
Be assertive and productive; creation and enhancement of life
Emotional reactions to events and thoughts; ability to make decisions about what is and is not important
Primary visual and auditory cortexes; ability to distinguish real sensory stimulation from hallucinations
Reptilian brain; ability to perform creative activities as opposed to fixed action patterns
Ability to experience pain; fear of consequences
Fantasy; real
Unsafe;safe
Real;fantasy
Primary; secondary
Occur primarily in early childhood
Continue to change throughout the life span
Depend on the resolution of the Oedipal complex
Involve the investment of the libido at each stage
Predict and understand behavior
Predict and change behavior
Modify and judge behavior
Judge and justify behavior
Unconscious compensation
Animus
Anima
Feminine persona
Psychological deterimination
Mental causality
Psychic determinisim
Libidinal functionalism
Denial
Intellectualization
Reaction formation
Repression
Neurotic; overstimulated
Neurotic; understimulated
Extravert; overaroused
Extravert; underaroused
True
False
True
False
Regression
Fixation
Transference
The secondary process
It will be a small number
It will be a large number
It will be impossible to calculate
The heritability coefficient will become very unstable
Respond to reward
Generate acute feelings anxiety
Block the effects of opiates
Generate vertigo
Preconcious mind
Ego
Superego
Conscious mind
Regression
Transference
Sublimation
Libidinal restructuring
True
False
Harder to judge
Easier to judge
Less depressed
Less conscientious
Testosterone levels in the womb predict subsequent preferences for traditional sex roles
Enjoyment of traditional sex roles is heritable
There is little evidence for segregation by gender in the playgroups of young children
Homosexual men and women report relatively less preference for gender stereotypes behaviors in childhood.
True
False
Depressive
Constructive
Enhancing
Paranoid
Absolute
Ipsative
Mean-level
Rank order
Depressed and melancholic
Cold and apathetic
Cheerful and robust
Angry and bitter
The repression has created additional psychic energy that will make her more creative
She has little psychic energy left to spend on her writing
Nothing has changed and her writing will proceed as well as it normally does
The repression has created additional energy for her to invest in other outlets.
True
False
An extravert
An introvert
A neurotic
A psychopath
Paralaxes
Parapraxes
Paraphrases
Parafraxes
Psychic conflict
Delay of gratification
Sublimation
Reaction formation
The lower the pitch of males voices the more children they had
The higher the pitch of male voices the more children they had
There was no relationship between the pitch of a man's voice and the number of children they had
Pitch of voice was found to be related to estrogen levels
True
False
Whether genetic factors play some role in shaping individual differnces
Whether the etiology of certain conditoins such as mental retardation is environmental
Whether genes and environments interact to produce behavior
How much variability in a trait is due to non-shared environmental factors
Stressful life events
High neuroticism
Low extraversion
Childhood maltreatment
Relatively uneducated men from low economic classes
Very educated men from high economic classes
Relatively uneducated women and both educated and uneducated men
All men regardless of education or class background
Harm/care
Ingroup loyalty
Authority/respect
Purity