PSY 100: Introduction Quiz

1. To be useful, laboratory experiments in psychology must recreate the behaviors of everyday life.

2. A strong correlation between 2 variables means that one of those variables causes the other.

3. Psychology is defined as the study of abnormal behavior and its treatment.

4. Psychologists study behavior and the mind, but not biology.

5. Newborns can see only light and dark shades.

6. Most mothers are depressed for a time after their children grow up, leave home, and marry.

7. Advertisers are able to shape our buying habits through subliminal messages.

8. Psychological research indicates that some people do have ESP.

9. Negative reinforcement is the same as punishment.

10. The greater the reward promised for performing an activity, the more one will enjoy the activity.

11. In order to be creative, a person must be very intelligent.

12. In general, people underestimate how much they really know.

13. Heredity, and not environment, determines one’s score on an intelligence test.

14. Most people come through adolescence with emotional scars and conflicts.

15. Most of us suffer from unrealistically low self-esteem.

16. The most common form of schizophrenia is the split personality.

17. Without professional help, people who suffer from psychological disorders inevitably get worse.

18. Most people would refuse to obey an authority who told them to hurt an innocent person.

19. People of high intelligence are more likely to suffer mental illness than people of average intelligence.

20. Competition is instinctive in human nature.

21. The image of the moon is magnified by the atmosphere when the moon is low in the sky.

22. If your car breaks down, you are more likely to get help from a passerby on a busy highway than on a lightly
traveled country road.

23. The more motivated and aroused you are, the better your performance will be.

24. Opposite types of people attract each other and are more likely to form relationships.

25. Freud believed that our basic personality pattern is established by the time we are five years old.