What you know about Psychology Test

1. What you know about Psychology Test

2. # 1 • The behavior of most lower animals-insects, reptiles, and amphibians, most rodents, and birds is instinctive and unaffected by learning. • T/F

3. # 2 • For the first week of life, a baby sees nothing but a gray blur regardless of what he or she “looks at.”

4. # 3 • A child learns to talk more quickly if the adults around the child habitually repeat the word he or she is trying to say, using proper pronunciation.

5. # 4 • The best way to get a chronically noisy child to settle down and pay attention is to punish him or her.

6. #5 • Slow learners remember more of what they learn than fast learners

7. #6 • Highly intelligent people “ Geniuses” tend to be physically frail and socially isolated.

8. #7 • On average, you cannot predict from a person’s grades at school and college whether he or she will do well in a career.

9. #8 • Most stereotypes are completely true.

10. #9 • In small amounts, alcohol is a stimulant.

11. #10 • LSD causes chromosome damage.

12. #11 • The largest drug problem in the United States, in terms of number of people affected, is marijuana.

13. #12 • Psychiatry is a subdivision of psychology.

14. #13 • Most mentally retarded people are also mentally ill.

15. #14 • A third or more of the people suffering from severe mental disorders are potentially dangerous.

16. #15 • Electroshock therapy is an outmoded technique rarely used in today’s mental hospitals.

17. #16 • The more severe the disorder, the more intensive the therapy required to cure it.

18. #17 • Nearly all the psychological characteristics of men and women appear to be inborn; in all cultures, for example women are more emotional and sexually less aggressive than men.

19. #18 • No reputable psychologist “believes in” such irrational phenomena as ESP, hypnosis, or the bizarre mental and physical achievements of Eastern yogis.

20. Social Psychology 101 • Number of hands with 5 or more TRUE? • Number of hands with less than 5 TRUE?

21. How much do you know?? • They are ALL FALSE !