Psychology
Explore Psychology: Test Your Knowledge
Welcome to the Psychology Quiz! Test your understanding of fundamental concepts and theories in psychology through engaging multiple-choice questions. This quiz covers a wide range of topics, from sensory systems to memory, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of your psychology knowledge.
- 30 thought-provoking questions
- Gain insights into psychological principles
- Perfect for students and enthusiasts alike
The philosophical question of how experience is related to the brain is?
The mind-brain problem
Free will vs determinism
The nature-nurture issue
What major philosophical issues in psychology answer the question: How do differences in behavior relate to differences in heredity and environment?
The nature-nurture issue
The mind-brain problem
Free will vs determinism
Which of the following theories or models refers to mathematical psychology?
Cognitive models
Alpha activity models
The mind-brain problem
The view that conscious experience is inseparable from the physical brain is?
Monism
Dualism
Behavior
The process by which an organism learns a new association between two paired stimuli—a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response—is known as ….
Pavlovian conditioning
Instrumental conditioning
Thorndike’s conditioning
An empirical relationship between arousal and performance, originally developed by psychologists is related to …. ?
The Yerkes - Dodson law
The Jung - Freud law
Piaget-Solomon Asch law
What kind of contribution was made by the famous psychophysiologist Pravdich-Neminsky in 1912?
Published the first paper about animal EEG and the Evoked potential of the mammalian (dog).
Published the first paper about human EEG.
Published the first paper about animal EEG and the Evoked potential of the human.
What is an electroencephalography?
A technique that measures voltage changes at scalp level stemming from electrical currents inside the brain.
A method of studying diseases of the central nervous system.
A method of studying the blockage of cerebral vessels.
Choose the best answer. List all the modulator systems in the brain?
Reticular formation, noradrenaline system, dopamine system, serotonin system.
Noradrenaline system, dopamine system, serotonin system, respiratory system, brainstem.
Dopamine system, serotonin system, visceral system, brainstem.
Please, choose the best answer. What Do We Sense?
Modality, intensity, timing, localization
Intensity, timing, sensing, localization
Localization, modality, perception, timing
Please, choose the correct statements:
Receptive field is the region of space in which the presence of a stimulus will induce the production of a signal in that neuron
The receptive field of sensory neurons in the somatosensory and visual systems define the spatial resolution of a stimulus
The sensory neurons for hearing, taste, and smell are spatially organized according to sensitivity
Five functions in the Sensory Systems:
Detection of outside energy, Sensory Encoding, Signal transmission, Signal processing, Action
Detection of outside energy, Signal transmission, Signal processing, Emotion, Action
Detection of outside energy, Motivation, Sensory Encoding, Signal processing, Action
Choose the best answer. What kinds of photoreceptors are responsible for color perception?
S cone, M cone, L cone.
S rod, M rod, P rod.
S rod, M rod, L rod.
Photoceptors are located in ...:
Retina
Pigment epithelium
Optic disc
Which sensory receptor adapts slowly to a stimulus and continues to produce action potentials over the duration of the stimulus?
A tonic receptor
A phasic receptor
Weber ‘s receptor
Define the term “photopic vision”:
Is the vision of the eye under well-lit conditions .
Is the vision of the eye under low light conditions.
Is the vision of the eye in the night.
The lowest level at which a stimulus can be detected called …..
Absolute threshold
Differential threshold
Terminal threshold
Please, define mechanism by which the eye changes refractive power by altering the shape of lens in order to focus objects at variable distance.
Accommodation
Binocular vision
Adaptation
Choose the best answer. What does “sensory deprivation” mean?
A process by which someone is deprived of normal external stimuli such as sight and sound for an extended period, especially as an experimental technique in psychology
A process by which someone is activated by normal external stimuli such as sight and sound for an extended period, especially as an experimental technique in psychology
A process by which someone is changed by modified external stimuli, especially as an experimental technique in psychology
Human memory storage capacity
From 1 terabyte to 2,5 petabytes
From 10 terabytes to 1,5 petabytes
From 1 terabyte to 100 terabytes
Types of memory framed by time?
Working, short term, long term
Declarative, implicit, working
Retrograde, anterograde
What is disease that affect memory?
Accentuations
Amnesia
Phobias
Choose the best answer. Memory is ….
A psychical cognitive process aimed at preserving information
A psychical cognitive process aimed at capturing, preserving, reproducing, and forgetting one or another information
The psychical cognitive process aimed at capturing, preserving, reproducing information, reinforce and accelerate activation.
Procedual, nonassociative and conditioning are refer to … memory
Non-declarative
Semantic
Episodic
What is an event that increases the future probability of the most recent response?
Visceral responses
Refreshment
Reinforcement
Famous American patient with memory problems whose hippocampus and amygdale were removed in order to cure his epilepsy
Brenda Milner
Henry Molaison
Stanley Milgram
Artificial Intelligence is …
Intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals
Intelligence demonstrated by humans, in contrast to the machines intelligence displayed by animals
Natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals
Please, continue the sentence correctly. Wisdom …
Involves an integration of knowledge, experience, and deep understanding that incorporates tolerance for the uncertainties of life as well as its ups and downs
The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate
Intelligence or shrewdness
In 1905, a new test for measuring intelligence was introduced and simply called
The Binet–Simon scale
Experimental Studies of Intelligence
Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities
Spearman’s theory of General Mental Ability:
Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Logical Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning, Mental Reasoning, Logical Reasoning
Numerical Reasoning, Specific Reasoning, Logical Reasoning
Raymond Cattell (1941) proposed two types of cognitive abilities:
Fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence
Mental intelligence, crystallized intelligence
Mechanical intelligence, brain intelligence
Five factor model (Costa and McCrae) includes:
Extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness , conscientiousness
Heritability, consensual validation, openness, predictive utility
Sociability, neuroticism-anxiety, impulsive sensation seeking, aggression-hostility, activity
Choose the correct expression:
The ego develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world
Denial - believing that what is false is actually true
Suppression - redirecting ‘wrong’ urges into socially acceptable actions
The ego is:
A component of personality which is responsible for dealing with reality
The pleasure principle, which strives for immediate gratification of all desires, wants, and needs
The primary component of personality, the source of all psychic energy
Choose the correct continuation of the sentence. Extraverts ….
Tend to focus their attention on the outer world of people and things
Like a flexible and spontaneous approach to life and prefer to keep their options open
Like a planned and organized approach to life and prefer to have things settled
Introverts are better at…
Vigilance task
Divided attention task
Speech production task
What is consciousness?
The state of a person's mental life, expressed in the subjective experience of the events of the external world and the life of the individual himself, as well as in the account of these events.
A term used to refer to mental processes that occur without displaying them in consciousness and in addition to conscious control.
Mental process, which is a mental reflection of individual properties and states of the external environment, a subject of internal or external stimuli and stimuli with the involvement of the nervous system.
What is the brain activity which is mostly characterize the unconscious state?
Delta activity
Theta activity
Alpha activity
What is motivation?
Describes an impulse to movement – as when the expectation of a desired outcome mobilizes someone into action
Internal states that direct behaviors or decisions, ranging from basic homeostatic imbalance correction to psychosocial needs
Occurs when an observer's behavior changes after viewing the behavior of a model
Hierarchy of needs?
Physiological, Safety, Social, Esteem, Self-actualization
The drive to become what one is capable of becoming; includes growth, achieving one’s potential, and self-fulfillment
�Lower order” needs are satisfied externally while “higher order” needs are satisfied internally
Where is Broca’s area located?
Cerebellum
Frontal lobe
Temporal lobe
What is the type of aphasia when an individual has word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say?
Anomic aphasia
Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia
Who used the sign as the organizing concept to express the conventional nature of language in the phrase "l'arbitraire du signe”?
Ferdinand de Saussure
Noam Chomsky
Alexander Luria
What is Chomsky's linguistic theory related to?
Biolinguistics
Radical behavioristic psychology
Neurolinguistics
The sign system that is used to form and express thoughts is:
Style
Speech
Language
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