PSYC 221 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Psychology Knowledge Check

Test your knowledge of psychology with this comprehensive quiz designed for students, teachers, and enthusiasts. Covering topics from Erikson’s stages of development to cognitive theories, this quiz will challenge your understanding and application of psychological principles.

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Erik Erikson (1902-1990) proposed a theory of development which emphasized the role of

Cognitive and behavioural factors in development

Cognitive factors in development

Social and cultural factors in development

Emotional factors in development

Stages of psychosocial development: industry versus inferiority

6 to 11 years

Adolescence

young adulthood

Middle adulthood

Stages of psychosocial development: Basic trust versus mistrust

1 to 3years

Birth to 1 year

3 to 6years

7 to 11 years

As per Piaget children's ………….. Development is progressing through four stages

Physical

Emotional

Cognitive

Functional

The notion that development occurs in stages

Assumes the learning perspective

Is supported by interactionist theory

Is consistent with the process of cumulative action

Endorses the discontinuity view

The correct order of the three stages of human prenatal development are

Embryo, zygote, fetus

Placental, umbilical, embryonic

Zygote, embryo, fetus

Differentiation, implantation, strengthening

People are likely to invest less effort in a task when they are working with others. What is this phenomenon called?

Social facilitation

Social loafing

Social Impairment

Bystander effect

What is group polarization?

The tendency for a dominant point of view in a group to be strengthened to a more extreme position after a group discussion

The strength of the liking and commitment group members have toward each other and to a group

The tendency of a close-knit group to emphasize consensus at the expense of critical thinking and rational decision making

A situation in which one harms oneself and others by acting in one’s self-interest

What is Philip Zimbardo’s prison study?

The prison study showed how people are influenced by corrections

The prison study showed how people are influenced by group think

The prison study showed how people are influenced by roles

The prison study showed how people are influenced by group influence

Attraction is influenced by which of the following?

Whether people live or work in the same neighborhood

How similar people are to each other

Whether liking is reciprocated

All of the above

When are people more likely to be persuaded by a message?

If they like the person sending the message

If they are forewarned about the message

If they think the person sending the message has a vested interest in the point of view expressed in the message

All of the above

Suppose Bawa persuades his roommate to make him a cup of tea, then gets his roommate to cook for a week. What is this strategy called?

The lowball technique

Social facilitation

The foot-in-the-door technique

The-Door-in-the-face technique

Ethel sees her psychology professor arguing angrily with a worker at UGCS. From this, She assumes that her professor is a hostile person. What does her assumption illustrate?

The just world hypothesis

The bystander effect

The fundamental attribution error

Cognitive dissonance

Muszafer Sherif believed that __________ would reduce prejudice behavior.

Sharing background

Group sharing

Talking out differences

Working together to solve a problem

Nana has constantly heard that he is not a good student and starts acting how people perceive him after a while. This recent behavioral change supports the following:

Groupthink

Group polarization

Social influence

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Which of these things is health psychology concerned with?

What causes illness?

Who is responsible for illness?

How should illness be treated?

All of the above

Which of these is not an example of a health behaviour?

Smoking

Going to the gym

Eating healthy food

Taking regular exercise

Any event, condition, which we view as threatening, challenging or overwhelming

Sakai

Stressor

Depressive stimulus

Anxiety

Applies Psychology's method and principles to selecting and evaluating workers

Organizational psychology

Personnel psychology

Human factor psychology

None of the above

The intense, enduring, social-emotional relationship that develops between a child and a caregiver is termed

Imprinting

Intimacy

Attachment

Menarche

The importance of schemas was most clearly highlighted by

Erikson's psychosocial development theory

Piaget's cognitive development theory

Harlow's attachment theory.

Kohlberg's moral development theory

Two closed, pyramid-shaped beakers containing clearly identical amounts of a liquid are suddenly judged by a child to hold different amounts after one of the beakers is inverted. The child apparently lacks a:

Sense of object permanence.

Concept of conservation.

Capacity for habituation.

Secure attachment.

A combination of of desire for achievement and the ability to persist at hard work

Practice

Grit

Tenacity

Intuition

How did people die in the 17th-19th centuries

Coronary Disease

Food Poisoning

Infectious diseases and Malnutrition

Chronic diseases

Involves the choosing from a sample of a job applicants the individual best suited to help the job available

Personnel selection

Selection interview

Job analysis

Job description

A subfield of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilities organizational change

Industrial approach

Personnel psychology

Organizational Psychology

Ergonomics

A term used to denote the difference in health status and life expectancy across group

Health gestation

Health differentials

Health factors

None of the above

ManofJudah is a health psychologist who is only interested in explaining all diseases or physical disorder by disturbance in physiological process, which results from injury, biochemical imbalance

Biopsychical model

Socio-Cultural model

Genetic model

Biomedical model

What are related fields of health psychologist

Epidemiology, Public health, medicine

Epidemiology and Public health

Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention

Public health and Prevention

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