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.

Key Features:

  • Multiple choice questions
  • Designed for all levels of knowledge
  • Gain insights into psychological concepts
35 Questions9 MinutesCreated by LearningMind321
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
A set of beliefs or expectation about something or someone (mental flies)
Prejudice
Schemata
Attribution
Attitude
To be persuaded you must not pay attention to the message
True
False
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
Among the most common teratogens are
Clay and pebbles
Nicotine and alcohol
Caffeine and glucose
Drugs
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
How did people die in 19th Century?
Chronic diseases
Infectious disease and malnutrition
Tuberculosis
Covid-19
How did people die in the 20th century
Chronic disease
Infectious disease
Covid-19
HIV/AIDS
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
How we understand Illness?
Illness perception
Illness sensation
Illness cognition
Illness identity
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