Psychology Quizzes, Questions & Answers

Recent Quizzes

Choose the best answer. The quiz covers Chapters 1-4.

Questions: 26 | Attempts: 227 | Last updated: Feb 5, 2025

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Among the most important forces accounting for a cognitive neuroscience revolution during the years following the late 1950s was:

The increase in medical schools

The "failure" of systematic introspection

The rise of structuralism

The "failure" of behaviorism

Aggression is the feeling of anger or antipathy resulting in hostile or violent behavior or the readiness to confront someone. This can be explained through psychology. Test out how you understand the two by taking up the...

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 2597 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

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Name 3 explanations of group aggression?

Serotonin, dopamine, testosterone

Importation model, deprivation model, xenophobia

Power-threat hypothesis, dehumanisation, xenophobia

Power-threat hypothesis, sexual jealousy, infidelity

Aboriginal Perspective Psych Test

Questions: 32 | Attempts: 83 | Last updated: Oct 4, 2023

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Psychology is _________________ .

The study of human origins, evolution and cultures.

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes of any living creature.

A natural science integrating physiology and neurology.

The deductive study of forms and functions of human groups.

Information Processing 3 (Memory)

There are 10 questions in this quiz, there is no time limit and all the questions within it are based on the content supplied in chapter 3. This quiz is the last of the information processing quizzes. Good...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 1667 | Last updated: Feb 5, 2025

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What are the characteristics of the short term sensory store (stss)?

Large capacity and retains information for a long period of time

Small capactiy and retains information for a short period of time (up to a second)

Large capactiy and retains information for a short period of time (up to a second)

Small capacity and retain information for a long period of time

CLEP Introductory Psychology (Quiz 1)

Questions: 100 | Attempts: 2361 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

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Which of the following is the philosophical approach to studying human behavior that emphasizes the purpose or usefulness of behavior?

Structuralism

Behaviorism

Functionalism

Psychoanalysis

Humanism

Psychology: Chapter 4- Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, And Drugs

Psychology: Chapter 4- Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs

When it comes to dealing with some of the issues that people go to psychologist hoping to fix or understand they can either get solutions through some select methods. Some of the methods we discussed under chapter four on...

Questions: 26 | Attempts: 6150 | Last updated: Feb 5, 2025

Sample Question
Most of our time awake is spent in a state called _____, in which our thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized, and we feel alert.

Altered state of consciousness

Waking consciousness

Unconsciousness

Working consciousness

Psychology Quiz: Sleep And Dreams

Psychology Quiz: Sleep and Dreams

We welcome you to our fun sleep and dreams psychology quiz. Do you understand the psychology behind sleep and dreams? If you think you know, take this psychology quiz about see how much you know. Here, we have got some basic...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 3280 | Last updated: Feb 5, 2025

Sample Question
What are circadian rhythms?

Biological clocks

A certain pattern of heart beating during sleep

How fast your eyes move in REM

A type of music

PSYC 342 Quiz 6

10 Multiple choice questions. Choose the best answer.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 412 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

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Which of the following is not likely to occur due to an extinction procedure?

The subject learns the CS and US are no longer associated.

The subject increases the variety of responses it makes.

The subject decreases the number of conditioned responses it makes.

The subject becomes aggressive.

Psychology Quiz: The Science Of Psychology

Psychology Quiz: The Science of Psychology

Do you under the psychology of science? Take this psychology quiz to test your knowledge about the science of psychology. It is basically the branch studies of social science, also known as the study of scientific thought or...

Questions: 30 | Attempts: 3974 | Last updated: Aug 26, 2023

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In the definition of psychology, the term mental processes mean.

Internal, covert processes

Outward behavior

Overt actions and reactions

Only animal behavior

PSYC 342 Quiz 4

Choose the best answer.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 625 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
Which of the following is true of an operant response?

Response speed determines outcome.

Pushing a lever with a paw and pushing a lever with the snout are equivalent.

Licking a water spout and pushing a response lever are equivalent.

Licking a water spout and chewing a food pellet are equivalent.

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