Psychology Trivia Questions And Answers
1.
What is the ego defense mechanism whereby threatening or painful thoughts are excluded from awareness?
Answer:
Repression
2.
What is the exact repetition of phrases spoken by other people called?
Answer:
Echolalia
3.
The ancient operation of trephination required the drilling or cutting of what?
Answer:
Skull
4.
What real-life sufferer from schizophrenia is depicted in the movie "A Beautiful Mind"?
Answer:
John Nash
5.
What discredited science studied skull shape and bumps to predict personality traits?
Answer:
Phrenology
6.
What is a xenophobe fearful of?
Answer:
Strangers
7.
Which personality disorder is characterized by instability, irritability, impulsive anger, and external mood shifts?
Answer:
Borderline
8.
Per the DSM-IV, diagnosis of schizophrenia can be made after symptoms have continued for how long?
Answer:
6 Months
9.
John Watson and Rosalie Rayner's Little Albert experiments proved that what can be conditioned?
Answer:
Fear
10.
John Langdon-Down, who first identified Down's Syndrome, was a physician from which country?
Answer:
United Kingdom
11.
Many antidepressants change the activity of which neurotransmitter?
Answer:
Norephinephrine
12.
People with what personality style are said to be more relaxed and less aggressive?
Answer:
Type B
13.
Phineas Gage's personality was severely altered after an iron rod pierced what part of his brain?
Answer:
Frontal Lobe
14.
A study of the psychological effects of imprisonment was conducted in 1971 at what university?
Answer:
Stanford
15.
What is the name of the group of anti-anxiety drugs that includes Valium and Xanax?
Answer:
Benzodiazepines
16.
What therapy technique points out irrational assumptions and suggests new ones?
Answer:
Rational-Emotive Therapy
17.
Who founded the first formal laboratory of Psychology at the University of Leipzig in 1879?
Answer:
Wilhelm Wundt
18.
Who is considered the founder of Gestalt Psychology?
Answer:
Max Wertheimer
19.
Whose works include "Client-Centered Therapy", and "On Becoming a Person"?
Answer:
Carl Rogers
20.
Whose experiments with inkblots in 1911 led to one of the most widely-used projective tests?
Answer:
Rorschach
21.
Whose book "Baby and Child Care" sold over 50 million copies in their lifetime?
Answer:
Dr. Spock
22.
What psychological theory describes the ego states of the critical and nurturing parent?
Answer:
Transactional Analysis
23.
Which of the following personality disorders is found in the DSM-III but was taken out of the DSM-IV?
Answer:
Passive/Aggressive
24.
A therapist instructs the client to engage in the behavior or symptom he or she seeks relief from. This is an example of?
Answer:
Paradoxical Intervention
25.
Which technique is most true in person centered therapy?
Answer:
Techniques Therapists Use Are Less Important Than His/Her Attitudes
26.
Existential Therapy places emphasis on what?
Answer:
The Quality Of The Client/Therapist Relationship
27.
In 1949 an article in the New York Times deemed which procedure a near miracle?
Answer:
Lobotomy
28.
In which year was electroshock therapy first used on a human patient?
Answer:
1938
29.
In which defense mechanism does a person adopt the opposite behavior of the impulses they fear to face?
Answer:
Reaction Formation
30.
Pavlov's famous experiment with dogs originally set out to discover secrets of what?
Answer:
The Digestive System
31.
The American Psychological Association was founded in what year?
Answer:
1892
32.
What condition is electroconvulsive therapy most often used to treat?
Answer:
Depression
33.
What disorder did American psychiatrist Leo Kanner first discover in 1943?
Answer:
Autism
34.
What is the delusion of being an animal called?
Answer:
Lycanthropy
35.
What is the name of the view in which abnormal psychological functioning is caused by physical causes?
Answer:
Somatogenic Perspective
36.
What part of the hypothalamus reduces hunger when activated?
Answer:
Ventromedial Hypothalamus
37.
What was the first state to recognize psychology as a practice-oriented profession?
Answer:
Connecticut
38.
What, according to Carl Jung, is the name of the female aspect in the collective unconscious of men?
Answer:
Anima
39.
What, according to Freud, is the psychological force that employs reason?
Answer:
Ego
40.
In 1883, the first laboratory of psychology was established in what American city?
Answer:
Johns Hopkins University
41.
Which of the four lobes of the brain is responsible for receptive language, memory and emotion?
Answer:
Temporal
42.
Which state became the first to pass a bill that called for the sterilization of people with mental disorders?
Answer:
Indiana
43.
Who discovered the effectiveness of using Lithium to treat mental disorders in 1949?
Answer:
John Cade
44.
Who is best known for naming dementia praecox, what we now call schizophrenia?
Answer:
Emil Kraepelin
45.
Who is considered the father of behaviorism?
Answer:
John Watson
46.
Which psychologist was the son of German film and stage celebrities and was encouraged to become an actor?
Answer:
Hans Eysenck
47.
Whose theories of psychosocial development did the idea of the "identity crisis" derive from?
Answer:
Erik Erikson
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