Behavioral Psychology Quiz

Explore classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive dissonance & more with this quiz on behavioral psychology concepts.

#1

Which psychologist is known for developing classical conditioning?

B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
Sigmund Freud
#2

What is the concept of 'operant conditioning' primarily associated with?

B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
Jean Piaget
#3

What term describes the tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list more effectively than items in the middle?

Recency effect
Primacy effect
Serial position effect
Spacing effect
#4

Which term describes the process of learning new behaviors or information by watching and imitating others?

Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Observational learning
Social learning
#5

Who proposed the 'Stages of Psychosocial Development'?

Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
Abraham Maslow
Carl Jung
#6

Which term describes the phenomenon where people tend to remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks?

Zeigarnik effect
Spacing effect
Primacy effect
Recency effect
#7

Who proposed the theory of 'Hierarchy of Needs'?

B.F. Skinner
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Albert Bandura
#8

Which term describes the process by which a behavior is gradually learned through reinforcement for successive approximations?

Shaping
Observational learning
Modeling
Classical conditioning
#9

What is the phenomenon where a conditioned response is triggered by a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus?

Generalization
Discrimination
Extinction
Spontaneous recovery
#10

Who is known for proposing the concept of 'Cognitive Dissonance'?

Leon Festinger
Jean Piaget
Erik Erikson
John B. Watson
#11

Who is known for proposing the 'Bobo doll experiment' to study aggression in children?

Albert Bandura
Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
John B. Watson
#12

Who is known for developing the concept of 'Self-Efficacy'?

Albert Bandura
Carl Rogers
Erik Erikson
Abraham Maslow
#13

Who proposed the concept of 'Social Learning Theory'?

B.F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
Carl Jung
Erik Erikson
#14

Which term describes the tendency to attribute one's own thoughts and feelings to others?

Projection
Transference
Empathy
Introjection
#15

Who proposed the 'Two-Factor Theory of Emotion'?

William James
Stanley Schachter
Carl Rogers
Erik Erikson
#16

What term describes the tendency to give undue weight to the first information received when making decisions?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Hindsight bias
Primacy effect
#17

Which term describes the tendency to overestimate the impact of situational factors and underestimate the influence of personal factors when evaluating others' behavior?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
Actor-observer bias
#18

What term describes the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and one's failures to external factors?

Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Actor-observer bias
Confirmation bias

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