Psychological Concepts and Behavior Quiz

Challenge yourself with questions on cognitive psychology concepts like confirmation bias, classical conditioning, motivation theories, and more!

#1

Which psychological concept refers to the tendency to seek out and favor information that confirms our existing beliefs or ideas?

Cognitive dissonance
Confirmation bias
Social facilitation
Operant conditioning
#2

In classical conditioning, what term describes the diminishing response to a stimulus if it is presented repeatedly without reinforcement?

Discrimination
Generalization
Extinction
Spontaneous recovery
#3

Which neurotransmitter is primarily associated with pleasure and reward?

Dopamine
Serotonin
Acetylcholine
Endorphins
#4

Who proposed the stages of psychosocial development, including trust vs. mistrust and industry vs. inferiority?

Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
Lawrence Kohlberg
Sigmund Freud
#5

Which type of reinforcement involves the removal of an aversive stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior?

Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
#6

In the Stanford prison experiment, who was the principal investigator?

Philip Zimbardo
Stanley Milgram
Solomon Asch
B. F. Skinner
#7

Which theory of motivation suggests that behavior is driven by the desire to fulfill innate biological needs?

Cognitive dissonance theory
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Drive reduction theory
Operant conditioning theory
#8

What term is used to describe the tendency for individuals to perform better on tasks when in the presence of others?

Group polarization
Social loafing
Social facilitation
Deindividuation
#9

What term is used to describe the phenomenon where individuals conform to a group's decision despite personally disagreeing with it?

Groupthink
Social conformity
Obedience
Persuasion
#10

What concept in psychology suggests that individuals have the tendency to attribute their own actions to external factors while attributing others' actions to internal factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
Cognitive dissonance
#11

What term refers to the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors while attributing failures to external factors?

Self-fulfilling prophecy
Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias
#12

Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, which includes linguistic, logical-mathematical, and spatial intelligence?

Howard Gardner
Albert Bandura
Lev Vygotsky
Jean Piaget
#13

Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five personality traits?

Extraversion
Conscientiousness
Introversion
Neuroticism
#14

What phenomenon in memory refers to the improved recall of information when the context at encoding and retrieval are the same?

State-dependent memory
Sensory memory
Flashbulb memory
Context-dependent memory
#15

What is the term for the mental shortcut that involves making judgments or decisions based on information that is easily accessible or readily available?

Representativeness heuristic
Availability heuristic
Anchoring heuristic
Confirmation bias
#16

What term refers to the tendency for individuals to perform worse on tasks when in the presence of others due to a fear of evaluation?

Social loafing
Deindividuation
Social facilitation
Group polarization
#17

What concept in psychology suggests that individuals experience a conflict between their moral principles and their actions?

Cognitive dissonance
Moral dilemma
Conformity
Moral distress

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