Psychological Concepts and Interventions Quiz

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#1

Which psychological concept refers to the tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list more effectively than those in the middle or at the end?

Primacy effect
Recency effect
Serial position effect
Confirmation bias
#2

What is the term used to describe the tendency for individuals to conform to the majority opinion, even if it goes against their own beliefs or values?

Group polarization
Groupthink
Social loafing
Conformity
#3

What term describes the phenomenon where individuals exert less effort when working collectively on a task compared to when working individually?

Social facilitation
Groupthink
Social loafing
Deindividuation
#4

What term refers to the tendency to focus on information that confirms preexisting beliefs or hypotheses while ignoring or discounting contradictory evidence?

Confirmation bias
Availability heuristic
Representativeness heuristic
Anchoring bias
#5

Which psychological perspective emphasizes the role of unconscious conflicts and childhood experiences in shaping personality and behavior?

Cognitive perspective
Humanistic perspective
Biological perspective
Psychodynamic perspective
#6

Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, suggesting that intelligence is not a single, fixed attribute, but rather a range of different modalities?

Albert Bandura
Jean Piaget
Howard Gardner
Erik Erikson
#7

What psychological concept describes the tendency for individuals to attribute their successes to internal factors and their failures to external factors?

Self-efficacy
Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
#8

Which therapeutic approach emphasizes the importance of understanding an individual's subjective experience and personal meaning?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic Therapy
Behavioral Therapy
#9

Who is often referred to as the 'Father of Psychology' and established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879?

B.F. Skinner
William James
Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Wundt
#10

What term describes the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events that are easier to recall from memory, often due to their vividness or recent occurrence?

Availability heuristic
Representativeness heuristic
Anchoring heuristic
Confirmation bias
#11

Which psychological perspective emphasizes the influence of unconscious processes and childhood experiences on behavior?

Behavioral perspective
Cognitive perspective
Psychodynamic perspective
Humanistic perspective
#12

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which need must be satisfied first before an individual can progress to fulfilling higher-level needs such as esteem and self-actualization?

Safety needs
Physiological needs
Love and belongingness needs
Esteem needs
#13

What term refers to the process by which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response?

Operant conditioning
Classical conditioning
Social learning
Reinforcement
#14

Who is credited with developing the concept of operant conditioning, which involves learning through the consequences of one's actions?

Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
John B. Watson
#15

According to Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory, what is the primary developmental task during adolescence?

Trust vs. mistrust
Identity vs. role confusion
Integrity vs. despair
Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
#16

Who developed the concept of social learning theory, which emphasizes the importance of observational learning and cognitive factors in behavior?

B.F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson

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