Psychological Phenomena and Behaviors Quiz

Explore cognitive dissonance, social conformity, and more. Test yourself with 13 questions on key psychological concepts.

#1

What is the definition of cognitive dissonance?

The tendency to remember past events more positively than they actually were.
The mental discomfort experienced when holding conflicting beliefs or attitudes.
The process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information in memory.
The tendency to conform to group norms in order to fit in.
#2

Which neurotransmitter is commonly associated with feelings of pleasure and reward?

Dopamine
Serotonin
Endorphins
GABA
#3

Who is known for proposing the hierarchy of needs, suggesting that human needs are arranged in a hierarchy from basic physiological needs to higher-order psychological needs?

Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
B.F. Skinner
Erik Erikson
#4

Who is credited with developing classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs, which involved pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to evoke a conditioned response?

B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Albert Bandura
John Watson
#5

Who proposed the theory of operant conditioning, which emphasizes the role of reinforcement and punishment in shaping behavior?

B.F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
John Watson
Albert Bandura
#6

Which term refers to the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily similar instances can be retrieved from memory?

Availability heuristic
Representativeness heuristic
Anchoring bias
Hindsight bias
#7

What is the Stanford prison experiment?

A study investigating the effects of authority and conformity conducted by Stanley Milgram.
A study exploring the impact of social roles on behavior conducted by Philip Zimbardo.
A study examining the influence of groupthink on decision-making conducted by Irving Janis.
A study investigating the effects of stress on memory conducted by Elizabeth Loftus.
#8

What is the term for the tendency to attribute others' behavior to internal factors while attributing our own behavior to external factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Actor-observer bias
Confirmation bias
#9

What is the term for the tendency to perceive a relationship between coincidental events, even when no such relationship exists?

Confirmation bias
Illusory correlation
Cognitive dissonance
Hindsight bias
#10

Which psychological theory proposes that behavior is influenced by both the person and the environment, and that the interaction between the two shapes behavior?

Biopsychosocial theory
Behaviorism
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic psychology
#11

What is the term for the tendency to rely on pre-existing beliefs and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence?

Cognitive dissonance
Confirmation bias
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
#12

Which term describes the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events that are readily available in memory?

Representativeness heuristic
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
Confirmation bias
#13

What is the name of the phenomenon where individuals in a group tend to exert less effort when working collectively compared to when working alone?

Social loafing
Group polarization
Deindividuation
Groupthink

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