Psychological Processes and Concepts Quiz

Test your knowledge of cognitive psychology with questions on memory stages, conditioning, Freudian theory, personality traits, and more!

#1

Which neurotransmitter is primarily associated with pleasure and reward?

Serotonin
Dopamine
Acetylcholine
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
#2

Who developed the theory of cognitive development, which includes the stages of sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?

Jean Piaget
Erik Erikson
Lev Vygotsky
Lawrence Kohlberg
#3

According to the Big Five personality traits, which trait describes the tendency to be organized, responsible, and dependable?

Extraversion
Agreeableness
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
#4

Which of the following best defines classical conditioning?

Learning through reinforcement
Learning through observation
Learning through association
Learning through punishment
#5

Who proposed the hierarchy of needs, which includes physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization?

Albert Bandura
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
B. F. Skinner
#6

What is the term for the phenomenon where people's behavior is influenced by the presence and actions of others?

Socialization
Social cognition
Social influence
Social learning
#7

Which of the following is NOT a stage of memory according to the Information Processing Model?

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Interference
#8

What is the concept that refers to the tendency to recall the first and last items in a list more easily than those in the middle?

Serial position effect
Recency effect
Primacy effect
Regency effect
#9

What term describes the phenomenon where people are more likely to remember information that is personally relevant to them?

Encoding specificity
Self-reference effect
Depth of processing
Cognitive dissonance
#10

What is the term for the tendency to attribute one's own thoughts, feelings, and motives to others?

Projection
Introjection
Displacement
Reaction formation
#11

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

Group polarization
Groupthink
Social loafing
Conformity
#12

What is the term for the phenomenon where the presence of others inhibits individual performance, leading to a tendency to perform worse on simple tasks and better on complex tasks?

Social facilitation
Social inhibition
Social comparison
Social impairment
#13

According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, which part of the mind operates on the pleasure principle?

Ego
Superego
Id
Subconscious

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