PSYCHOLOGY PODCAST
PSYCHOLOGY – Introduction MRS. IMBOREK
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DIRECTIONS: Test your intuitions about behavior by answering true or false to the statements below
|_____________ |Children must learn compassion by age 6 in order to be a functional, caring adult. |
|_____________ |A child learns to communicate before speech has been developed. |
|_____________ |If you dream about your teeth falling out- it means you are worried about money. |
|_____________ |Highly intelligent people, geniuses, tend to be physically frail and socially isolated. |
|_____________ |Ordinary, everyday, people can be “persuaded” to commit murder. |
|_____________ |Your left side of the brain controls your right side of your body. |
|_____________ |The people suffering from psychological disorders are dangerous. |
|_____________ |The lumps and folds felt on your skull can detect intelligence and/or potential psychological problems. |
|_____________ |You can “train” you pupils to dilate on command. |
|_____________ |You can survive a metal rod going through your frontal lobe; but not the temporal lobe. |
|_____________ |Subliminal messages can be used to persuade others to purchase products. |
|_____________ |The best way to get a chronically noisy child to settle down and pay attention is to punish him or her. |
|_____________ |Parents have the biggest impact on teenagers. |
|_____________ |Individuals can learn information (e.g. a new language) while asleep. |
|_____________ |It has been found that most murderers have the same mental illness. |
|_____________ |You are more likely to survive a gunshot to the head if the bullet travels front to back rather than side to side. |
|_____________ |Human memory works like a tape recorder or video camera, and accurately records the events we have experienced. |
|_____________ |Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. |
|_____________ |Some adults were abused as children but do not remember the abuse. |
|_____________ |Hypnosis is useful for retrieving memories of forgotten events. |
|_____________ |If you do not learn to speak as a child, you will never learn to speak properly. |
|_____________ |Playing classical music (e.g., Mozart) to infants and children increases their intelligence. |
|_____________ |Peek-a-boo is exciting for babies because they are laughing at the fact you look like a fool. |
|_____________ |In the middle ages, a hole in the skull was believed to cure “demonic” presences. |
|_____________ |A baby’s attachment for its mother is based on mom’s filling the physiological need for food. |
|_____________ |If you live long enough, and you don’t exercise your brain, you will eventually develop dementia. |
|_____________ |The polygraph (“lie detector”) test is a highly accurate means of detecting dishonesty and often used in court to |
| |prosecute people. |
|_____________ |It is generally better to express anger openly than to hold it in. |
|_____________ |High self-esteem is necessary for high achievement. |
|_____________ |Most people with amnesia forget all the details of their earlier lives. |
|_____________ |People diagnosed with schizophrenia have a split personality. |
|_____________ |People who are seen looking down at the floor at airports and profiled as potential terrorists. |
|_____________ |“Psychological profiling” has been shown to be an effective means of identifying terrorists. |
|_____________ |A large proportion of criminals are acquitted on the basis of the insanity defense. |
|_____________ |Cocaine was once used as the “intelligence” drug. |
|_____________ |It is believed that, if you are a perfectionist, you struggled during potty training. |
|_____________ |All effective psychotherapies force individuals to confront the “root” causes of their problems in childhood. |
|_____________ |Electroconvulsive (“shock”) therapy is a physically dangerous treatment and no longer used. |
|_____________ |Love and comfort is a basic need; more important than food. |
|_____________ |There’s safety in numbers: The more people present at an emergency, the greater the chance that someone will |
| |intervene. |
_____________ 41. It is possible to survive with one hemisphere of your brain.
_____________ 42. It is legal to perform dangerous experiments as long as it is legitimate research.
_______________ 43. One of the first signs of potential serial killer is cruelty to animals.
_______________ 44. Emotions are universal (all over the world- people will be able to recognize what you are feeling.)
_______________ 45. Your brain is fully developed by the time you are 18 years old.
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