WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY?
Answer the following questions T or F (true or false).
1. People usually fall in love with someone very different from themselves. Put another
way, opposites attract.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
2. Everyone dreams.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
F
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
3. When you burn your hand, the neural information travels to your brain at nearly the
speed of light.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
F
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
4. Most people would be willing to administer a near-fatal electric shock to another
person if an experimenter told them to do so.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
5. People with one eye can still see in three dimensions.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
F
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
6. It is an optical illusion when the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does
overhead.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
7. Homosexuality is a mental disorder.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
8. Blind people have a more sensitive sense of hearing and touch.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
F
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
9. Hypnosis can help people accurately recall a crime scene.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
10. In human beings, the part of the brain corresponding to the mouth is bigger than the
brain area corresponding to the entire leg.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
F
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
11. Animals process information in the same way that people do.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
12. A well-trained psychologist can determine a personàhidden problems by analyzing his
or her dreams.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
13. Split personality is one of the most severe forms of schizophrenia.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
14. We experience stress when good things as well as bad things happen to us.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
15. If you want a person to continue performing some action, you should reward the action
on a consistent basis.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
16. Women use both hemispheres (halves) of their brain to listen and men only use one, so
women must be better listeners than men are.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
T
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.
17. Playing classical music (such as Mozart) for a young infant will increase in his or her IQ.
What do you think now?
What did you think at the beginning of the semester?
F
Why? Please explain in a couple of sentences.

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