Q 01/05

In the Milgram experiment, participants believed they were administering what to a 'learner'?

A) Sleep deprivation

B) Verbal insults

C) Cold-water immersion

D) Electric shocks

Answer · why

D) Electric shocks

Electric shocks were faked and the 'learner' was an actor; psychiatrists polled beforehand predicted about one person in a thousand would reach the 45...

Q 02/05

Many soldiers diagnosed with 'shell shock' in World War I would today be said to have which disorder?

A) Panic disorder

B) Post-traumatic stress disorder

C) Generalised anxiety disorder

D) Major depressive disorder

Answer · why

B) Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder became an official diagnosis only in 1980; doctors first blamed 'shell shock' on blasts shaking the brain, until the sa...

Q 03/05

Which 1971 Philip Zimbardo experiment was stopped after only six days because of how its volunteers behaved?

A) Stanford Prison

B) Robbers Cave

C) Little Albert

D) Strange Situation

Answer · why

A) Stanford Prison

Stanford Prison was planned to run two weeks; Zimbardo halted it after psychologist Christina Maslach, brought in to interview participants, confronte...

Q 04/05

Which of the following is one of the 'Big Five' personality traits?

A) Conscientiousness

B) Perfectionism

C) Competitiveness

D) Sensation-seeking

Answer · why

A) Conscientiousness

Conscientiousness joins openness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism in the OCEAN mnemonic; people who score high on it tend to earn better g...

Q 05/05

The concept of classical conditioning is most famously associated with which researcher?

A) B.F. Skinner

B) Albert Bandura

C) Jean Piaget

D) Ivan Pavlov

Answer · why

D) Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate at a neutral signal paired with food; his 1904 Nobel Prize was actually for work on the physiology of digestion...