General Psych Grab Bag Trivia Quiz

Answer: Broca's aphasia

People with Broca's aphasia have difficulty with speech. Phrases are halting, not fluent, and often grammatically incorrect. Broca's area is found in the frontal lobe of the brain.

Answer: Bandura

Bandura used the Bobo doll to research aggression in children. When the children were first exposed to the Bobo doll, they showed no aggression toward it. Only after showing them an adult beating the Bobo doll did the kids show aggression.

Answer: PTSD

PTSD stands for post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is caused by a certain event in a person's life, such as child abuse, rape, warfare, a natural disaster - anything traumatic. Two symptoms of PTSD are anxiety and flashbacks.

Answer: Matching lines of the same length

In this experiment, participants were shown a line, and then three other lines; they were asked to identify which of the 3 lines matched the first one. When other people in the room kept picking the wrong line, one-third of the subjects conformed and gave the incorrect answer even though the correct one was clear to anyone with normal vision.

Answer: Zimbardo

This experiment broke a group of 24 undergraduate college students in half. 12 would be prisoners, and 12 would be guards. Although they were all judged to be "normal," stable individuals, those who were guards humiliated and tormented the prisoners, and the prisoners accepted this treatment. The experiment was supposed to go on for two weeks, but it was shut down after six days.

Answer: extinction

Classical conditioning was discovered accidentally by Pavlov during another experiment. Classical conditioning originally occurs when an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) is paired with a neutral stimulus (NS) so that the response to the UCS becomes the response to the NS. The NS becomes a conditioned stimulus at that point, as the unconditioned response becomes a conditioned response.

Answer: alarm, resistance, exhaustion

General adaptation syndrome describes how the body reacts to stress. The first stage the body enters is the alarm stage, which is the fight-or-flight response. The body gets ready to do what it needs to do to deal with a stressful situation by suppressing immune and digestive systems and calling on adrenaline.

Answer: Tolman

Tolman discovered latent learning during an experiment in which rats learned their way through a maze. Some rats were rewarded for finishing the maze, and some rats were not. When the rats who were not reinforced were eventually given incentive, they finished the maze quickly. They had learned the correct path but had had no reason to express it before given an incentive.

Answer: corpus callosum

The corpus callosum - a structure which connects the two hemispheres of the brain - is severed in a split-brain operation. This operation is performed to reduce the effects of epilepsy.

Answer: retrograde amnesia

Injury-causing trauma causes retrograde amnesia. The memory can be "jogged." Typically, more distant memories are remembered more easily than things that happened closer to the time of the trauma.