Test of Psychology Knowledge

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Please indicate whether you believe each statement is true or false.

1. Most people use only about 10 percent of their brain capacity. *

True

False

2. Newborn babies are virtually blind and deaf. *

True

False

3. Hypnosis enhances the accuracy of our memories. *

True

False

4. All people with dyslexia see words backward (like tac instead of cat). *

True

False

5. In general, it's better to express anger than to hold it in. *

True

False

6. The lie-detector (polygraph) test is 90-95% *

True

False

7. People tend to be romantically attracted to individuals who are opposite them in personality and attitudes. *

True

False

8. The more people present at an emergency, the more likely it is that at least one of them will help. *

True

False

9. People with schizophrenia have more than one personality. *

True

False

10. All effective psychotherapies require clients to get to the root of their problems in childhood. *

True

False

This Test of Popular Psychology Knowledge was originally published in Lilienfield, Lynn, Namy, and Woolf (2014)

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