An Introduction to Psychology

1. An Introduction to Psychology

2. 1. Some people dream every night; others seldom dream • True • False

3. 2. Most mothers are depressed for a time after their children grow up and leave home • True • False

4. 3. To be useful, laboratory experiments in psychology must recreate the behaviors of everyday life • True • False

5. 4. Advertisers are able to shape our buying habits through subliminal messages • True • False

6. 5. Psychologists have always agreed that thoughts, feelings, and motives are important in understanding behavior • True • False

7. 6. The amount of information that can be stored in human memory is limited • True • False

8. 7. The most common form of schizophrenia is the split personality, in which a person possesses two or more separate identities • True • False

9. 8. Most people would refuse to obey an authority who told them to hurt an innocent person • True • False

10. 9. If you are truly innocent of committing a crime, you have nothing to fear from taking a lie-detector test • True • False

11. 10. The human brain produces its own natural opiates that ease pain and elevate mood • True • False

12. The Only Fact 10. The human brain produces its own natural opiates that ease pain and elevate mood