Psychology Quiz

How much do you know about psychology?
Quiz by
camus
Rate:
Last updated: December 18, 2018
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
First submittedDecember 18, 2018
Times taken5,309
Average score66.7%
Rating4.26
Report this quizReport
5:00
Enter answer here
0
 / 15 guessed
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
Hint
Answer
Credited for being the father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Quote by the same person, about phallic symbols: "Sometimes, a ___ is just a ___."
Cigar
What, along with id and ego, is part of the structural model of the psyche?
Super-ego
What are you afraid of if you have arachnophobia?
Spiders
Who conditioned dogs to salivate at the ring of a bell?
Ivan Pavlov
Test with inkblots
Rorschach test
What kind of drug are prozac and zoloft?
Antidepressant
Disease that causes most cases of dementia
Alzheimer's
Complex named for a greek king who killed his father and slept with his mother
Oedipus complex
What kind of disorder did Dustin Hoffman have in "Rain Man"?
Autism
What is a polygraph colloquially known as?
Lie detector
Which outdated procedure involves severing connections in the frontal cortex?
Lobotomy
Zimbardo's experiment in which randomly assigned "guards" allegedly tortured "prisoners"
Stanford experiment
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance are the five stages of ...?
Grief
What does "IQ" stand for?
Intelligence Quotient
Save Your Stats
Your Next Quiz
Beat the clock by answering these fifty randomly-generated multiplication problems.
Can you name these classic novels, based on a description of their plots?
For each item, answer whether one would eat it, wear it, or drive it.
Click all the landlocked countries without clicking any countries which border the sea.
4 Comments
+1
Level 95
Oct 8, 2021
Good quiz
+1
Level 24
Mar 11, 2023
really fun quiz
+2
Level 65
Jul 21, 2025
It's funny that we think of dogs and bells whenever we hear the name Pavlov
+1
Level 69
Jul 22, 2025
Got 100, but arguably some of these are more psychiatry than psychology - eg anti depressants