Fact or Falsehood? Prior-to-reading Modules 1, 2 & 5 Quiz

1. Psychology is best defined today as the study of mental life.
2. Psychiatry is a branch of psychology that involves the assessment and treatment of psychological disorders.
3. Human intuition is remarkably accurate and free from error.
4. Most people seem to lack confidence in the accuracy of their beliefs.
5. Because individuals are rarely alike, case studies tell us little about human behavior.
6. The opinions of 1500 randomly selected people can provide a very accurate picture of the opinions of an entire nation.
7. The scientific finding that children who watch violence on television tend to be violent proves that viewing violence causes it.
8. The purpose of the experiment is to re-create behaviors exactly as they occur in everyday life.
9. As a science, psychology is objective and value-free.
10. The best way to study is to cover each subject all at one time.
11. Adoptees’ traits bear more similarities to their adoptive parents than to their biological parents.
12. The most emotionally intense preschoolers tend to be relatively intense adults.
13. Two children in the same family are on average as different from one another as are pairs of children selected randomly from the population.
14. A child who hears English spoken with one accent at home and another in the neighborhood and at school will invariably adopt the accent of his or her peers, not the parents.
15. Compared with Westerners, people in Japanese cultures exhibit greater concern for social harmony and loyalty.