Top Ten Psychology Myths: Busted

The Rorschach inkblot test a valid measure of personality.

• True
• False

 People can recover from a chronic mental illness such as schizophrenia.

• True
• False

Personality is "set in stone" by age 30.

• True 
• False

What percentage of our brains do we use? 

• 10%
• 50%
• 75%
• nearly 100%

Listening to Mozart can improve your performance on an IQ test? 

• True 
• False

Experiencing déjà vu means that you are clairvoyant.

• True 
• False

We learn more effectively when taught via our preferred “learning style”

• True 
• False

 You can tell if someone is lying my simply looking at their body language? 

• True
• False

The Stanford Prison Experiment shows how the wrong situation can turn anyone bad

• True
• False

Psychology is based on testable empirical predictions where these predictions are tested tightly controlled experimental studies. 

• True 
• False