Fact or Falsehood?

Psychologists have always defined their discipline as the study of mental processes and experience

• True

• False

To be useful, laboratory experiments in psychology must re-create the behaviours of everyday life

• True

• False

The human brain produces its own natural opiates that ease pain and elevate mood

• True

• False

Some people dream every night; others seldom dream

• True

• False

Psychologists have been able to breed rats to be serene or reactive, quick learners or slow learners

• True

• False

The sequence of motor development in infancy varies by culture and by era

• True

• False

Psychological research clearly indicates that some people DO have ESP (extrasensory perception)

• True

• False

The greater the reward promised for performing an activity, the more one will come to enjoy the activity

• True

• False

The amount of information that can be stored in human memory is limited

• True

• False

Heredity, not environment, determines one's score on an intelligence test

• True

• False