Introduction to Psychology Quiz

Who introduced the concept of the unconscious and the Oedipus complex?

• BF Skinner

• Leon Festinger

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

Which psychologist explored the roots of prejudice and influenced the American civil rights movement?

• Gordon Allport

• Philip Zimbardo

• Stanley Milgram

• Abraham Maslow

Which psychologist is known for the hierarchy of needs pyramid?

• Abraham Maslow

• Sigmund Freud

• Leon Festinger

• William James

Who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment?

• Gordon Allport

• Stanley Milgram

• BF Skinner

• Philip Zimbardo

Which psychologist focused on the theory of cognitive dissonance?

• Abraham Maslow

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

• Leon Festinger

Who questioned whether machines can think and challenged human exceptionalism?

• Hippocrates

• Aristotle

• Alan Turing

• Plato

Which psychologist's research showed that a majority of subjects were willing to electrocute strangers when ordered to do so?

• Stanley Milgram

• Philip Zimbardo

• Abraham Maslow

• Gordon Allport

Who laid the basis for understanding classical Pavlovian conditioning?

• BF Skinner

• William James

• Leon Festinger

• Ivan Pavlov

Which philosopher addressed the workings of the mind in the 4th century BC?

• Lao Tzu

• Hippocrates

• Plato

• Confucius

Who founded the first laboratory dedicated to psychological research in Leipzig in 1879?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• BF Skinner

• William James

• Sigmund Freud