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Conceptions of Psychology: A Short Quiz

Read each statement below and decide whether you think it is true or false.

1. To change people's behavior toward members of ethnic minority groups, research has shown that we must first change their attitudes.

2. Recent studies have shown that, by feeling people's faces, blind people can accurately visualize how they look in their minds.

3. Fortunately for babies, human beings have a strong maternal instinct.

4. By giving a young baby lots of extra stimulation (e.g., mobiles and musical toys), we can markedly increase his or her intelligence.

5. Boys and girls exhibit no behavioral differences until environmental influences begin to produce such differences.

6. The high correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer proves that smoking causes lung cancer.

7. Most mentally ill people are violent.

8. A large proportion of criminals successfully use the Insanity Defense.

9. Opposites attract: We are most romantically attracted to people who differ from us.

10. Most people who were severely traumatized in childhood develop mental disorders in adulthood.