Chapter 39: Quiz

1. Which of the following is WELL-ESTABLISHED in psychology? - A) Social priming effects - B) Ego depletion - C) CBT's effectiveness for anxiety and depression - D) Love language matching improves relationships

Answer: C. CBT has robust meta-analytic evidence. The others are debunked or unsupported.

2. Which question is GENUINELY UNRESOLVED? - A) Whether the Big Five is valid (it is) - B) Whether social media causes teen depression (genuinely debated) - C) Whether exercise improves mood (it does) - D) Whether we use 10% of our brains (debunked)

Answer: B. The social media-depression question has legitimate scientific disagreement.

3. The replication crisis means: - A) All psychology is fake - B) The pre-crisis literature had significant reliability problems, but reforms (pre-registration, Registered Reports) are improving new research — the field is healthier than before - C) Only post-2015 studies are valid - D) Psychology should be abandoned

Answer: B. The crisis was real; the recovery is also real.

4. The WEIRD bias means: - A) Psychology studies weird people - B) Most psychology research uses Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic populations — limiting generalizability to the other 88% of humanity - C) All psychology findings are wrong - D) Only American findings are valid

Answer: B. How much of what we "know" generalizes globally is genuinely uncertain.

5. A well-calibrated reader of this book should: - A) Trust nothing about psychology - B) Trust everything about psychology - C) Have confidence levels that roughly match the evidence strength — high confidence for well-replicated findings, moderate for partially supported claims, and low for debunked or unresolved ones - D) Have no opinions

Answer: C. Calibration — matching confidence to evidence strength — is the core skill.