Mind & society
The “Famous psychology experiments” quiz — Mind & society. It has 25 questions in five categories: Crowd & Authority, Animals in the Lab, Growing Minds, Attention & Memory, Dilemmas & Choices. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
In Stanley Milgram's 1961 Yale obedience experiment, volunteers thought they were delivering painful shocks of what?
In the 1971 Stanford prison study, male student volunteers were randomly divided into prisoners and what other role?
Solomon Asch tested conformity…
In the gameWhen smoke filled a…
In the gameMuzafer Sherif resolved camp…
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To discover the Law of Effect in 1898, Edward Thorndike timed how quickly which pets escaped from wooden puzzle boxes?
When B. F. Skinner dropped grain into cages at random times, what irrational human habit did his pigeons develop?
Harry Harlow showed infant…
In the gameWolfgang Köhler showed animal…
In the gameAnimals exposed to inescapable…
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Stanford researchers offered preschoolers one treat now or two if they waited fifteen minutes, measuring their what?
Albert Bandura found children aggressively attacked an inflatable clown doll after watching whom beat it up first?
Crawling infants refused to…
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In the gameWhen Little Albert's fear…
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While counting basketball passes in a 1999 study, half of viewers missed a person walking past in what animal suit?
What named effect explains the delay in reaction time when naming the ink color of a word that spells a different color?
Witnesses to a car…
In the gameTo plot the forgetting…
In the gameGeorge Miller's 1956 paper…
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In Philippa Foot's trolley problem, pulling a switch diverts a runaway streetcar away from five people to hit how many?
A supermarket booth with 24 flavors of which fruit spread drew crowds but made far fewer sales than a booth with six?
Paid just one dollar…
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.