We only use about 10% of our brain at any one time.
How many times have I heard that in the press about
dealing with the brain in psychology?
In fact, our brains are active all the time.
In fact, a neuron, when it's not producing a message going down the neuron,
is already activated.
It's polarized at -70 millivolts.
So we use our brains.
It wouldn't make sense or
be adaptive if we only used 10% of our brain at any one time, false.
13, shock treatment is now used for people with severe anxiety.
Well shock treatment is still used, but
it's used as a last resort for very serious psychopathologies and
certainly not used for anxieties and phobias, false.
14, to better control behavior, reinforcement should be applied
consistently, every time the behavior occurs.
In fact one of the biggest things about reinforcement and
behaviour is that the partial reinforcement effect.
Behavior is better controlled if you reinforce only
a partial number of the correct behaviors, not every time it occurs, false.
Question 15, a person with schizophrenia has a split personality.
Split personality is actually called associative syndrome and
not schizophrenia.
In schizophrenia you don't have a split personality,
it's just that you have split from reality that everybody else experiences.
This is false.
16, opposite types of people attract each other.
Well actually the matching services that are advertised on television know this
is false, because in fact, people that are alike are attracted to each other.
You tend to look more at common things you share,
rather than things that you do not share.
17, psychologists are trained to be therapists.
Well I'm a psychologist and I've never had one minute of training to be
a therapist and in fact, the last person you want to be your therapist is me.
So false, psychology is a very broad discipline and
you're trained to do many different things.
And with some psychologists, clinical psychologists, it includes therapy.
18, old people become senile if they live long enough.
This implies that senility, or
as we would say, dementia, occurs simply as an age effect.
When dementia is a disease, and you either get the disease or
you don't get the disease.
It's true that age is related to the probability of developing dementia.
The older you are the more the likelihood you would develop dementia.
But it's a disease.
And not everybody does it.
Even people above 85, only about 20% of the people have serious dementia, false.
19, people who threaten suicide are rarely the ones who commit suicide.
In fact, if you have a friend, or colleague that's threatening suicide,
take it seriously.
Because that is a reaching out of someone who is in pain and
the probability of committing suicide is actually greater If
people know that you've threatened suicide in the past, false.
20, most cases of color blindness can be cured by diet.
Well, currants might help you see, but
color blindness is not related to diet, false.
21, only humans use tools.