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Can You Answer These Basic Psychology Questions?

The [definition](http://people.clarkson.edu/~awilke/Research_files/EoHB_Wilke_12.pdf) of confirmation bias is: "The tendency to selectively search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions or hypotheses."

Gotta be careful of those preconceived notions!

The temporal lobe is about that [auditory processing](https://books.google.com/books?dq=isbn%3A9781429237192&hl=en&id=emAyzTNy1cUC&printsec=frontcover&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMItrSWsZfZxwIVSTKICh1OQAmh#v=onepage&q=temporal%20lobe&f=false)!

Two pretty important things!

With [induction](http://ocw.usu.edu/English/introduction-to-writing-academic-prose/inductive-and-deductive-reasoning.html): "You begin with some data, and then determine what general conclusion(s) can logically be derived from those data."

That's some poor induction, right there!

Not a universally accepted notion by any means today, these different [aspects](https://books.google.com/books?dq=Id%2C+Ego%2C+and+Superego&hl=en&id=g0QQtlJSyOEC&pg=PA422&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAWoVChMIxtGTp5rZxwIVkCWICh2tSwSL#v=onepage&q=Id,%20Ego,%20and%20Superego&f=false) of the human psyche were a major part of Freud's psychoanalytic methodology.

Id, Ego, and Superego

Also known as the [DSM](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890425558/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_i=0890420254&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=1944687442&pf_rd_r=19BMDZQKJSJGEM0GHT1T&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201).

From the [NIH](http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/psychotherapies/index.shtml): "CBT helps a person focus on his or her current problems and how to solve them. Both patient and therapist need to be actively involved in this process. The therapist helps the patient learn how to identify distorted or unhelpful thinking patterns, recognize and change inaccurate beliefs, relate to others in more positive ways, and change behaviors accordingly."

CBT is all about changing thought patterns and behaviors.

[Extrinsic motivation](https://books.google.com/books?dq=extrinsic+motivation&hl=en&id=uM10geBB8o4C&printsec=frontcover&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMI_Pawrp7ZxwIVgTqICh1pTgmz#v=onepage&q=extrinsic%20motivation&f=false) means you are doing something not because of the activity itself, but to prevent a punishment or to gain a reward. The opposite of this is intrinsic motivation.

Nobody likes driving to the airport, anyway...

From [Encyclopedia Brittanica](http://www.britannica.com/topic/projection-psychology): "Projection is a form of defense in which unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they then appear as a threat from the external world. A common form of projection occurs when an individual, threatened by his own angry feelings, accuses another of harbouring hostile thoughts."

Stop projecting onto me, bro!

Sure, you don’t know a lot of the answers to these questions. But who can really claim to “know” how consciousness works anyway? A damn fool, that’s who.

What is knowledge, anyway?

You are either really good at using logic to get through questions you don’t know the answer to or you took basic psych classes at some point in your pretty distant past.

Not too bad!

You know your shit when it comes to basic psychology. And no, that is not an anal retention pun.

Freud himself would be proud!

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