5 Psychology Trivia Questions (Day 1)

For the next 24 days, we will share with you some psychology trivia questions and psychology jokes we found online. We hope you enjoy them!

1. What “B” psychological verb means to lead someone on or keep their hopes up through small acts of enticement that will lead to disappointment? It is the name of the item that Hansel and Gretel used to mark their path back home…before birds ate it.

2. Known for its "Twelve Steps" and “Twelve Traditions” guidelines for keeping clean, Bill Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith founded what alliterative support group in 1935, which launched one of its first meetings in Akron, Ohio?

3. The BDI is a "depression inventory" named for an American psychiatrist with what surname and presumably no relation to the singer of '90s indie hit "Loser"?

4. In 2018, what much-decorated Team USA Olympic swimmer went public on the benefits of therapy with an ad campaign for the app Talkspace?

5. Bipolar disorder is characterized by periods of depression or low mood that alternate with episodes of mood elevation, which is referred to using which "M" word?

Answers

1: Breadcrumb

2: Alcoholics Anonymous

3: Beck

4: Michael Phelps

5: Mania

Psychology Joke of the Day:

1. What’s the difference between the psychiatrists and the patients at the mental hospital? The patients are the ones that eventually get better and go home!

(Joke by Patients versus Psychiatrists)

– From the Watercoolertrivia.com article “119 Psychology Trivia Questions Ranked from Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)” at www.watercoolertrivia.com/trivia-questions/psychology-trivia-questions and a compilation by David Deslauriers at www.linkedin.com/pulse/twenty-mental-health-jokes-humorous-quotes-david-deslauriers