A fairly general quiz with emphasis on Psychology conducted in Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi

2. Conducted By
Kartik Krishnan
Rishabh Gogoi
Special Thanks to
Rabin Jacob
Adil Jacob
Ishaan Watts

3. Q.1
• The couch in picture was gifted
to a certain individual by a
grateful female patient
Madame Benvenisti, that
initiated a particularly
revolutionary branch in a field
this person in question began.
Who was gifted this couch?

4. ANSWER:
Sigmund Freud

5. Q.2*
• The ______ effect is a common psychological
phenomenon whereby individuals give high
accuracy ratings to descriptions of their
personality that supposedly are tailored
specifically to them but that are, in fact, vague and
general enough to apply to a wide range of
people.
• Named after an American showman (pic on your
right) widely, but erroneously, who is credited
with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born
every minute"
• FITB with his surname.

6. ANSWER:
The Burnam Effect

7. Q.3
• The model was first introduced by
Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-
Ross in her 1969 book On Death and
Dying, and was inspired by her work
with terminally ill patients.
• The model postulates a progression
of emotional states experienced by
both terminally ill patients after
diagnosis and by loved-ones after a
death.
• What is the generic name for the
5 stage model in question?

8. ANSWER:

9. Q.4
• In the 1960s Ray Kroc, the legendary entrepreneur who built Y from a
local chain to a fast food giant, had recently taken over as president of
the company and was tearing down and rebuilding restaurants in an
effort to make them uniform.
• In so doing, he was demolishing something which is now iconic. But Louis
Cheskin, who was hired by the firm as a design consultant, argued that
the -------- should stay in place as a logo. Cheskin insisted that they
resembled breasts, claiming that they held a Freudian pull for
customers. He is even quoted to have said that the rounded design
represents mummy's mammaries.
• ID the iconic logo in question.

10. ANSWER:
McDonald’s Arches

11. Q.5
•Options to join the military for disabled people are very
limited. One occasion where they were hired by the US
Army is during the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
•During the war, the US Army hired colour blind people
for a very specific reason. What was the reason?

12. ANSWER:
The camouflage stood out for the colour blind
people and they could easily spot snipers.

13. Q.6
• The Siege of Leningrad, also known as
the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged
military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers.
• The siege caused severe of shortage of food and
other resources in the city of Leningrad. So dire
was the situation that residents had started
resorting to cannibalism.
• These residents included staff at the Leningrad
Physiological Institute, who killed and consumed
some animals to prolong their own lives until the
siege was lifted.
• What was the claim to fame of these animals who
some people in the Orient might consider “mouth
watering “ delicacies in their own right?
The name of this 1970s
progressive rock band is a
giveaway

14. ANSWER:
Pavlov’s Dog

15. Q.7*
• The _________ test is a psychological test in
which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are
recorded and then analysed
using psychological interpretation,
complex algorithms, or both.
It has been employed to detect
underlying thought disorder, especially in
cases where patients are reluctant to
describe their thinking processes openly.
• The test is named after its creator, Swiss
psychologist Hermann
_________ .
• FITB

16. ANSWER:
Rorschach

17. Q.8
• In an interview with Entertainment Weekly,
Matt Groening (pic of the person to your
right) explained his original plan for Y:
• The original idea behind Y was that he was X
in disguise, but X still couldn’t get any
respect from his son, who worshipped Y. If
you look at Y, it’s just X with extended hair
and a tuft on his head. We were in such a
rush in the beginning of the series that I
thought, ‘Oh, it’s too complicated,’ so we
just dropped it. But when I look at Y, I think,
‘Yeah — that’s X.
• ID X and Y

18. ANSWER:
• X= Homer Simpson
• Y= Krusty Krab

19. Q.9
• The word is derived from the Old English word for a
mythological demon or goblin who torments others with
frightening dreams, which, in turn is derived from mara, a
Scandinavian mythological term referring to a spirit sent to
torment or suffocate sleepers.
Subsequently, the prefix "-------" was added to stress the dream
aspect. the word is again . The early meaning of the word included
the sleeper's experience of weight on the chest combined
with sleep paralysis, dyspnoea, or a feeling of dread.
• Which horrifying word?

20. ANSWER:
Nightmare

21. Q.10
• The booster seat with a 4” thick cushion shown in the image (next slide) was
used recently by someone who is 5’7.”
• Studies show that sitting tall gives you a personal boost and earns you the
respect of others – taller people make more money, are rated higher in work
performance, and are viewed as more effective leaders.
• Timothy Judge, Ph.D., a University of Florida management professor who
studies height advantages said in a statement in 2003. “Although that was
thousands of years ago, evolutionary psychologists would argue that some of
those old patterns still operate in our perceptions today.”
• Studies demonstrate that when a person sits with their back straight and
their chest out, they report feeling more confident. Slouching, meanwhile,
tends to make people doubt themselves.
• Where was this chair used, probably as a way to muster some courage and
avoid being booked and losing face?

23. ANSWER:
Zuckerberg testimony

24. Q.11*
• If you pay attention, you would
notice a hand in the bottom right of
this iconic cover
• What/who does it represent, or
rather symbolise?

25. ANSWER:
• It is meant to symbolize the unnamed women who have not
publicly come forward about their experiences but who have
painful stories nonetheless (survivors should never feel obligated
to share their stories).
• "That's an anonymous woman who is a hospital worker who was
experiencing harassment and didn't feel that she could come
forward [publicly]," Charlotte Alter (Time National correspondent)
said.

26. Q.12
• The Placebo effect is when people feel
good/better after consuming
innocuous/ineffective medication just
because they have faith in the
medication's healing process.
• What is the opposite term, when people
get an adverse reaction/feel ill after
consuming ineffective medication, just
because they believe it'll harm them?

27. ANSWER:
Nocebo Effect

28. Q.13
• The late Robert Wilensky, a professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, once said in an interview:
• “So they looked around at who the smartest people were, and they
were themselves, of course. They were all essentially
mathematicians by training, and mathematicians do two things –
they prove theorems and play _____. And they said, hey, if it proves
a theorem or plays _____, it must be smart.”
• The common use of what game for a certain test was he
describing?

29. ANSWER:
Chess as a means of testing
the ‘intelligence’ of AI

30. Q.14
• In Mindswap, Robert Sheckley describes and names two related
psychological syndromes. One is the perception of everyday
objects as rare entities, and the other is the perception of rare
entities as everyday objects.
• After which duo from literature are these syndromes named?

31. ANSWER:
• Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

32. Q.15
• In his paper, published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry(2004),
N.N. Wig writes of a story he often narrates to those patients who
have lost confidence in themselves to meet life's challenges. He
reminds them that the power to change their life rests within them
and that like the hero they have only temporarily lost knowledge of
this powers.
• He subsequently suggested naming this complex of amnesia of
innate power after this epic’s half-simian hero.
• What then would this complex be called?

33. ANSWER:
Hanuman complex

34. Q.16
• These objects may perhaps be one of the most counter-intuitive
security measures.
• They are installed as a measure to prevent people and their
clothing (a design typically adhering to a 9-yard garment in the
Indian subcontinent) from coming too close to the edge of the
mechanism and getting snagged but most people instinctively keep
their feet in contact with them (almost all of us would have done it
at some point in time)
• What is this “security measure” in question?

35. ANSWER:
Escalator Brush Guard

36. Q.17
• in 1929 Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy, published a volume of short stories
titled Everything is Different. One of these pieces was titled "Chains," or "Chain-
Links." According to the story, due to technological advances in
communications and travel, friendship networks could grow larger and span
greater distances.
• In particular, Karinthy believed that the modern world was 'shrinking' due to
this ever-increasing connectedness of human beings. He posited that despite
great physical distances between the globe's individuals, the growing density
of human networks made the actual social distance far smaller.
• This story greatly influenced the idea of X . X is the idea that all living things
and everything else in the world are six or fewer steps away from each other
so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any
two people in a maximum of six steps.
• What concept, which is also the title of the following Will Smith movie?

38. ANSWER:

39. Q.18
What is this device supposed to help with?

40. ANSWER:
• Overcome Smartphone Addiction

41. Q.19
• When the brain perceives a potential threat to survival, it increases
alertness by raising heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate.
• At the same time, the nervous system stimulates the adrenal
glands, which release hormones including adrenaline and cortisol .
Muscle tension (especially in the gut ) helps keep us alert;
perspiration helps cool the body down.
• The smooth stomach muscles are also extra-sensitive during the
fight-or-flight response, and the added sensitivity may be partly to
blame for it.
• Scientific explanation behind which literary phrase?

42. ANSWER:
Butterflies in the stomach

43. Q.20
• In August 2017 the group "Duty to Warn," founded by influential
psychotherapist Dr John Gartner started a petition, which gathered
nearly 60,000 signatures, calling for the removal of X from office due to
"serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of
competently discharging the duties.”
• ID the person in question who has been described as having “the
emotional maturity of a 2 year old”

44. ANSWER:

45. Full answer list:
1. Sigmund Freud
2. Barnum effect
3. 5 stages of Grief
4. Mc.D Arches
5. Camouflage
6. Pavlov’s dogs
7. Rorschach
8. Homer, Krusty
9. Nightmare
10. Z U C C
11. Silence Breakers
12. Nocebo
13. Chess for AI
14. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
15. Hanuman
16. Escalator Brushes
17. 6 Degrees of Seperation
18. Smartphone addiction
19. Butterflies in Stomach
20. Trump