Subject

Psychology

How the mind works - feelings, memory, learning, the brain, and why people do what they do, from your first curiosity to research methods and disorders, one tiny step at a time.

Psychology covers memory, learning, perception, emotion, development, personality, social behaviour, mental health and the research methods the field relies on.

The methods units matter more here than in most subjects. Psychology has had genuine problems with studies that failed to replicate, and knowing how a claim was tested is the difference between understanding the field and repeating pop psychology.

Psychology is the study of the thing doing the studying, which makes it uniquely hard and uniquely useful. It is also the source of most of what is known about how to learn effectively.

Units: 18
Steps: 415
Questions: 2,155

Who this track is for

Secondary level upward, with the research methods units reaching introductory undergraduate standard.

How to approach it

Take the research methods units seriously, they are the backbone
The memory and learning units apply directly to how you study
Be sceptical of any single dramatic finding, including ones you like

Study guide · 9 min readHow to Learn PsychologyPsychology is the one subject that tells you how to learn every other one. A guide to using its own findings on yourself, why the famous studies come with caveats, and how to avoid the trap of it all sounding obvious.

What you will be able to do

Explain why memory is reconstructive and what follows from that
Use spacing and retrieval practice because you know why they work
Say what a correlation does and does not license you to conclude
Recognise a cognitive bias in your own reasoning, occasionally

The thing people get wrong

That psychology confirms what common sense already says. Where it agrees with common sense it is uninteresting; the useful findings are the ones that contradict it, and several of the most famous have themselves failed to replicate.

If you only do 3 units

Memory is the unit with the most immediately usable findings, cognition explains why reasoning goes wrong systematically, and research methods is what lets you judge any psychological claim you meet afterwards.

What the questions look like

8 real questions from across the Psychology track, easiest first, each with the answer and the reason behind it. Every unit page below has thirty more.

Choose all that applyLevel 1
1. Which of these are feelings?
- Sadcorrect
- Scaredcorrect
- Happycorrect
- Pizza
- Cloud
Sad, scared, and happy are feelings, while pizza and cloud are things.
Fill the blankLevel 1
2. In Pavlov's study, the dogs learned to ____ when they heard the bell.
- droolcorrect
- bark
- sleep
- run
The dogs drooled at the bell because their minds had linked the bell with food.
Fill the blankLevel 1
3. The teenage years between childhood and adulthood are called ____.
- adolescencecorrect
- infancy
- retirement
- toddlerhood
Adolescence is the name for the stage between being a child and being an adult.
Odd one outLevel 1
4. Which of these is NOT a cognitive bias?
- Photosynthesiscorrect
- Confirmation bias
- Anchoring
- Hindsight bias
Photosynthesis is a plant process; the others are real thinking biases.
Choose all that applyLevel 2
5. Which of these are ways psychologists study people? Pick all that apply.
- Watching how they behavecorrect
- Asking questions in surveyscorrect
- Doing experimentscorrect
- Guessing with no evidence
Watching behavior, asking questions in surveys, and doing experiments are all real methods.
Fill the blankLevel 2
6. Focusing on your friend's voice in a noisy room is called ____ attention.
- selectivecorrect
- sleepy
- broken
- loud
Selective attention is choosing one thing to focus on and tuning out the rest.
Choose all that applyLevel 2
7. Which of these can help create a false memory? (Pick three)
- Leading questionscorrect
- Someone suggesting it happenedcorrect
- Imagining the event over and overcorrect
- Writing down exactly what you saw right away
- Saying nothing at all
Leading questions, suggestion, and repeated imagining can plant false memories.
Choose all that applyLevel 2
8. Which of these are chemical messengers in the brain? Pick all that apply.
- Dopaminecorrect
- Serotonincorrect
- Sand
- Rubber
Dopamine and serotonin are brain chemical messengers, while sand and rubber are not.

Units in Psychology

Listed in the order they are meant to be worked through.

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2,155 questions, in tiny sessions you can finish in a few minutes.

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Where these questions come from. Each unit starts as a plan of the concepts it should cover and the difficulty it should span. Questions are written against that plan with AI assistance, then checked by a validator that rejects anything without a single defensible answer, an explanation, or plausible wrong options. How we write questions sets out the whole process, and corrections are fixed in the bank and reach the site and the app the same day.