ETS (PSYCHOLOGY) TEST PREP
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
Q&A 2026 100% CORRECT.
⫸ Behaviorists. Answer: John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner dismissed
introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of
observable behavior.
⫸ Humanistic Psychology. Answer: Rebelled against both
Behaviorism and Freudian psychology. Pioneers Carl Rogers and
Maslow emphasized the importance of current environmental
influences on our growth potential.
⫸ Psychology. Answer: Science of behavior and mental processes.
⫸ Nature-nurture issue. Answer: The controversy over the relative
contributions of biology and experience to the development of our
traits and behaviors.
⫸ Biopsychosocial approach. Answer: Considers the influences of
biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors.
⫸ Applied research. Answer: practical research- industrial
organizational psychologists
,⫸ Hindsight bias. Answer: The tendency to believe after learning an
outcome, that we would have foreseen it. The I knew it all along
phenomenon)
⫸ Overconfidence. Answer: Humans tend to think they know more
than they do.
⫸ Theory. Answer: An explanation using an integrated set of
principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
⫸ Hypothesis. Answer: Testable prediction
⫸ Case study. Answer: Examines one individual in depth in hope of
revealing things true of us all
⫸ Naturalistic observation. Answer: Observing and recording
behavior in a naturally occurring situation without trying to
manipulate or control the situation
⫸ Correlation. Answer: the extent to which two factors vary together.
Positive/negative ranges from -1 to 1. Correlation does not imply
causation.
⫸ Experiment. Answer: Enable to the researcher to focus on the
possible effects of one or more factors by 1) manipulating the factors
of interest and 2) holding constant other factors
, ⫸ Experimental group. Answer: receives a treatment
⫸ Control group. Answer: receives a pseudotreatment
⫸ double-blind procedure. Answer: neither the participants nor the
research assistants collecting the data will know which group is
receiving the treatment
⫸ Dendrite. Answer: the neurons busy branching extensions that
receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
⫸ Axon. Answer: The neurons extension that passes messages
through its branching terminal fibers that form junctions with other
neurons
⫸ Action potential. Answer: short electrical charge that travels down
its axon
⫸ Synapse. Answer: the meeting point between neurons
⫸ neurotransmitters. Answer: chemical messengers that cross the
synaptic gap between neurons. will travel across the synapse and bind
to the receiving neuron
⫸ Somatic nervous system. Answer: Enables voluntary control of our
skeletal muscles
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
Q&A 2026 100% CORRECT.
⫸ Behaviorists. Answer: John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner dismissed
introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of
observable behavior.
⫸ Humanistic Psychology. Answer: Rebelled against both
Behaviorism and Freudian psychology. Pioneers Carl Rogers and
Maslow emphasized the importance of current environmental
influences on our growth potential.
⫸ Psychology. Answer: Science of behavior and mental processes.
⫸ Nature-nurture issue. Answer: The controversy over the relative
contributions of biology and experience to the development of our
traits and behaviors.
⫸ Biopsychosocial approach. Answer: Considers the influences of
biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors.
⫸ Applied research. Answer: practical research- industrial
organizational psychologists
,⫸ Hindsight bias. Answer: The tendency to believe after learning an
outcome, that we would have foreseen it. The I knew it all along
phenomenon)
⫸ Overconfidence. Answer: Humans tend to think they know more
than they do.
⫸ Theory. Answer: An explanation using an integrated set of
principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
⫸ Hypothesis. Answer: Testable prediction
⫸ Case study. Answer: Examines one individual in depth in hope of
revealing things true of us all
⫸ Naturalistic observation. Answer: Observing and recording
behavior in a naturally occurring situation without trying to
manipulate or control the situation
⫸ Correlation. Answer: the extent to which two factors vary together.
Positive/negative ranges from -1 to 1. Correlation does not imply
causation.
⫸ Experiment. Answer: Enable to the researcher to focus on the
possible effects of one or more factors by 1) manipulating the factors
of interest and 2) holding constant other factors
, ⫸ Experimental group. Answer: receives a treatment
⫸ Control group. Answer: receives a pseudotreatment
⫸ double-blind procedure. Answer: neither the participants nor the
research assistants collecting the data will know which group is
receiving the treatment
⫸ Dendrite. Answer: the neurons busy branching extensions that
receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
⫸ Axon. Answer: The neurons extension that passes messages
through its branching terminal fibers that form junctions with other
neurons
⫸ Action potential. Answer: short electrical charge that travels down
its axon
⫸ Synapse. Answer: the meeting point between neurons
⫸ neurotransmitters. Answer: chemical messengers that cross the
synaptic gap between neurons. will travel across the synapse and bind
to the receiving neuron
⫸ Somatic nervous system. Answer: Enables voluntary control of our
skeletal muscles
