PSYCH 121 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
What is Psychology? - Answers the scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is Dualism? - Answers The Mind and Body are fundamentally different
Who dealt with Dualism - Answers Rene Descartes
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What is Materialism - Answers The mind and body are not fundamentally different.
Who Dealt with Materialism? - Answers Thomas Hobbs
What is realism? - Answers Our perceptions of the world are a faithful copy of information from the
world.
(The eye sends all information to the brain)
Who dealt with Realism? - Answers John Lock
What is Idealism - Answers Our perceptions of the physical world are our brain's best interpretation
of the world.
(what we see plus what we know about the world to produce what we see)
What is Empiricism - Answers Knowledge is acquired through experience
What is nativism? - Answers We are born already knowing things
What did Hermann Von Helmholtz study? - Answers Reaction Time
Who was involved in the beginning of Structuralism - Answers Hermann Von Helmholtz
Who is the Father of Psychology and has the first Psychology Lab? - Answers Wilhelm Wundt
What is Structuralism? - Answers To analyze the mind by breaking it down into basic parts
What did William James focus on? - Answers What the mind was for/ Functionalism
What is functionalism based on? - Answers Natural Selection (Charles Darwin)
What is Natural Selection? - Answers Features that help survival and reproduction are more likely to
be passed on.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory? - Answers How our unconscious influences our feelings, thoughts,
and behaviors.
Who was Known for studying rats (Behaviorism)? - Answers John Watson
What is Psychoanalysis? - Answers Therapy aims to provide insight into the contents of the
unconscious mind.
What is behaviorism? - Answers The study of how people act and what they do
Who wanted to know how animals learn how to do things? - Answers BF skinner
Who studied how people perceived motion? - Answers Max Wertheimer
What is developmental psychology? (Jean Piaget) - Answers The study of the ways in which
psychological phenomena change over the lifespan
What is Social Psychology? (Kurt Lewin) - Answers The study of the causes and consequences of
sociality
What is Cognitive Psychology? - Answers The study of the causes and consequences of sociality
What is Evolutionary Psychology? - Answers Explains mind and behavior in terms of adaptive value of
abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection
(Humans are a product of their ancestors and evolution)
What is Cognitive Neuroscience? - Answers Study of the relationship between the brain and the mind
(especially in humans)
What is Behavioral Neuroscience? - Answers Study of the relationship between the brain and
behavior (especially in nonhuman animals)
What is Cultural Psychology - Answers The Study of how cultures (values, traditions, and beliefs)
reflect and shape psychological processes.
Who was the First women to receive her PhD in Psychology? - Answers Margaret Floy Washburn
What is Empiricism? - Answers The belief that knowledge can be acquired through systematic
observation.
What is Construct Validity - Answers The Extent to which the thing being measured adequately
characterizes the behavior/variable.
What is Psychology? - Answers the scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is Dualism? - Answers The Mind and Body are fundamentally different
Who dealt with Dualism - Answers Rene Descartes
D> Dualism
D> Descartes
What is Materialism - Answers The mind and body are not fundamentally different.
Who Dealt with Materialism? - Answers Thomas Hobbs
What is realism? - Answers Our perceptions of the world are a faithful copy of information from the
world.
(The eye sends all information to the brain)
Who dealt with Realism? - Answers John Lock
What is Idealism - Answers Our perceptions of the physical world are our brain's best interpretation
of the world.
(what we see plus what we know about the world to produce what we see)
What is Empiricism - Answers Knowledge is acquired through experience
What is nativism? - Answers We are born already knowing things
What did Hermann Von Helmholtz study? - Answers Reaction Time
Who was involved in the beginning of Structuralism - Answers Hermann Von Helmholtz
Who is the Father of Psychology and has the first Psychology Lab? - Answers Wilhelm Wundt
What is Structuralism? - Answers To analyze the mind by breaking it down into basic parts
What did William James focus on? - Answers What the mind was for/ Functionalism
What is functionalism based on? - Answers Natural Selection (Charles Darwin)
What is Natural Selection? - Answers Features that help survival and reproduction are more likely to
be passed on.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory? - Answers How our unconscious influences our feelings, thoughts,
and behaviors.
Who was Known for studying rats (Behaviorism)? - Answers John Watson
What is Psychoanalysis? - Answers Therapy aims to provide insight into the contents of the
unconscious mind.
What is behaviorism? - Answers The study of how people act and what they do
Who wanted to know how animals learn how to do things? - Answers BF skinner
Who studied how people perceived motion? - Answers Max Wertheimer
What is developmental psychology? (Jean Piaget) - Answers The study of the ways in which
psychological phenomena change over the lifespan
What is Social Psychology? (Kurt Lewin) - Answers The study of the causes and consequences of
sociality
What is Cognitive Psychology? - Answers The study of the causes and consequences of sociality
What is Evolutionary Psychology? - Answers Explains mind and behavior in terms of adaptive value of
abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection
(Humans are a product of their ancestors and evolution)
What is Cognitive Neuroscience? - Answers Study of the relationship between the brain and the mind
(especially in humans)
What is Behavioral Neuroscience? - Answers Study of the relationship between the brain and
behavior (especially in nonhuman animals)
What is Cultural Psychology - Answers The Study of how cultures (values, traditions, and beliefs)
reflect and shape psychological processes.
Who was the First women to receive her PhD in Psychology? - Answers Margaret Floy Washburn
What is Empiricism? - Answers The belief that knowledge can be acquired through systematic
observation.
What is Construct Validity - Answers The Extent to which the thing being measured adequately
characterizes the behavior/variable.
