PSYCHOLOGY IN YOUR LIFE EXAM SCRIPT
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉Materialism. Answer: Idea brain and mind are inseparable.
Processing of the brain is what allows the experience of the mind.
◉Structuralism. Answer: Wundt and Titchener
The conscious experience is broken down into its constituent parts if
you can understand the part that builds up the mind through
introspection, to understand the whole mind.
◉Functionalism. Answer: James and Darwin
An early school of thought concerned with the adaptive purpose,
function, of mind and behavior.
◉Psychoanalytic Theory. Answer: Freud
The study of the connections between the mind and physical
problems.
,◉psychoanalysis. Answer: The process of bringing the patients
unconscious mind into the patient's conscious awareness
◉Gestalt Theory. Answer: Wertheimer and Kohler
The idea that the whole of personal experience is greater than the
sum of its parts.
◉Behaviorism. Answer: Watson and Skinner
The school of thought that emphasizes the role of environmental
forces in producing behavior.
◉Humanistic psychology. Answer: Maslow and Rogers
Investigates how people grow to become happier and more fulfilled,
focuses on the basic goodness in people.
◉Cognitive Psychology. Answer: Miller and Neisser
The study of how people think, learn and remember
◉Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Answer: Responsible for
reviewing proposed research to ensure it meets the standard of
science and provides for the physical well-being of its participants.
◉Ethical Guidelines. Answer: privacy, confidentiality, informed
consent, deception, risks
, ◉Independent variable. Answer: the variable that is manipulated
and acts upon the dependent variable.
◉Dependent variable. Answer: The variable that is affected by the
independent variable and is measured.
◉Confound. Answer: Variables that might unintentionally vary
between studies
◉Control group. Answer: a comparison group of participants that
receives no intervention that is unrelated to the independent
variable being investigated.
◉Central Nervous System (CNS). Answer: processes, interprets,
stores information; issues orders to muscles glands, organs
◉Peripheral Nervous System. Answer: Transmits information to and
from the Central Nervous System
◉brain and spinal chord. Answer: What make up the Central
Nervous System
◉somatic nervous system. Answer: controls skeletal muscles
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉Materialism. Answer: Idea brain and mind are inseparable.
Processing of the brain is what allows the experience of the mind.
◉Structuralism. Answer: Wundt and Titchener
The conscious experience is broken down into its constituent parts if
you can understand the part that builds up the mind through
introspection, to understand the whole mind.
◉Functionalism. Answer: James and Darwin
An early school of thought concerned with the adaptive purpose,
function, of mind and behavior.
◉Psychoanalytic Theory. Answer: Freud
The study of the connections between the mind and physical
problems.
,◉psychoanalysis. Answer: The process of bringing the patients
unconscious mind into the patient's conscious awareness
◉Gestalt Theory. Answer: Wertheimer and Kohler
The idea that the whole of personal experience is greater than the
sum of its parts.
◉Behaviorism. Answer: Watson and Skinner
The school of thought that emphasizes the role of environmental
forces in producing behavior.
◉Humanistic psychology. Answer: Maslow and Rogers
Investigates how people grow to become happier and more fulfilled,
focuses on the basic goodness in people.
◉Cognitive Psychology. Answer: Miller and Neisser
The study of how people think, learn and remember
◉Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Answer: Responsible for
reviewing proposed research to ensure it meets the standard of
science and provides for the physical well-being of its participants.
◉Ethical Guidelines. Answer: privacy, confidentiality, informed
consent, deception, risks
, ◉Independent variable. Answer: the variable that is manipulated
and acts upon the dependent variable.
◉Dependent variable. Answer: The variable that is affected by the
independent variable and is measured.
◉Confound. Answer: Variables that might unintentionally vary
between studies
◉Control group. Answer: a comparison group of participants that
receives no intervention that is unrelated to the independent
variable being investigated.
◉Central Nervous System (CNS). Answer: processes, interprets,
stores information; issues orders to muscles glands, organs
◉Peripheral Nervous System. Answer: Transmits information to and
from the Central Nervous System
◉brain and spinal chord. Answer: What make up the Central
Nervous System
◉somatic nervous system. Answer: controls skeletal muscles
