PSYCHOLOGY 2301 EXAM 1 ACTUAL TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● structuralism/Wilhelm wudnt
Answer: consciousness is based on structural things
●● Functionalism/ William James
Answer: believed consciousness is enviromental
●● psychoanalysis/Freud
Answer: set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of
the unconscious mind
●● humanism/rogers
Answer: philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and
agency of human beings
●● social psych/ triplett
Answer: scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of
others
,●● cultural psych/relativism
Answer: study of how psychological and behavioral tendencies are
rooted in and embodied in culture
●● cognitive psych/computer analogy
Answer: study of mental processes such as "attention, language use,
memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking"
●● developmental psych/piaget
Answer: study of how and why human beings change over the course of
their life
●● behaviorism
Answer: systematic approach to the understanding of human and animal
behavior.
●● systematic introspection
Answer: examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings
●● psychologist
Answer: studies the human mind NOT clinical (that's Psychiatrists)
●● psychiatrist
, Answer: medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment
of mental illness
●● Women in psych
Answer: -Mary Calkins (first president of APA)
-Margaret Washburn (first phd in psych, influential in behavior)
-Helen Wooley (sex differences
●● confounds
Answer: cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting
against their expectations
●● neuron function
Answer: electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that function
to process and transmit information
●● dendrites
Answer: short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses
received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.
●● axon
Answer: the long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses
are conducted from the cell body to other cells.
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● structuralism/Wilhelm wudnt
Answer: consciousness is based on structural things
●● Functionalism/ William James
Answer: believed consciousness is enviromental
●● psychoanalysis/Freud
Answer: set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of
the unconscious mind
●● humanism/rogers
Answer: philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and
agency of human beings
●● social psych/ triplett
Answer: scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of
others
,●● cultural psych/relativism
Answer: study of how psychological and behavioral tendencies are
rooted in and embodied in culture
●● cognitive psych/computer analogy
Answer: study of mental processes such as "attention, language use,
memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking"
●● developmental psych/piaget
Answer: study of how and why human beings change over the course of
their life
●● behaviorism
Answer: systematic approach to the understanding of human and animal
behavior.
●● systematic introspection
Answer: examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings
●● psychologist
Answer: studies the human mind NOT clinical (that's Psychiatrists)
●● psychiatrist
, Answer: medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment
of mental illness
●● Women in psych
Answer: -Mary Calkins (first president of APA)
-Margaret Washburn (first phd in psych, influential in behavior)
-Helen Wooley (sex differences
●● confounds
Answer: cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting
against their expectations
●● neuron function
Answer: electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that function
to process and transmit information
●● dendrites
Answer: short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses
received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.
●● axon
Answer: the long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses
are conducted from the cell body to other cells.
