PSY 102 Exam 1: 2026/2027 LATEST QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Psychology -✓✓ The study of mind, brain and behaviour
• Levels of analysis -✓✓ Biological influences: Social or Behavioral Level
Psychological influences: Mental or Neurological Level
Social-cultural influences: Molecular or Neurochemical Level
• Multiply Determined -✓✓ Caused by Many Factors
• Individual Difference -✓✓ Variations among people in their thinking, emotions,
personality and behaviour
• Naïve Realism -✓✓ Belief that we see the world precisely as it is
• Scientific Theory -✓✓ Explanation for a number of large findings in the natural world
• Hypothesis -✓✓ Testable prediction derived from a scientific theory
• Confirmation Bias -✓✓ Tendency to seek out evidence that supports our hypothesis
and deny/disregard the information that contradicts them
• Belief Perseverance -✓✓ Tendency to stick to initial beliefs, even when evidence
contradicts them
• Metaphysical Claim -✓✓ assertion about the world that is not testable.
• Ad hoc immunizing hypothesis -✓✓ loophole that defenders of a theory use to protect
their theory from falsification
• Patternicity -✓✓ Tendency to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli
• Terror Management theory -✓✓ theory proposing awareness of our death leaves us
with an underlying sense of terror we cope with by adopting reassuring cultural world
views
• Scientific skepticism -✓✓ Approaching the evaluation of all claims with an open mind
but insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them.
, • Critical Thinking -✓✓ Set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open-minded and
careful fashion
• Correlation-causation Fallacy -✓✓ The misconception that if one thing is associated
with another thing, it must cause the other.
• Variable -✓✓ Anything
• Falsifiable -✓✓ Capable of being disproved
• Risky Prediction -✓✓ Forecast that's stands a good chance of being wrong
• Replicability -✓✓ when a study's findings are able to be duplicated, ideally by
independent investigators.
• Basic Research -✓✓ Research examining how the mind works
• applied research -✓✓ examination of how basic research can solve real-world
problems
• intelligence test -✓✓ diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability
• Abstract thinking -✓✓ capacity to understand hypothetical thoughts
• g (general intelligence) -✓✓ Hypothetical factor that accounts for overall differences in
intellect among people
• s (specific abilities) -✓✓ particular ability level in a narrow domain
• Fluid intelligence -✓✓ capacity to learn new ways of solving problems
• crystallized intelligence -✓✓ accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time
• Multiple intelligences -✓✓ idea that people vary in their ability levels across different
domains of intellectual skill
• Triarchic Model -✓✓ proposed three distinct types of intelligence: analytical, practical,
and creative
• Stanford-binet IQ test -✓✓ Intelligence test based on the measure development by
Binet and Simon, adapted by Lewis Terman of Stanford University
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ) -✓✓ systematic means of quantifying differences among
people in their intelligence.
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Psychology -✓✓ The study of mind, brain and behaviour
• Levels of analysis -✓✓ Biological influences: Social or Behavioral Level
Psychological influences: Mental or Neurological Level
Social-cultural influences: Molecular or Neurochemical Level
• Multiply Determined -✓✓ Caused by Many Factors
• Individual Difference -✓✓ Variations among people in their thinking, emotions,
personality and behaviour
• Naïve Realism -✓✓ Belief that we see the world precisely as it is
• Scientific Theory -✓✓ Explanation for a number of large findings in the natural world
• Hypothesis -✓✓ Testable prediction derived from a scientific theory
• Confirmation Bias -✓✓ Tendency to seek out evidence that supports our hypothesis
and deny/disregard the information that contradicts them
• Belief Perseverance -✓✓ Tendency to stick to initial beliefs, even when evidence
contradicts them
• Metaphysical Claim -✓✓ assertion about the world that is not testable.
• Ad hoc immunizing hypothesis -✓✓ loophole that defenders of a theory use to protect
their theory from falsification
• Patternicity -✓✓ Tendency to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli
• Terror Management theory -✓✓ theory proposing awareness of our death leaves us
with an underlying sense of terror we cope with by adopting reassuring cultural world
views
• Scientific skepticism -✓✓ Approaching the evaluation of all claims with an open mind
but insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them.
, • Critical Thinking -✓✓ Set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open-minded and
careful fashion
• Correlation-causation Fallacy -✓✓ The misconception that if one thing is associated
with another thing, it must cause the other.
• Variable -✓✓ Anything
• Falsifiable -✓✓ Capable of being disproved
• Risky Prediction -✓✓ Forecast that's stands a good chance of being wrong
• Replicability -✓✓ when a study's findings are able to be duplicated, ideally by
independent investigators.
• Basic Research -✓✓ Research examining how the mind works
• applied research -✓✓ examination of how basic research can solve real-world
problems
• intelligence test -✓✓ diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability
• Abstract thinking -✓✓ capacity to understand hypothetical thoughts
• g (general intelligence) -✓✓ Hypothetical factor that accounts for overall differences in
intellect among people
• s (specific abilities) -✓✓ particular ability level in a narrow domain
• Fluid intelligence -✓✓ capacity to learn new ways of solving problems
• crystallized intelligence -✓✓ accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time
• Multiple intelligences -✓✓ idea that people vary in their ability levels across different
domains of intellectual skill
• Triarchic Model -✓✓ proposed three distinct types of intelligence: analytical, practical,
and creative
• Stanford-binet IQ test -✓✓ Intelligence test based on the measure development by
Binet and Simon, adapted by Lewis Terman of Stanford University
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ) -✓✓ systematic means of quantifying differences among
people in their intelligence.
