PSYC 2301 EXAM 1 EXAMPREP 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ 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.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ 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.
