PSYC 2301 BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
AND BRAIN FUNCTION EXAM QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS NEUROSCIENCE STUDY GUIDE
2026
◉ 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
AND BRAIN FUNCTION EXAM QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS NEUROSCIENCE STUDY GUIDE
2026
◉ 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
