PYC4809 THERAPEUTIC PSYCHOLOGY
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION 2026 FULL
SOLUTION VIEW AHEAD QUESTIONS
◉ structuralism
Answer: understanding the conscious experience through
introspection
◉ functionalism
Answer: focused on how mental activities helped an organism adapt
to its environment
◉ psychoanalytic theory
Answer: many of his patients problems arose from the unconscious
mind, which he thought was a repository of feelings and urges of
which we have no awareness
◉ gestalt psychology
Answer: sensory experiences can be broken down into individual
parts, how those parts relate to each other is often what people
respond to in perception
,◉ behaviorism
Answer: focus on observing and controlling behavior
◉ humanism
Answer: perspective within psychology that emphasizes the
potential for good that is innate to all humans
◉ wilhelm wundt
Answer: father of psychology, first psychology, views psychology as
the scientific study of the conscious experience
◉ edward titchener
Answer: wundts student, expanded on wundts views and developed
structuralism
◉ william james
Answer: first american psychologist, advanced scientific rigor of
psychology, changed the scientific study of consciousness in a
practical and meaningful way, functionalism
◉ s*gm*nd fr**d
, Answer: austrian neurologist who was fascinated by patients
suffering from "hysteria" and neurosis, psychoanalytic theory
◉ kohler, koffka, wertheimer
Answer: german psychologist, gestalt psychology
◉ ivan pavlov
Answer: discovered concept of classical conditioning
◉ john watson
Answer: father of behaviorism, believed objective analysis of mind
was impossible
◉ bf skinner
Answer: concentrated on how behavior was affected by its
consequences (reinforcement, punishment), how to manipulate
voluntarily behavior by changing the consequence of behavior
(operant conditioning)
◉ carl rogers
Answer: developed client centered therapy method which involves
the patient taking a lead role in the therapy session, humanism
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION 2026 FULL
SOLUTION VIEW AHEAD QUESTIONS
◉ structuralism
Answer: understanding the conscious experience through
introspection
◉ functionalism
Answer: focused on how mental activities helped an organism adapt
to its environment
◉ psychoanalytic theory
Answer: many of his patients problems arose from the unconscious
mind, which he thought was a repository of feelings and urges of
which we have no awareness
◉ gestalt psychology
Answer: sensory experiences can be broken down into individual
parts, how those parts relate to each other is often what people
respond to in perception
,◉ behaviorism
Answer: focus on observing and controlling behavior
◉ humanism
Answer: perspective within psychology that emphasizes the
potential for good that is innate to all humans
◉ wilhelm wundt
Answer: father of psychology, first psychology, views psychology as
the scientific study of the conscious experience
◉ edward titchener
Answer: wundts student, expanded on wundts views and developed
structuralism
◉ william james
Answer: first american psychologist, advanced scientific rigor of
psychology, changed the scientific study of consciousness in a
practical and meaningful way, functionalism
◉ s*gm*nd fr**d
, Answer: austrian neurologist who was fascinated by patients
suffering from "hysteria" and neurosis, psychoanalytic theory
◉ kohler, koffka, wertheimer
Answer: german psychologist, gestalt psychology
◉ ivan pavlov
Answer: discovered concept of classical conditioning
◉ john watson
Answer: father of behaviorism, believed objective analysis of mind
was impossible
◉ bf skinner
Answer: concentrated on how behavior was affected by its
consequences (reinforcement, punishment), how to manipulate
voluntarily behavior by changing the consequence of behavior
(operant conditioning)
◉ carl rogers
Answer: developed client centered therapy method which involves
the patient taking a lead role in the therapy session, humanism
