HISTORY OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY 6TH
EDITION EXAM PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ How did early psych knowledge accumulate
Answer: folklore, religion, paintings and agriculture
◉ Zeitgeist
Answer: The intellectual and cultural climate of the time period.
◉ inattentional blindness
Answer: failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our
attention is focused elsewhere
◉ Contextual Forces in Psychology
Answer: Economics and Immigration. World Wars. Prejudice and
Discrimination. Social and political forces. Ethnic origin (jews) and
female.
◉ How can culture define who we perceive and understand human
behavior?
Answer: What we attend to is what we see/understand.
, ◉ Historiography
Answer: The principles, methods, and philosophical issues of
historical research
◉ What happened to Watson's data
Answer: he destroyed before his death. Burned it.
◉ 3 concepts to Freud's theory of personality
Answer: Id, Ego, Superego
◉ Frances Sumner
Answer: 1st black student to earn doctorate degree.
◉ Inez Beverly Prosser
Answer: First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in
psychology
◉ Maime Phipps Clark
Answer: Wife of Kenneth Clark. Black earned Ph.D in psychology
◉ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
EDITION EXAM PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ How did early psych knowledge accumulate
Answer: folklore, religion, paintings and agriculture
◉ Zeitgeist
Answer: The intellectual and cultural climate of the time period.
◉ inattentional blindness
Answer: failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our
attention is focused elsewhere
◉ Contextual Forces in Psychology
Answer: Economics and Immigration. World Wars. Prejudice and
Discrimination. Social and political forces. Ethnic origin (jews) and
female.
◉ How can culture define who we perceive and understand human
behavior?
Answer: What we attend to is what we see/understand.
, ◉ Historiography
Answer: The principles, methods, and philosophical issues of
historical research
◉ What happened to Watson's data
Answer: he destroyed before his death. Burned it.
◉ 3 concepts to Freud's theory of personality
Answer: Id, Ego, Superego
◉ Frances Sumner
Answer: 1st black student to earn doctorate degree.
◉ Inez Beverly Prosser
Answer: First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in
psychology
◉ Maime Phipps Clark
Answer: Wife of Kenneth Clark. Black earned Ph.D in psychology
◉ Santiago Ramon y Cajal