LSU PSYC 2000 Final Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions
Wundt -father of modern psychology
-developed the technique of object introspection
-believed consequences could be broken into thought, experiences, emotions, and other basic
elements
Titchener -brought psychology in the form of structuralism to America
James -functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
Watson -disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
psychologists -academic degrees and can do counseling, teaching, research, and may
specialize in any large area of psychology
,LSU PSYC 2000 Final Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions
psychiatrists -medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for a person with a
mental disorder
are all psychologists therapists? No
do all therapists have doctoral degrees? No
what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something else? -statistical
technique that allows researchers to discover and predict relationships between variables of
interest
-positive correlations exist when increases in one variable are matched by increases in the other
variable
-cannot be used to prove cause & effect relationships
what special kind of conclusion can we make based on an experiment that we can't make with
other types of research designs? -experiments are tightly controlled manipulations of
variables that allows researchers to determine cause & effect relationships
, LSU PSYC 2000 Final Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the other group as
comparison
dependent variable measured behavior or the response of participants
independent variable the variable that is deliberately manipulated by the experimenter to
see if related changes occur in the behavior or the responses of the participants and is given to
the experimental group
random assignment -helps control for individual differences both within and between the
groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
control groups -receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
main function of hippocampus -part of the brain responsible for the formation of long-
term declarative memories
Complete Solutions
Wundt -father of modern psychology
-developed the technique of object introspection
-believed consequences could be broken into thought, experiences, emotions, and other basic
elements
Titchener -brought psychology in the form of structuralism to America
James -functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
Watson -disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
psychologists -academic degrees and can do counseling, teaching, research, and may
specialize in any large area of psychology
,LSU PSYC 2000 Final Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions
psychiatrists -medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for a person with a
mental disorder
are all psychologists therapists? No
do all therapists have doctoral degrees? No
what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something else? -statistical
technique that allows researchers to discover and predict relationships between variables of
interest
-positive correlations exist when increases in one variable are matched by increases in the other
variable
-cannot be used to prove cause & effect relationships
what special kind of conclusion can we make based on an experiment that we can't make with
other types of research designs? -experiments are tightly controlled manipulations of
variables that allows researchers to determine cause & effect relationships
, LSU PSYC 2000 Final Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the other group as
comparison
dependent variable measured behavior or the response of participants
independent variable the variable that is deliberately manipulated by the experimenter to
see if related changes occur in the behavior or the responses of the participants and is given to
the experimental group
random assignment -helps control for individual differences both within and between the
groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
control groups -receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
main function of hippocampus -part of the brain responsible for the formation of long-
term declarative memories
