LSU PSYC 2000 Final Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER - -father of modern psychology
-developed the technique of object introspection
-believed consequences could be broken into thought, experiences, emotions, and other basic
elements
Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER - -brought psychology in the form of structuralism to
America
James - CORRECT ANSWER - -functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
Watson - CORRECT ANSWER - -disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
psychologists - CORRECT ANSWER - -academic degrees and can do counseling,
teaching, research, and may specialize in any large area of psychology
psychiatrists - CORRECT ANSWER - -medical doctors who provide diagnosis and
therapy for a person with a mental disorder
are all psychologists therapists? - CORRECT ANSWER - No
do all therapists have doctoral degrees? - CORRECT ANSWER - No
, what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something else? - CORRECT
ANSWER - -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? - CORRECT ANSWER - -experiments are tightly
controlled manipulations of variables that allows researchers to determine cause & effect
relationships
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the other group as
comparison
dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - measured behavior or the response of
participants
independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - -helps control for individual differences both
within and between the groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
control groups - CORRECT ANSWER - -receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
main function of hippocampus - CORRECT ANSWER - -part of the brain responsible for
the formation of long-term declarative memories
main function of hypothalamus - CORRECT ANSWER - -controls hunger, thirst, sexual
behavior, sleeping and waking, and emotions
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER - -father of modern psychology
-developed the technique of object introspection
-believed consequences could be broken into thought, experiences, emotions, and other basic
elements
Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER - -brought psychology in the form of structuralism to
America
James - CORRECT ANSWER - -functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
Watson - CORRECT ANSWER - -disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
psychologists - CORRECT ANSWER - -academic degrees and can do counseling,
teaching, research, and may specialize in any large area of psychology
psychiatrists - CORRECT ANSWER - -medical doctors who provide diagnosis and
therapy for a person with a mental disorder
are all psychologists therapists? - CORRECT ANSWER - No
do all therapists have doctoral degrees? - CORRECT ANSWER - No
, what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something else? - CORRECT
ANSWER - -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? - CORRECT ANSWER - -experiments are tightly
controlled manipulations of variables that allows researchers to determine cause & effect
relationships
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the other group as
comparison
dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - measured behavior or the response of
participants
independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - -helps control for individual differences both
within and between the groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
control groups - CORRECT ANSWER - -receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
main function of hippocampus - CORRECT ANSWER - -part of the brain responsible for
the formation of long-term declarative memories
main function of hypothalamus - CORRECT ANSWER - -controls hunger, thirst, sexual
behavior, sleeping and waking, and emotions
