PSYCHOLOGY 1000 COMPLETE LATEST
MUN BASED SET WITH QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT/VERIFIED ANSWERS
Psychology - correct answer-✅the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
mental processes - correct answer-✅internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
behaviour - correct answer-✅Any observable action made by a living person
availability heuristic - correct answer-✅when an idea is supported by easily recalled examples
confirmation bias - correct answer-✅a tendency to search for information that supports our
preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
four goals of psychology - correct answer-✅describe, explain, predict, control
levels of analysis - correct answer-✅rungs on a ladder of analysis, with lower levels tied most closely to
biological influences, then psychological influences, and higher levels tied most closely to social
influences
empirical - correct answer-✅based on observation or experiment
Hippocrates - correct answer-✅"Founder of Medicine" During the Golden Age in Greece he was a
scientist that believed all diseases came from natural causes. He also had high ideals for physicians & an
oath was made that is still used today. Also believed that temperament comes from four bodily humours:
blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
Aristotle - correct answer-✅Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and
the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly
influenced Western thought. Argued that the mind and body are the same and that we are born with a
blank slate and must learn all knowledge. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize Plato,
theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of
rational inquiry.
Plato - correct answer-✅(430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was
that certain mental processes are inherited.
Socrates - correct answer-✅(470-399 BCE) An Athenian philosopher who thought that human beings
could lead honest lives and that honor was far more important than wealth, fame, or other superficial
attributes.
Rene Descartes - correct answer-✅17th century French philosopher; a dualist (mind and body are
different but interact). Thought the brain controlled the body through fluid tubes. Proposed reflex arc to
explain behaviour.
John Locke - correct answer-✅17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings
and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. Empiricist associated with
Tabula Rasa.
Tabula Rasa - correct answer-✅John Locke's concept of the mind as a blank slate, knowledge must be
built from experiences.
Johannes Muller - correct answer-✅19th century physiologist who wrote Elements of Physiology and
postulated the existence of "specific nerve energies". Argued that researchers need to study the
relationship between physical stimuli and their psychological effects.
Frances Bacon - correct answer-✅created empiricism (the scientific method); criticized Aristotle, English
politician and writer in the 14th to 15th century.
Herman von Helmholtz (1821-1894) - correct answer-✅Student of Johannes Muller in the 19th century.
First to measure the speed of a nerve impulse in terms of reaction time and that they happen over time
instead of instantaneously ; Credited with transition of psychology into a field of natural sciences
, Gustav Fechner - correct answer-✅A German philosopher and physicist from the 19th century who is
considered to be one of the founders of experimental psychology. Published a book summarizing his
work in 1860 called 'Elements of Psychophysics'.
Charles Darwin - correct answer-✅English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South
America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
(1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
natural selection - correct answer-✅A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits
tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer-✅German physiologist who worked with Herman von Helmholtz and
went on to establish the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany in 1879.
Studied consciousness and developed a concept called voluntarism. elieved that consciousness could be
broken down into basic elements (atoms of the mind), much like chemistry. Believed that much of
behaviour is motivated and that attention is focused for an explicit purpose.
Voluntarism (Wundt) - correct answer-✅the manner in which the mind actively organizes it's
experiences through an act of will, that attention and behaviour is motivated for an explicit purpose.
consciousness - correct answer-✅our awareness of ourselves and our environment
Edward Titchener - correct answer-✅Englishman from the 19th-20th century who emigrated to the
United States. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology. Expanded
Wundt's approach to a theory called structuralism in Cornell University.
Structuralism - correct answer-✅an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the
elemental structure of the conscious human mind
Introspection - correct answer-✅A method of self-observation in which participants report their
thoughts and feelings.
limits of introspection - correct answer-✅- We only have access to conscious experiences
- There is no way to be completely objective
-Requires intelligent highly verbal participants
-Not falsifiable
William James - correct answer-✅Student of Herman von Helmholtz who wrote one of the first
psychology texts: 'Principles of Psychology'. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Functionalism - correct answer-✅A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and
behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.
Max Wertheimer - correct answer-✅Gestalt psychologist from the 19th to 20th century who argued
against dividing human thought and behavior into discrete structures, against structuralism.
Gestalt Psychology - correct answer-✅a psychological approach (and school of thought) that
emphasizes that we have tendencies to perceive things as a whole rather than individual components.
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
unconscious - correct answer-✅according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts,
wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of
which we are unaware.
Sigmund Freud - correct answer-✅Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of
behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis - correct answer-✅Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique and theory. Freud believed
the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, - and the therapist's interpretations of them -
released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. The conscious mind is
only the tip of intellect. Trauma causes repressed memories which can be brought forward with this
technique.
MUN BASED SET WITH QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT/VERIFIED ANSWERS
Psychology - correct answer-✅the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
mental processes - correct answer-✅internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
behaviour - correct answer-✅Any observable action made by a living person
availability heuristic - correct answer-✅when an idea is supported by easily recalled examples
confirmation bias - correct answer-✅a tendency to search for information that supports our
preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
four goals of psychology - correct answer-✅describe, explain, predict, control
levels of analysis - correct answer-✅rungs on a ladder of analysis, with lower levels tied most closely to
biological influences, then psychological influences, and higher levels tied most closely to social
influences
empirical - correct answer-✅based on observation or experiment
Hippocrates - correct answer-✅"Founder of Medicine" During the Golden Age in Greece he was a
scientist that believed all diseases came from natural causes. He also had high ideals for physicians & an
oath was made that is still used today. Also believed that temperament comes from four bodily humours:
blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
Aristotle - correct answer-✅Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and
the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly
influenced Western thought. Argued that the mind and body are the same and that we are born with a
blank slate and must learn all knowledge. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize Plato,
theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of
rational inquiry.
Plato - correct answer-✅(430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was
that certain mental processes are inherited.
Socrates - correct answer-✅(470-399 BCE) An Athenian philosopher who thought that human beings
could lead honest lives and that honor was far more important than wealth, fame, or other superficial
attributes.
Rene Descartes - correct answer-✅17th century French philosopher; a dualist (mind and body are
different but interact). Thought the brain controlled the body through fluid tubes. Proposed reflex arc to
explain behaviour.
John Locke - correct answer-✅17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings
and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. Empiricist associated with
Tabula Rasa.
Tabula Rasa - correct answer-✅John Locke's concept of the mind as a blank slate, knowledge must be
built from experiences.
Johannes Muller - correct answer-✅19th century physiologist who wrote Elements of Physiology and
postulated the existence of "specific nerve energies". Argued that researchers need to study the
relationship between physical stimuli and their psychological effects.
Frances Bacon - correct answer-✅created empiricism (the scientific method); criticized Aristotle, English
politician and writer in the 14th to 15th century.
Herman von Helmholtz (1821-1894) - correct answer-✅Student of Johannes Muller in the 19th century.
First to measure the speed of a nerve impulse in terms of reaction time and that they happen over time
instead of instantaneously ; Credited with transition of psychology into a field of natural sciences
, Gustav Fechner - correct answer-✅A German philosopher and physicist from the 19th century who is
considered to be one of the founders of experimental psychology. Published a book summarizing his
work in 1860 called 'Elements of Psychophysics'.
Charles Darwin - correct answer-✅English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South
America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
(1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
natural selection - correct answer-✅A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits
tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer-✅German physiologist who worked with Herman von Helmholtz and
went on to establish the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany in 1879.
Studied consciousness and developed a concept called voluntarism. elieved that consciousness could be
broken down into basic elements (atoms of the mind), much like chemistry. Believed that much of
behaviour is motivated and that attention is focused for an explicit purpose.
Voluntarism (Wundt) - correct answer-✅the manner in which the mind actively organizes it's
experiences through an act of will, that attention and behaviour is motivated for an explicit purpose.
consciousness - correct answer-✅our awareness of ourselves and our environment
Edward Titchener - correct answer-✅Englishman from the 19th-20th century who emigrated to the
United States. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology. Expanded
Wundt's approach to a theory called structuralism in Cornell University.
Structuralism - correct answer-✅an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the
elemental structure of the conscious human mind
Introspection - correct answer-✅A method of self-observation in which participants report their
thoughts and feelings.
limits of introspection - correct answer-✅- We only have access to conscious experiences
- There is no way to be completely objective
-Requires intelligent highly verbal participants
-Not falsifiable
William James - correct answer-✅Student of Herman von Helmholtz who wrote one of the first
psychology texts: 'Principles of Psychology'. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Functionalism - correct answer-✅A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and
behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.
Max Wertheimer - correct answer-✅Gestalt psychologist from the 19th to 20th century who argued
against dividing human thought and behavior into discrete structures, against structuralism.
Gestalt Psychology - correct answer-✅a psychological approach (and school of thought) that
emphasizes that we have tendencies to perceive things as a whole rather than individual components.
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
unconscious - correct answer-✅according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts,
wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of
which we are unaware.
Sigmund Freud - correct answer-✅Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of
behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis - correct answer-✅Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique and theory. Freud believed
the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, - and the therapist's interpretations of them -
released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. The conscious mind is
only the tip of intellect. Trauma causes repressed memories which can be brought forward with this
technique.
