PSY 352 FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔paradigm shift - ✔✔change of a system of ideas that dominate science at a
particular time.
✔✔information-processing approach - ✔✔concept of psychology that describes the
mind as processing data through a sequence of stages.
✔✔artificial intelligence - ✔✔ability of a computer to perform tasks usually associated
with the human mind.
✔✔neuropsychology - ✔✔study of the behavior of people with brain damage.
✔✔electrophysiology - ✔✔measurement of electrical responses of the nervous system.
✔✔brain imaging - ✔✔technique that creates pictures of the brain.
✔✔Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔scientist who established the first laboratory of scientific
psychology
✔✔Hermann Ebbinghaus - ✔✔psychologist who studied the quantitative measurement
of mental processes.
✔✔William James - ✔✔psychologist who wrote the first psychology textbook; some of
his observations are still valid today.
✔✔mind - ✔✔system that creates mental representations of the world and controls
mental functions.
✔✔Fransiscus Donders - ✔✔physiologist who performed the first cognitive psychology
experiment.
✔✔cognition - ✔✔mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory,
language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.
✔✔Cognitive Psychology - ✔✔scientific study of the mind and mental processes.
✔✔principle of good continuation - ✔✔idea that humans perceive two objects that
overlap each as a single, uninterrupted object.
✔✔principle of simplicity - ✔✔concept that every stimulus is perceived in its most
uncomplicated form.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔paradigm shift - ✔✔change of a system of ideas that dominate science at a
particular time.
✔✔information-processing approach - ✔✔concept of psychology that describes the
mind as processing data through a sequence of stages.
✔✔artificial intelligence - ✔✔ability of a computer to perform tasks usually associated
with the human mind.
✔✔neuropsychology - ✔✔study of the behavior of people with brain damage.
✔✔electrophysiology - ✔✔measurement of electrical responses of the nervous system.
✔✔brain imaging - ✔✔technique that creates pictures of the brain.
✔✔Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔scientist who established the first laboratory of scientific
psychology
✔✔Hermann Ebbinghaus - ✔✔psychologist who studied the quantitative measurement
of mental processes.
✔✔William James - ✔✔psychologist who wrote the first psychology textbook; some of
his observations are still valid today.
✔✔mind - ✔✔system that creates mental representations of the world and controls
mental functions.
✔✔Fransiscus Donders - ✔✔physiologist who performed the first cognitive psychology
experiment.
✔✔cognition - ✔✔mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory,
language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.
✔✔Cognitive Psychology - ✔✔scientific study of the mind and mental processes.
✔✔principle of good continuation - ✔✔idea that humans perceive two objects that
overlap each as a single, uninterrupted object.
✔✔principle of simplicity - ✔✔concept that every stimulus is perceived in its most
uncomplicated form.
