PSY 101 SDSU LAUMAKIS FINAL PAPER 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ Structuralism . Answer: conscious experience can be broken down
into its underlying components or elements.
◉ Functionalism . Answer: highlighted the adaptive purpose, or
function of mind and behavior.
◉ Nativism . Answer: the human mind is created with pre-existing
structure and information (NATURE).
◉ Empiricism . Answer: the human mind is shaped by the environment
(NURTURE).
◉ Behaviorism . Answer: emphasizes the role of environment forces in
shaping behavior.
◉ describe ; predict ; explain ; control . Answer: what are the 4 main
goals of psychology?
,◉ Introspection . Answer: a method used to examine one's own
conscious activities.
◉ Humanistic Psychology . Answer: an approach suggesting that
human nature is by large positive, and the human direction is toward
growth.
◉ Biopsychosocial Perspective . Answer: explains behavior through
the interaction of biological, psychological and social factors.
◉ Dualism . Answer: the idea that the mind and body are two separate
entities.
◉ Plato . Answer: greek philosopher who proposed that some ideas are
innate.
◉ Aristotle . Answer: greek philosopher who proposed theories to
explain many aspects of human behavior; supported the empiricist view
that all knowledge comes from sensory experiences.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt . Answer: german physiologist who founded
psychology as a formal science; opened first psychology research lab in
1879.
, ◉ William James . Answer: american philosopher and psychologist
who wrote and influential psychology textbook.
◉ Sigmund Freud . Answer: austrian physician whose work forced on
the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded
psychoanalysis.
◉ John B. Watson . Answer: founded behaviorism, emphasizing the
study of observable behavior and rejecting the study of mental
processes.
◉ B.F. Skinner . Answer: championed behaviorism and studied operant
conditioning.
◉ Pseudo-Psychology . Answer: an approach to explaining and
predicting behavior and events that appears to be psychology, but has no
empirical or objective evidence to support it.
◉ Critical Thinking . Answer: the process of weighing various pieces
of evidence, synthesizing them, and evaluating and determining the
contributions of each.
◉ Experiment . Answer: a controlled procedure that involved careful
examination through the use of scientific observation and/or
manipulation of variables (measurable characteristic).
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ Structuralism . Answer: conscious experience can be broken down
into its underlying components or elements.
◉ Functionalism . Answer: highlighted the adaptive purpose, or
function of mind and behavior.
◉ Nativism . Answer: the human mind is created with pre-existing
structure and information (NATURE).
◉ Empiricism . Answer: the human mind is shaped by the environment
(NURTURE).
◉ Behaviorism . Answer: emphasizes the role of environment forces in
shaping behavior.
◉ describe ; predict ; explain ; control . Answer: what are the 4 main
goals of psychology?
,◉ Introspection . Answer: a method used to examine one's own
conscious activities.
◉ Humanistic Psychology . Answer: an approach suggesting that
human nature is by large positive, and the human direction is toward
growth.
◉ Biopsychosocial Perspective . Answer: explains behavior through
the interaction of biological, psychological and social factors.
◉ Dualism . Answer: the idea that the mind and body are two separate
entities.
◉ Plato . Answer: greek philosopher who proposed that some ideas are
innate.
◉ Aristotle . Answer: greek philosopher who proposed theories to
explain many aspects of human behavior; supported the empiricist view
that all knowledge comes from sensory experiences.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt . Answer: german physiologist who founded
psychology as a formal science; opened first psychology research lab in
1879.
, ◉ William James . Answer: american philosopher and psychologist
who wrote and influential psychology textbook.
◉ Sigmund Freud . Answer: austrian physician whose work forced on
the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded
psychoanalysis.
◉ John B. Watson . Answer: founded behaviorism, emphasizing the
study of observable behavior and rejecting the study of mental
processes.
◉ B.F. Skinner . Answer: championed behaviorism and studied operant
conditioning.
◉ Pseudo-Psychology . Answer: an approach to explaining and
predicting behavior and events that appears to be psychology, but has no
empirical or objective evidence to support it.
◉ Critical Thinking . Answer: the process of weighing various pieces
of evidence, synthesizing them, and evaluating and determining the
contributions of each.
◉ Experiment . Answer: a controlled procedure that involved careful
examination through the use of scientific observation and/or
manipulation of variables (measurable characteristic).
