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PSYCH 1101 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS (NEW UPDATED
VERSION) LATEST ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS) - GUARANTEED PASS A+ UPDATED THIS YEAR
1. Psychology is best defined as the scientific study of:
Answer: Behavior and mental processes
2. Who is considered the founder of modern psychology?
Answer: Wilhelm Wundt
3. What school of thought focuses on observable behavior?
Answer: Behaviorism
4. What perspective emphasizes unconscious motives?
Answer: Psychodynamic perspective
5. What psychological approach focuses on growth and self-actualization?
Answer: Humanistic perspective
Research Methods
6. What is the purpose of a hypothesis?
Answer: To make a testable prediction
7. What type of research shows relationships but not cause?
Answer: Correlational research
8. What variable is manipulated in an experiment?
Answer: Independent variable
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9. What variable is measured in an experiment?
Answer: Dependent variable
10. What helps eliminate experimenter bias?
Answer: Double-blind procedure
Biological Bases of Behavior
11. What part of the neuron receives signals?
Answer: Dendrites
12. What chemical messengers transmit signals between neurons?
Answer: Neurotransmitters
13. What brain structure regulates heartbeat and breathing?
Answer: Medulla
14. What part of the brain is responsible for decision making?
Answer: Frontal lobe
15. What nervous system controls involuntary functions?
Answer: Autonomic nervous system
Sensation & Perception
16. What is sensation?
Answer: The process of detecting stimuli
17. What is perception?
Answer: Interpreting sensory information
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18. What theory explains how we perceive color by three types of cones?
Answer: Trichromatic theory
19. What absolute threshold refers to?
Answer: Minimum stimulus detected 50% of the time
20. What is selective attention?
Answer: Focusing on specific stimuli
Learning
21. What learning occurs through association?
Answer: Classical conditioning
22. Who discovered classical conditioning?
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
23. What learning uses rewards and punishments?
Answer: Operant conditioning
24. Who developed operant conditioning?
Answer: B.F. Skinner
25. What reinforcement increases behavior?
Answer: Positive reinforcement
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Memory
26. What memory system holds information briefly?
Answer: Short-term memory
27. What type of memory is unlimited in capacity?
Answer: Long-term memory
28. What is encoding?
Answer: Processing information for storage
29. What is retrieval?
Answer: Accessing stored information
30. What memory loss is inability to form new memories?
Answer: Anterograde amnesia
Cognition & Intelligence
31. What is cognition?
Answer: Thinking and mental processes
32. What are mental shortcuts called?
Answer: Heuristics
33. Who proposed multiple intelligences?
Answer: Howard Gardner
34. What is IQ intended to measure?
Answer: General cognitive ability
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PSYCH 1101 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS (NEW UPDATED
VERSION) LATEST ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS) - GUARANTEED PASS A+ UPDATED THIS YEAR
1. Psychology is best defined as the scientific study of:
Answer: Behavior and mental processes
2. Who is considered the founder of modern psychology?
Answer: Wilhelm Wundt
3. What school of thought focuses on observable behavior?
Answer: Behaviorism
4. What perspective emphasizes unconscious motives?
Answer: Psychodynamic perspective
5. What psychological approach focuses on growth and self-actualization?
Answer: Humanistic perspective
Research Methods
6. What is the purpose of a hypothesis?
Answer: To make a testable prediction
7. What type of research shows relationships but not cause?
Answer: Correlational research
8. What variable is manipulated in an experiment?
Answer: Independent variable
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9. What variable is measured in an experiment?
Answer: Dependent variable
10. What helps eliminate experimenter bias?
Answer: Double-blind procedure
Biological Bases of Behavior
11. What part of the neuron receives signals?
Answer: Dendrites
12. What chemical messengers transmit signals between neurons?
Answer: Neurotransmitters
13. What brain structure regulates heartbeat and breathing?
Answer: Medulla
14. What part of the brain is responsible for decision making?
Answer: Frontal lobe
15. What nervous system controls involuntary functions?
Answer: Autonomic nervous system
Sensation & Perception
16. What is sensation?
Answer: The process of detecting stimuli
17. What is perception?
Answer: Interpreting sensory information
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18. What theory explains how we perceive color by three types of cones?
Answer: Trichromatic theory
19. What absolute threshold refers to?
Answer: Minimum stimulus detected 50% of the time
20. What is selective attention?
Answer: Focusing on specific stimuli
Learning
21. What learning occurs through association?
Answer: Classical conditioning
22. Who discovered classical conditioning?
Answer: Ivan Pavlov
23. What learning uses rewards and punishments?
Answer: Operant conditioning
24. Who developed operant conditioning?
Answer: B.F. Skinner
25. What reinforcement increases behavior?
Answer: Positive reinforcement
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Memory
26. What memory system holds information briefly?
Answer: Short-term memory
27. What type of memory is unlimited in capacity?
Answer: Long-term memory
28. What is encoding?
Answer: Processing information for storage
29. What is retrieval?
Answer: Accessing stored information
30. What memory loss is inability to form new memories?
Answer: Anterograde amnesia
Cognition & Intelligence
31. What is cognition?
Answer: Thinking and mental processes
32. What are mental shortcuts called?
Answer: Heuristics
33. Who proposed multiple intelligences?
Answer: Howard Gardner
34. What is IQ intended to measure?
Answer: General cognitive ability
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