PSY 150 MODULE 1 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
What is psychology? - Answers The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Behavioral neuroscience - Answers Is how the brain and nervous system affects behavior
Cognitive psychology - Answers It's how the brain thinks memory and problem-solving
Developmental psychology - Answers How people grow and change over life
Personality psychology - Answers Study on how traits make people different
Clinical psychology - Answers Diagnosing and treating mental disorders
Counseling psychology - Answers Life, school, career, and relationship problems
Health psychology - Answers Have the mind affects physical health
Social psychology - Answers How other people affect you
cross-culture psychology - Answers How culture affects our behavior
Functionalism (William James) - Answers What are mine does or our mental to help us survive
Gestalt Psychology (Max Wertheimer) - Answers the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Introspection - Answers Looking inside your own thoughts or feelings
Structuralism - Answers The mind into basic parks or different parts
Neuroscience - Answers The scientific study of the nervous system, the brain and biology
Psychodynamic - Answers Behavior from unconscious thoughts and childhood
cognitive - Answers Thinking memory and information processing
Humanistic - Answers The understanding of free will personal growth and reaching potential
Nature vs. Nurture - Answers genes vs environment
conscious vs unconscious - Answers Being aware or not aware
Free Will vs. Determination - Answers Choice vs outside forces
Observable behavior vs mental processes - Answers Actions vs thoughts
Individual differences vs universal principles - Answers Unique vs the same for everyone
Theory - Answers an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and
predicts behaviors or events
Hypothesis - Answers A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
naturalistic observation - Answers Observing or watching people in real life
survey - Answers Asking people questions
case study - Answers A deep study of one person or a group
archival research - Answers Using all records or data
ethnographic research - Answers Studying culture in real life
Correlation - Answers A relationship between two things
Positive correlations - Answers When both variables go up or down together
negative correlation - Answers When one variable goes up, the other goes down
zero correlation - Answers No relationship between the two variables
What is an experiment? - Answers A way to prove a cause and effect
Independent Variable (IV) - Answers The variable that the researchers change or manipulate
dependent variable - Answers what is being measured
experimental group - Answers The group that gets treatment or change
control group - Answers The group that doesn't get any treatment
Debriefing - Answers The pulse experimental explanation of the study after
Placebo - Answers Fake drug or treatment
Double blind - Answers When neither the participant or the researcher knows who got the real
treatment
What is psychology? - Answers The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Behavioral neuroscience - Answers Is how the brain and nervous system affects behavior
Cognitive psychology - Answers It's how the brain thinks memory and problem-solving
Developmental psychology - Answers How people grow and change over life
Personality psychology - Answers Study on how traits make people different
Clinical psychology - Answers Diagnosing and treating mental disorders
Counseling psychology - Answers Life, school, career, and relationship problems
Health psychology - Answers Have the mind affects physical health
Social psychology - Answers How other people affect you
cross-culture psychology - Answers How culture affects our behavior
Functionalism (William James) - Answers What are mine does or our mental to help us survive
Gestalt Psychology (Max Wertheimer) - Answers the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Introspection - Answers Looking inside your own thoughts or feelings
Structuralism - Answers The mind into basic parks or different parts
Neuroscience - Answers The scientific study of the nervous system, the brain and biology
Psychodynamic - Answers Behavior from unconscious thoughts and childhood
cognitive - Answers Thinking memory and information processing
Humanistic - Answers The understanding of free will personal growth and reaching potential
Nature vs. Nurture - Answers genes vs environment
conscious vs unconscious - Answers Being aware or not aware
Free Will vs. Determination - Answers Choice vs outside forces
Observable behavior vs mental processes - Answers Actions vs thoughts
Individual differences vs universal principles - Answers Unique vs the same for everyone
Theory - Answers an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and
predicts behaviors or events
Hypothesis - Answers A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
naturalistic observation - Answers Observing or watching people in real life
survey - Answers Asking people questions
case study - Answers A deep study of one person or a group
archival research - Answers Using all records or data
ethnographic research - Answers Studying culture in real life
Correlation - Answers A relationship between two things
Positive correlations - Answers When both variables go up or down together
negative correlation - Answers When one variable goes up, the other goes down
zero correlation - Answers No relationship between the two variables
What is an experiment? - Answers A way to prove a cause and effect
Independent Variable (IV) - Answers The variable that the researchers change or manipulate
dependent variable - Answers what is being measured
experimental group - Answers The group that gets treatment or change
control group - Answers The group that doesn't get any treatment
Debriefing - Answers The pulse experimental explanation of the study after
Placebo - Answers Fake drug or treatment
Double blind - Answers When neither the participant or the researcher knows who got the real
treatment
