NVCC PSY 200-E43L EXAM 1 ACTUAL EXAM
SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ What is the mind. Answer: the private inner experience of
perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings
◉ What is behavior. Answer: response to stimulus
◉ What is nativism. Answer: the theory that concepts, mental
capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired by
learning.
◉ · Who is credited as being the founder of psychology including
teaching its first course and opening its first lab in 1879?. Answer:
Wilhelm Wundt
◉ What is consciousness. Answer: our awareness of ourselves and
our environment
◉ How did Wundt study consciousness using stimuli and reaction
time. Answer: He trained psychology students to make observations
that were biased by personal interpretation or previous experience,
,and used the results to develop a theory of conscious thought. Highly
trained assistants would be given a stimulus such as a ticking
metronome and would reflect on the experience
◉ What is structuralism. Answer: Structuralism sought to analyze
the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to
the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then
to find the way in which these components fit together in complex
forms.
◉ What is introspection. Answer: the examination or observation of
one's own mental and emotional processes
◉ What is the problem with using introspection as a research
method. Answer: The observer is expected to perform two mental
activities simultaneously. He experiences his mental processes, and
at the same time analyzes what these experiences were like. At the
same time, he acts as the 'observed', and the 'observer'. Obviously,
his mental experiences would be distorted, and not reflect the true
nature of mental activities.
◉ What is functionalism. Answer: the study of the structure and
function of each part of society
◉ What is natural selection. Answer: differential survival and
reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a
, key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits
characteristic of a population over generations.
◉ What is hysteria. Answer: a temporary loss of cognitive or motor
functions, usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences
◉ What is the unconscious. Answer: thoughts, feelings, wishes,
memories, desires below conscious awareness
◉ What is the emphasis in Freud's psychoanalytic theory. Answer:
human behavior is influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts,
and urges.
◉ What is psychoanalysis. Answer: an approach to studying mental
illness that assumes mental illness is caused by subconscious
conflicts
◉ What is humanistic psychology. Answer: a perspective that
emphasizes looking at the whole individual and stresses concepts
such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization.
◉ What is behaviorism. Answer: a theory that states that all
behaviours are learned through conditioning and conditioning is
environmental
SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ What is the mind. Answer: the private inner experience of
perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings
◉ What is behavior. Answer: response to stimulus
◉ What is nativism. Answer: the theory that concepts, mental
capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired by
learning.
◉ · Who is credited as being the founder of psychology including
teaching its first course and opening its first lab in 1879?. Answer:
Wilhelm Wundt
◉ What is consciousness. Answer: our awareness of ourselves and
our environment
◉ How did Wundt study consciousness using stimuli and reaction
time. Answer: He trained psychology students to make observations
that were biased by personal interpretation or previous experience,
,and used the results to develop a theory of conscious thought. Highly
trained assistants would be given a stimulus such as a ticking
metronome and would reflect on the experience
◉ What is structuralism. Answer: Structuralism sought to analyze
the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to
the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then
to find the way in which these components fit together in complex
forms.
◉ What is introspection. Answer: the examination or observation of
one's own mental and emotional processes
◉ What is the problem with using introspection as a research
method. Answer: The observer is expected to perform two mental
activities simultaneously. He experiences his mental processes, and
at the same time analyzes what these experiences were like. At the
same time, he acts as the 'observed', and the 'observer'. Obviously,
his mental experiences would be distorted, and not reflect the true
nature of mental activities.
◉ What is functionalism. Answer: the study of the structure and
function of each part of society
◉ What is natural selection. Answer: differential survival and
reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a
, key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits
characteristic of a population over generations.
◉ What is hysteria. Answer: a temporary loss of cognitive or motor
functions, usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences
◉ What is the unconscious. Answer: thoughts, feelings, wishes,
memories, desires below conscious awareness
◉ What is the emphasis in Freud's psychoanalytic theory. Answer:
human behavior is influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts,
and urges.
◉ What is psychoanalysis. Answer: an approach to studying mental
illness that assumes mental illness is caused by subconscious
conflicts
◉ What is humanistic psychology. Answer: a perspective that
emphasizes looking at the whole individual and stresses concepts
such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization.
◉ What is behaviorism. Answer: a theory that states that all
behaviours are learned through conditioning and conditioning is
environmental
