PSYC 1020 TRENT CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS EXPERT VERIFIED
●● Mental processes are those phenomena that include....
Answer: Thoughts, feelings, & memories
●● What do psychologists mean by behaviour?.
Answer: Any activity of a person or animal that can be observed &
measured
●● True or false: Psychology started off with a number of different
branches.
Answer: False
●● Define system/perspectives.
Answer: Assumptions & theories about how people work that are
clustered together to form that perspective
●● In the early history of psychology there appear to be how many
distinct groups?.
Answer: Two
,●● What were the two different early perspectives?.
Answer: 1. Studied human consciousness & human thought- using a
variety of methods
2. Only studied observable & objective behaviour
●● In the first psychological laboratory who attempted to study in an
experiential manner human consciousness under a variety of conditions.
Answer: Wundt & Others
●● Who was the founder of psychology?.
Answer: Wundt
●● Where was Wundt's laboratory?.
Answer: Leipzig, Germany
●● When was Wundt's laboratory founded?.
Answer: 1879
●● What did Wundt insist that psychology use?.
Answer: The scientific method
,●● Who attempted to study the same phenonomena as Wundt using his
method called structuralism?.
Answer: Titchener
●● What was the goal of structuralism?.
Answer: To study the basic elements or structure of conscious mental
experience
●● What is introspection?.
Answer: Participant reports what he or she felt after being presented a
stimulus
●● What were the problems with Structuralism?.
Answer: 1. Different people reported different sensations & perceptions
& experiences
2. Same person different experience to same stimulus
●● Why did functionalism arise?.
Answer: As a reaction against structuralism
●● What was functionalism?.
Answer: Concerned with how mental processes function and adapt (in
different environments)
, ●● Functionalism is based on what?.
Answer: Darwin's theory of evolution
●● Functionalism was the first to investigate what?.
Answer: Individual differences
●● Gestalt psychology is based on what?.
Answer: The idea that form perception is determined by certain
organising properties of the brain
●● Perceptual differences are greater than what?.
Answer: The sum of our sensations
●● Who were the people behind behaviourism?.
Answer: John Watson & B. F. Skinner
●● Behaviourists believe that psychology should focus only on what?.
Answer: Observable behaviours & their relationship to events that can
be objectively measured
●● Behaviourists believe that behaviour is determined primarily by
what?.
EVALUATION TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS EXPERT VERIFIED
●● Mental processes are those phenomena that include....
Answer: Thoughts, feelings, & memories
●● What do psychologists mean by behaviour?.
Answer: Any activity of a person or animal that can be observed &
measured
●● True or false: Psychology started off with a number of different
branches.
Answer: False
●● Define system/perspectives.
Answer: Assumptions & theories about how people work that are
clustered together to form that perspective
●● In the early history of psychology there appear to be how many
distinct groups?.
Answer: Two
,●● What were the two different early perspectives?.
Answer: 1. Studied human consciousness & human thought- using a
variety of methods
2. Only studied observable & objective behaviour
●● In the first psychological laboratory who attempted to study in an
experiential manner human consciousness under a variety of conditions.
Answer: Wundt & Others
●● Who was the founder of psychology?.
Answer: Wundt
●● Where was Wundt's laboratory?.
Answer: Leipzig, Germany
●● When was Wundt's laboratory founded?.
Answer: 1879
●● What did Wundt insist that psychology use?.
Answer: The scientific method
,●● Who attempted to study the same phenonomena as Wundt using his
method called structuralism?.
Answer: Titchener
●● What was the goal of structuralism?.
Answer: To study the basic elements or structure of conscious mental
experience
●● What is introspection?.
Answer: Participant reports what he or she felt after being presented a
stimulus
●● What were the problems with Structuralism?.
Answer: 1. Different people reported different sensations & perceptions
& experiences
2. Same person different experience to same stimulus
●● Why did functionalism arise?.
Answer: As a reaction against structuralism
●● What was functionalism?.
Answer: Concerned with how mental processes function and adapt (in
different environments)
, ●● Functionalism is based on what?.
Answer: Darwin's theory of evolution
●● Functionalism was the first to investigate what?.
Answer: Individual differences
●● Gestalt psychology is based on what?.
Answer: The idea that form perception is determined by certain
organising properties of the brain
●● Perceptual differences are greater than what?.
Answer: The sum of our sensations
●● Who were the people behind behaviourism?.
Answer: John Watson & B. F. Skinner
●● Behaviourists believe that psychology should focus only on what?.
Answer: Observable behaviours & their relationship to events that can
be objectively measured
●● Behaviourists believe that behaviour is determined primarily by
what?.
