PSYC 101 EXAM 1 COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Where did psychology branch out from?
Answer: Physiology and Philosophy
●● Structuralism
Answer: Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not
identified with anymore)
●● 2 Structuralists
Answer: Wundt and Titchener
●● Functionalism
Answer: Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to
their environment (not identified with anymore)
●● 2 Functionalists
Answer: Darwin and James
,●● 3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena
Answer: Theoretical Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods
of Observation
●● Modern Perspectives
Answer: Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
●● Psychodynamic
Answer: started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or
prove because of small sample size
●● Behaviorist
Answer: Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts
of environmental events; experiment
●● Behaviorist Metaphor
Answer: People are like machines
●● Cognitive
Answer: Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve
information (Perspective)
●● Cognitive Metaphor
, Answer: Brain like a computer
●● Evolutionary
Answer: Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our
ancestors survive
●● Evolutionary Metaphor
Answer: runners in a race
●● Biopsychology
Answer: Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
●● Developmental psychology
Answer: How thought, feeling, and behavior develops through life span
●● Social Psychology
Answer: Influence of real or imagined others influence on the individual
●● Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Answer: Human behavior within an organization as well as
organizational problems (sub-discipline)
●● Educational Psychology
EXAMINATION TEST FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Where did psychology branch out from?
Answer: Physiology and Philosophy
●● Structuralism
Answer: Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not
identified with anymore)
●● 2 Structuralists
Answer: Wundt and Titchener
●● Functionalism
Answer: Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to
their environment (not identified with anymore)
●● 2 Functionalists
Answer: Darwin and James
,●● 3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena
Answer: Theoretical Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods
of Observation
●● Modern Perspectives
Answer: Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
●● Psychodynamic
Answer: started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or
prove because of small sample size
●● Behaviorist
Answer: Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts
of environmental events; experiment
●● Behaviorist Metaphor
Answer: People are like machines
●● Cognitive
Answer: Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve
information (Perspective)
●● Cognitive Metaphor
, Answer: Brain like a computer
●● Evolutionary
Answer: Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our
ancestors survive
●● Evolutionary Metaphor
Answer: runners in a race
●● Biopsychology
Answer: Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
●● Developmental psychology
Answer: How thought, feeling, and behavior develops through life span
●● Social Psychology
Answer: Influence of real or imagined others influence on the individual
●● Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Answer: Human behavior within an organization as well as
organizational problems (sub-discipline)
●● Educational Psychology
