2026 Exam Questions and
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1. What is Psychology? - ANSWER ✔✔The scientific study of
behavior and mental processes(Hard vs. Soft science)
-focuses on critical thinking (not just negative) and is scientific
1. Pseudopsychologies - ANSWER ✔✔unreliable approaches that do
not use the scientific method
-astrology, palmistry, psychokinesis, follicology
1.Psychology's Four Goals - ANSWER ✔✔1. Description: tells" what
occurred"
2. Explanation: tells "why" a behavior or mental process occurred
,3. Prediction: identifies conditions "under which a future behavior or
mental process is likely to occur"
4.Change: applies psychological knowledge to prevent unwanted or to
bring about desired goals
1.Types of Psychology - ANSWER ✔✔-biopsychology/ neuroscience
-clinical and counseling psychology
-cognitive psychology
- developmental psychology
education and school psychology
experimental psychology
-forensic psychology
-gender/ cultural psychology
-health psychology
-industrial/organizational psychology
-social psychology
1.what represents the largest group of Psychology? - ANSWER
✔✔Clinical psychology
1.origins of psychology - ANSWER ✔✔wilhelm wundt
,structuralism
functionalism
psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective
1. Wilhelm Wundt - ANSWER ✔✔"father of psychology" Leipzig,
Germany 1879
1.Structuralism - ANSWER ✔✔sought to identify the basic building
blocks, or structures, of the mind through introspection (Wundt and
Titchener)
focused on sensations and perceptual experiences
1. Functionalism - ANSWER ✔✔studied how the mind functions to
adapt organisms to their environment (William James)
1. Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective - ANSWER
✔✔unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts (freud was the
founder)
1.Recent schools of thought - ANSWER ✔✔-behavioral perspective
- humanist perspective
-cognitive perspective
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, -neuroscience/ biopychology perspective
1. Behavioral perspective - ANSWER ✔✔objective, observable
environmental influence on overt behavior (Watson, Pavlov, Skinner)
1. Humanist perspective - ANSWER ✔✔free will, self-actualization,
and a positive, growth-seeking human nature (Rogers and Maslow)
-inner-self and the importance of subjective feelilngs
1.Cognitive perspective - ANSWER ✔✔thought, perception, and
information processing.
1. Neuroscience/ Biopsychology perspective - ANSWER ✔✔genetics
and other biological processes in the brain and other parts of the
nervous system
1. Brain Differences - ANSWER ✔✔difference between men and
women is quite small.
1. Evolutionary - ANSWER ✔✔natural selection, adaptation, and
evolution
1. Sociocultural - ANSWER ✔✔social interaction and cultural
determinants "sociobiology"