PSY 200 NVCC MAIN EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is hysteria? - ✔✔temporary loss in cognitive and motor skills due to a high
stress situation or stimuli
✔✔What is the unconscious? - ✔✔the mind that influences the conscious awareness in
thoughts, feelings, and actions.
✔✔What is the emphasis in Freud's psychoanalytic theory? - ✔✔the unconscious
anxieties, conflicts and desires
✔✔What is psychoanalysis? - ✔✔therapeutic approach with a focus on bringing the
unconscious material into awareness to better understand psychological disorders
✔✔What were some criticisms of Freud's approach? - ✔✔That it was hard to test and
therefore was of limited use
✔✔What is humanistic psychology? - ✔✔an approach to understanding human nature
by urging individuals to increase their positive potential.
✔✔Who were the founders of humanistic psychology? - ✔✔Abraham Maslow and Carl
Rogers
✔✔What is behaviorism? - ✔✔the study of observable human and nonhuman acts
✔✔What is S-R psychology? - ✔✔because when the stimulus is applied, the reaction is
the change that occurs and is later observed
✔✔What psychologist is associated with behaviorism? - ✔✔Margaret Floy Washburn
✔✔What are some of its criticisms? - ✔✔That it was hard to test and therefore was of
limited use
, ✔✔What is Gestalt psychology? - ✔✔emphasis put on perception of the whole than
sum of its parts
✔✔What is cognitive psychology? - ✔✔the study of the inner workings of the brain's
processing including perception, thought, memory and reasoning
✔✔What is behavioral neuroscience? - ✔✔the link between psychological processes
between the nervous system and other bodily processes
✔✔What is evolutionary psychology? - ✔✔the adaptivity of certain psychological traits
due to natural selection
✔✔What is social psychology? - ✔✔study of causes and consequences of interpersonal
behavior
✔✔What is cultural psychology? - ✔✔how cultures reflect and form the psychological
processes of their members
✔✔What is empiricism? - ✔✔the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-
experience.
✔✔What is the scientific method? - ✔✔A theory for finding truth by using empirical
evidence
✔✔What is a theory? - ✔✔A hypothetical explanation of a natural phenomenon
✔✔A hypothesis? - ✔✔A falsifiable prediction made by a theory
✔✔What is an operational definition? - ✔✔A description of a property in concrete,
measurable terms.
✔✔What do measurements need to have? - ✔✔Reliability, Validity & power
✔✔reliability - ✔✔The tendency for an instrument to produce the same measurement
whenever it is used to measure the same thing.
✔✔validity - ✔✔The goodness with which a concrete event defines a property
✔✔What refers to whether a measure is consistent? - ✔✔Validity
✔✔What are demand characteristics - ✔✔those aspects of an observational setting that
cause people to behave as they think someone else wants or expects
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is hysteria? - ✔✔temporary loss in cognitive and motor skills due to a high
stress situation or stimuli
✔✔What is the unconscious? - ✔✔the mind that influences the conscious awareness in
thoughts, feelings, and actions.
✔✔What is the emphasis in Freud's psychoanalytic theory? - ✔✔the unconscious
anxieties, conflicts and desires
✔✔What is psychoanalysis? - ✔✔therapeutic approach with a focus on bringing the
unconscious material into awareness to better understand psychological disorders
✔✔What were some criticisms of Freud's approach? - ✔✔That it was hard to test and
therefore was of limited use
✔✔What is humanistic psychology? - ✔✔an approach to understanding human nature
by urging individuals to increase their positive potential.
✔✔Who were the founders of humanistic psychology? - ✔✔Abraham Maslow and Carl
Rogers
✔✔What is behaviorism? - ✔✔the study of observable human and nonhuman acts
✔✔What is S-R psychology? - ✔✔because when the stimulus is applied, the reaction is
the change that occurs and is later observed
✔✔What psychologist is associated with behaviorism? - ✔✔Margaret Floy Washburn
✔✔What are some of its criticisms? - ✔✔That it was hard to test and therefore was of
limited use
, ✔✔What is Gestalt psychology? - ✔✔emphasis put on perception of the whole than
sum of its parts
✔✔What is cognitive psychology? - ✔✔the study of the inner workings of the brain's
processing including perception, thought, memory and reasoning
✔✔What is behavioral neuroscience? - ✔✔the link between psychological processes
between the nervous system and other bodily processes
✔✔What is evolutionary psychology? - ✔✔the adaptivity of certain psychological traits
due to natural selection
✔✔What is social psychology? - ✔✔study of causes and consequences of interpersonal
behavior
✔✔What is cultural psychology? - ✔✔how cultures reflect and form the psychological
processes of their members
✔✔What is empiricism? - ✔✔the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-
experience.
✔✔What is the scientific method? - ✔✔A theory for finding truth by using empirical
evidence
✔✔What is a theory? - ✔✔A hypothetical explanation of a natural phenomenon
✔✔A hypothesis? - ✔✔A falsifiable prediction made by a theory
✔✔What is an operational definition? - ✔✔A description of a property in concrete,
measurable terms.
✔✔What do measurements need to have? - ✔✔Reliability, Validity & power
✔✔reliability - ✔✔The tendency for an instrument to produce the same measurement
whenever it is used to measure the same thing.
✔✔validity - ✔✔The goodness with which a concrete event defines a property
✔✔What refers to whether a measure is consistent? - ✔✔Validity
✔✔What are demand characteristics - ✔✔those aspects of an observational setting that
cause people to behave as they think someone else wants or expects
