PSYCHOLOGY 110 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Frontal lobe (Somatic) - ✔✔- decision making
- problem solving
- social norms
- movement (motor cortex)
✔✔Broca's area - ✔✔speech production
✔✔mirror neurons - ✔✔empathy and perspective
✔✔parietal lobe - ✔✔- feelings of touch, temperature, pain
✔✔temporal lobe - ✔✔- processes auditory information
- language (wernicke's area) and facial recognition
✔✔Occipital lobe - ✔✔processes visual information (color, motion)
✔✔Split brain - ✔✔- the brain reverses sensory info
- left eye=right brain, right eye=left brain
✔✔pituitary gland (hypothalamus) - ✔✔- testosterone (physical growth)
- oxytocin (childbirth)
- Endorphins (reward and pleasure)
✔✔Adrenal glands - ✔✔- epinephrine (fight or flight)
✔✔ Mind - ✔✔processing cognition
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔observed and measurable result of cognition
✔✔Clinical Psychology - ✔✔Diagnoses and treats Psychological problems (depression,
anxiety, phobias)
✔✔Applied Psychology - ✔✔Uses Psych principles to solve real world problems
✔✔Research (Experimental) Psychology - ✔✔Discover basic principles of
behavior/mind (personality, learning)
✔✔Nativist Theory (1800s) - ✔✔People are born with cognitive abilities and not
everything is learned
, ✔✔Darwinian Evolution (1880s) - ✔✔Our environment shapes behavior along with
genes from parents
✔✔School of Structuralism (Wilhelm Wundt) - ✔✔Life is a combination of simple
experiences
✔✔School of Functionalism (William James) - ✔✔Discovered the purpose of experience
✔✔School of Behaviorism (John Watson) - ✔✔-Only study what you can see
-observe changes in behavior
-punishment and reward
✔✔School of Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud) - ✔✔Mental disordered and behavioural
problems stem from "dark" temptations
✔✔Humanistic Psychology (Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow) - ✔✔People are built
for personal growth and to seek their fullest potential
✔✔Behaviorism (John Watson) - ✔✔How changes in environment lead to behavior
✔✔Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) - ✔✔- First woman in Psych
- Made techniques to study memory still used today
✔✔Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) - ✔✔- first woman to get PhD in psych
- studied behavior and conciousness
✔✔Helen Thompson Wooley (1874-1947) - ✔✔- study of sex differences
✔✔Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930) - ✔✔- studied color vision
✔✔Lillien Martin (1851-1943) - ✔✔- studied perception
✔✔Ruth Howard (1900-1997) - ✔✔- first black woman to get PhD
- studied clinical and developmental psych
✔✔Martha Bernel (1931-2001) - ✔✔- first latina to get PhD
- studied ethnic issues
✔✔Modern Psych - ✔✔Study processes such as: memory, learning, and reasoning
✔✔Evolutionary Psych - ✔✔Identifies how behaviors and thought processes have been
molded by evolutionary pressures
✔✔Neurons - ✔✔Communication cells (electrochemical)
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Frontal lobe (Somatic) - ✔✔- decision making
- problem solving
- social norms
- movement (motor cortex)
✔✔Broca's area - ✔✔speech production
✔✔mirror neurons - ✔✔empathy and perspective
✔✔parietal lobe - ✔✔- feelings of touch, temperature, pain
✔✔temporal lobe - ✔✔- processes auditory information
- language (wernicke's area) and facial recognition
✔✔Occipital lobe - ✔✔processes visual information (color, motion)
✔✔Split brain - ✔✔- the brain reverses sensory info
- left eye=right brain, right eye=left brain
✔✔pituitary gland (hypothalamus) - ✔✔- testosterone (physical growth)
- oxytocin (childbirth)
- Endorphins (reward and pleasure)
✔✔Adrenal glands - ✔✔- epinephrine (fight or flight)
✔✔ Mind - ✔✔processing cognition
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔observed and measurable result of cognition
✔✔Clinical Psychology - ✔✔Diagnoses and treats Psychological problems (depression,
anxiety, phobias)
✔✔Applied Psychology - ✔✔Uses Psych principles to solve real world problems
✔✔Research (Experimental) Psychology - ✔✔Discover basic principles of
behavior/mind (personality, learning)
✔✔Nativist Theory (1800s) - ✔✔People are born with cognitive abilities and not
everything is learned
, ✔✔Darwinian Evolution (1880s) - ✔✔Our environment shapes behavior along with
genes from parents
✔✔School of Structuralism (Wilhelm Wundt) - ✔✔Life is a combination of simple
experiences
✔✔School of Functionalism (William James) - ✔✔Discovered the purpose of experience
✔✔School of Behaviorism (John Watson) - ✔✔-Only study what you can see
-observe changes in behavior
-punishment and reward
✔✔School of Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud) - ✔✔Mental disordered and behavioural
problems stem from "dark" temptations
✔✔Humanistic Psychology (Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow) - ✔✔People are built
for personal growth and to seek their fullest potential
✔✔Behaviorism (John Watson) - ✔✔How changes in environment lead to behavior
✔✔Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) - ✔✔- First woman in Psych
- Made techniques to study memory still used today
✔✔Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) - ✔✔- first woman to get PhD in psych
- studied behavior and conciousness
✔✔Helen Thompson Wooley (1874-1947) - ✔✔- study of sex differences
✔✔Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930) - ✔✔- studied color vision
✔✔Lillien Martin (1851-1943) - ✔✔- studied perception
✔✔Ruth Howard (1900-1997) - ✔✔- first black woman to get PhD
- studied clinical and developmental psych
✔✔Martha Bernel (1931-2001) - ✔✔- first latina to get PhD
- studied ethnic issues
✔✔Modern Psych - ✔✔Study processes such as: memory, learning, and reasoning
✔✔Evolutionary Psych - ✔✔Identifies how behaviors and thought processes have been
molded by evolutionary pressures
✔✔Neurons - ✔✔Communication cells (electrochemical)
