PSYC 2301 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Describe the cerebellum - ✔✔= smooth movement + balance + rapid + some
perception and cognition
- volunteer movement lesion (difficult walking, loss balance)
✔✔Describe the thalamus - ✔✔sensory message to cortex (not smell)
✔✔Describe the role of the basal ganglia - ✔✔volunteer movement + curve thalamus +
receive from motor cortex or all area from ceberal cortex => send information to cortex
✔✔Describe the hippocampus - ✔✔new - short time memory
✔✔Describe the corpus collosum - ✔✔connect 2 hemisphere + pass inf bw them
✔✔Describe the Broca's area - ✔✔speech production
✔✔Describe the occipital lobe - ✔✔visual signal (vision and visual perception)
✔✔Define lateralization - ✔✔notion different functions are processed primarily on 1 side
of brain and other
✔✔Describe what happens to the left or right hemisphere after suffering a stroke -
✔✔opposite affect
Harm L -> affect R
Left : Language and Comprehension
Right: Perception and Judgment
✔✔Describe the function of the endocrine system - ✔✔have glands -> produce
hormones into bloodstream -> control body function
arouse, metabolism, growth, sex
✔✔List the functions controlled by the endocrine system - ✔✔pineal : sleep wake
Pituitary: growth
Thyroid: metabolim
adrenal: body reaction
langerhans: digest/ sugar level / insunlin & glucagon
✔✔Describe the role of the pituitary gland - ✔✔release hormon affect other glands +
produce growth hocmon
✔✔ Define Psychology - ✔✔study of mind; study of behavior and mental processing
, ✔✔Describe the scientific method - ✔✔is a way to ask and answer scientific questions
by making observations and doing experiments.
✔✔Why is Psychology defined as a hub science? - ✔✔bc numerous scientific fields
come together in psyc, connect other disciplin
✔✔What are the major roots of Psychology? - ✔✔2: phil and physical science
✔✔What is the relationship between behavior and biology? - ✔✔reciprocal relationship
✔✔How did most early philosophers believe knowledge was gained? - ✔✔sensive/
introspection
✔✔When did Psychology distinguish itself from the discipline of Philosophy? - ✔✔adopt
the scientific method
✔✔Who conducted the first experiment in psychology? - ✔✔wilhelm wundt
✔✔Define structuralism - ✔✔Structuralism is the study of the parts and elements that
make up the mind while functionalism is the processes of the mind
✔✔Identify the founders of Gestalt psychology - ✔✔kurt koffka, max wertheimer,
wolfgang kohler
✔✔Who was William James? - ✔✔wrote principal of PSYC / functionalism/ 1st school in
US
✔✔Define behaviorism - ✔✔on observable, measurable behavior Behaviorism, also
known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all
behaviors are acquired through conditioning. Conditioning occurs through interaction
with the environment. Behaviorists believe that our responses to environmental stimuli
shape our behaviors. -
✔✔Who was Sigmund Freud? - ✔✔wrote unconscious conflict , sex, important of early
childhood experiene
✔✔Who was Abraham Maslow? - ✔✔found 3rd force in PSYC & theory of motivation
✔✔Who was Carl Rogers? - ✔✔found humanistic movement / importance of personal
growth, freewill, selfdome
✔✔Define the perspectives approach - ✔✔different way to look
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Describe the cerebellum - ✔✔= smooth movement + balance + rapid + some
perception and cognition
- volunteer movement lesion (difficult walking, loss balance)
✔✔Describe the thalamus - ✔✔sensory message to cortex (not smell)
✔✔Describe the role of the basal ganglia - ✔✔volunteer movement + curve thalamus +
receive from motor cortex or all area from ceberal cortex => send information to cortex
✔✔Describe the hippocampus - ✔✔new - short time memory
✔✔Describe the corpus collosum - ✔✔connect 2 hemisphere + pass inf bw them
✔✔Describe the Broca's area - ✔✔speech production
✔✔Describe the occipital lobe - ✔✔visual signal (vision and visual perception)
✔✔Define lateralization - ✔✔notion different functions are processed primarily on 1 side
of brain and other
✔✔Describe what happens to the left or right hemisphere after suffering a stroke -
✔✔opposite affect
Harm L -> affect R
Left : Language and Comprehension
Right: Perception and Judgment
✔✔Describe the function of the endocrine system - ✔✔have glands -> produce
hormones into bloodstream -> control body function
arouse, metabolism, growth, sex
✔✔List the functions controlled by the endocrine system - ✔✔pineal : sleep wake
Pituitary: growth
Thyroid: metabolim
adrenal: body reaction
langerhans: digest/ sugar level / insunlin & glucagon
✔✔Describe the role of the pituitary gland - ✔✔release hormon affect other glands +
produce growth hocmon
✔✔ Define Psychology - ✔✔study of mind; study of behavior and mental processing
, ✔✔Describe the scientific method - ✔✔is a way to ask and answer scientific questions
by making observations and doing experiments.
✔✔Why is Psychology defined as a hub science? - ✔✔bc numerous scientific fields
come together in psyc, connect other disciplin
✔✔What are the major roots of Psychology? - ✔✔2: phil and physical science
✔✔What is the relationship between behavior and biology? - ✔✔reciprocal relationship
✔✔How did most early philosophers believe knowledge was gained? - ✔✔sensive/
introspection
✔✔When did Psychology distinguish itself from the discipline of Philosophy? - ✔✔adopt
the scientific method
✔✔Who conducted the first experiment in psychology? - ✔✔wilhelm wundt
✔✔Define structuralism - ✔✔Structuralism is the study of the parts and elements that
make up the mind while functionalism is the processes of the mind
✔✔Identify the founders of Gestalt psychology - ✔✔kurt koffka, max wertheimer,
wolfgang kohler
✔✔Who was William James? - ✔✔wrote principal of PSYC / functionalism/ 1st school in
US
✔✔Define behaviorism - ✔✔on observable, measurable behavior Behaviorism, also
known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all
behaviors are acquired through conditioning. Conditioning occurs through interaction
with the environment. Behaviorists believe that our responses to environmental stimuli
shape our behaviors. -
✔✔Who was Sigmund Freud? - ✔✔wrote unconscious conflict , sex, important of early
childhood experiene
✔✔Who was Abraham Maslow? - ✔✔found 3rd force in PSYC & theory of motivation
✔✔Who was Carl Rogers? - ✔✔found humanistic movement / importance of personal
growth, freewill, selfdome
✔✔Define the perspectives approach - ✔✔different way to look
