STRAIGHTERLINE PSY120 CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION 2026 FINAL QUESTIONS
AND EXPERT VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED
A+
⩥ What is a theory in the context of the natural world?
Answer: The best understanding of something we have in the natural
world.
⩥ What does a theory explain?
Answer: Why concepts are related.
⩥ Can a theory have evidence?
Answer: Yes, or it could have no evidence (theories are technically never
proven to be true)
⩥ Empirical method
Answer: a way of acquiring knowledge, based on an observation and
experimentation rather than logical arguments, concrete evidence
⩥ What are things that people with psychology degrees can do?
Answer: Therapy
,Counseling
Human resources
Teaching (academia)
Criminal Justice
ALMOST ANYTHING
⩥ Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: German scientist, first to be considered a psychologist
Thought psychology was a study of conscious experience and the goal
was to identify components of consciousness
⩥ Volkerpsychologie
Answer: Written by Wundt, suggested psychology should include the
study of culture
⩥ Introspection
Answer: (internal perception) a process by which someone examines
their own conscious experience, their own thoughts and feelings
⩥ Voluntarism
Answer: People have free will and should know the intentions of
psychological experiments
, ⩥ Structuralism
Answer: early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener
(Wundt's student) focuses on the contents of mental processes rather
than their functions - looks at the STRUCTURES
⩥ William James
Answer: First American psychologist and author of the first psychology
textbook
⩥ Functionalism
Answer: A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and
behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and
flourish.
⩥ What types of studying measures did James use?
Answer: Objective studying measures like recording devices and
examinations of mental activities
⩥ Sigmund Freud
Answer: Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious
causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
"hysteria"
⩥ Psychoanalytic theory
EVALUATION 2026 FINAL QUESTIONS
AND EXPERT VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED
A+
⩥ What is a theory in the context of the natural world?
Answer: The best understanding of something we have in the natural
world.
⩥ What does a theory explain?
Answer: Why concepts are related.
⩥ Can a theory have evidence?
Answer: Yes, or it could have no evidence (theories are technically never
proven to be true)
⩥ Empirical method
Answer: a way of acquiring knowledge, based on an observation and
experimentation rather than logical arguments, concrete evidence
⩥ What are things that people with psychology degrees can do?
Answer: Therapy
,Counseling
Human resources
Teaching (academia)
Criminal Justice
ALMOST ANYTHING
⩥ Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: German scientist, first to be considered a psychologist
Thought psychology was a study of conscious experience and the goal
was to identify components of consciousness
⩥ Volkerpsychologie
Answer: Written by Wundt, suggested psychology should include the
study of culture
⩥ Introspection
Answer: (internal perception) a process by which someone examines
their own conscious experience, their own thoughts and feelings
⩥ Voluntarism
Answer: People have free will and should know the intentions of
psychological experiments
, ⩥ Structuralism
Answer: early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener
(Wundt's student) focuses on the contents of mental processes rather
than their functions - looks at the STRUCTURES
⩥ William James
Answer: First American psychologist and author of the first psychology
textbook
⩥ Functionalism
Answer: A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and
behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and
flourish.
⩥ What types of studying measures did James use?
Answer: Objective studying measures like recording devices and
examinations of mental activities
⩥ Sigmund Freud
Answer: Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious
causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
"hysteria"
⩥ Psychoanalytic theory
