PYC4812 ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED APLUS
●● What are the goals of our personal belief system?
Answer: To help us survive, maintain positive self-esteem, feel a sense
of control, and find happiness rather than perfectly understand reality.
●● Why are our personal beliefs sometimes wrong?
Answer: Because they rely on intuition, memory, emotions, biases, and
subjective experiences instead of objective evidence.
●● What is the just-world hypothesis?
Answer: The belief that good things happen to good people and bad
things happen to bad people.
●● What is the fundamental attribution error?
Answer: The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to their
personality instead of their situation.
●● What is the self-serving bias?
Answer: The tendency to credit ourselves for successes while blaming
failures on external factors.
,●● What is the availability heuristic?
Answer: Judging how common or likely something is based on how
easily examples come to mind.
●● What is confirmation bias?
Answer: The tendency to seek, remember, and value information that
supports existing beliefs.
●● What are the goals of science?
Answer: To describe phenomena, understand relationships, explain
causes, and predict or control outcomes.
●● What is the human problem?
Answer: Humans naturally make errors because of biases, emotions, and
faulty reasoning.
●● How does science overcome the human problem?
Answer: By using the scientific attitude, empirical testing, systematic
testing, and objective evidence.
●● What makes up the scientific attitude?
Answer: Objectivity, open-mindedness, skepticism, critical thinking,
willingness to admit mistakes, and reliance on evidence.
, ●● What is empirical testing?
Answer: Collecting evidence through observation and measurement
rather than intuition or opinion.
●● Why is empirical testing important?
Answer: It allows conclusions to be based on measurable evidence.
●● What is systematic testing?
Answer: Testing ideas in an organized way to eliminate competing
explanations.
●● Why is systematic testing important?
Answer: It helps identify the most accurate explanation.
●● What is objective evidence?
Answer: Evidence free from opinions, emotions, and personal bias.
●● Why is objective evidence important?
Answer: It produces reliable and trustworthy conclusions.
●● What is the Freud problem?
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED APLUS
●● What are the goals of our personal belief system?
Answer: To help us survive, maintain positive self-esteem, feel a sense
of control, and find happiness rather than perfectly understand reality.
●● Why are our personal beliefs sometimes wrong?
Answer: Because they rely on intuition, memory, emotions, biases, and
subjective experiences instead of objective evidence.
●● What is the just-world hypothesis?
Answer: The belief that good things happen to good people and bad
things happen to bad people.
●● What is the fundamental attribution error?
Answer: The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to their
personality instead of their situation.
●● What is the self-serving bias?
Answer: The tendency to credit ourselves for successes while blaming
failures on external factors.
,●● What is the availability heuristic?
Answer: Judging how common or likely something is based on how
easily examples come to mind.
●● What is confirmation bias?
Answer: The tendency to seek, remember, and value information that
supports existing beliefs.
●● What are the goals of science?
Answer: To describe phenomena, understand relationships, explain
causes, and predict or control outcomes.
●● What is the human problem?
Answer: Humans naturally make errors because of biases, emotions, and
faulty reasoning.
●● How does science overcome the human problem?
Answer: By using the scientific attitude, empirical testing, systematic
testing, and objective evidence.
●● What makes up the scientific attitude?
Answer: Objectivity, open-mindedness, skepticism, critical thinking,
willingness to admit mistakes, and reliance on evidence.
, ●● What is empirical testing?
Answer: Collecting evidence through observation and measurement
rather than intuition or opinion.
●● Why is empirical testing important?
Answer: It allows conclusions to be based on measurable evidence.
●● What is systematic testing?
Answer: Testing ideas in an organized way to eliminate competing
explanations.
●● Why is systematic testing important?
Answer: It helps identify the most accurate explanation.
●● What is objective evidence?
Answer: Evidence free from opinions, emotions, and personal bias.
●● Why is objective evidence important?
Answer: It produces reliable and trustworthy conclusions.
●● What is the Freud problem?
