PYC4808 ECOSYSTEMIC PSYCHOLOGY
ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Empirical Psychologists
Answer: Develop hypotheses through observation and test them
relying on experimentation and data.
◉ Theoretical Psychologists
Answer: See psychology through theories and speculation, relating it
to reason.
◉ Applied Psychologists
Answer: Bring basic research into social settings to solve social
problems.
◉ Hedonic Path
Answer: Maximum pleasure and minimal pain or negative emotions.
Short-term and in-the-moment gratification and pleasure.
◉ Eudaimonic Path
,Answer: Self-actualization, living up to one's virtues and goals
through long-term gratification.
◉ Hippocrates
Answer: Deviated from perceiving mental illnesses as supernatural
and shifted to natural causes, attributing them to physical causes
such as the four bodily humors.
◉ Galen
Answer: Everyone was born with 4 personality or temperament
types. Each one of these was related to the 4 bodily 'humors' of black
bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.
◉ Four Bodily Humors
Answer: Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.
◉ Rene Descartes
Answer: Introduced dualism.
◉ Dualism
Answer: The body, but not the mind, can be studied scientifically.
The mind and body are separate.
, ◉ Thomas Hobbes
Answer: Introduced monism.
◉ Monism
Answer: Both the body and the mind can be studied scientifically.
The mind and body are ONE.
◉ Hermann von Helmholt
Answer: He was a reductionist. Reduced complexities of psychology
to biology to chemistry to physics, etc.
◉ Emil Kraepelin
Answer: Likened mental disorders to physical illnesses. Our physical
being connects to our mental state.
◉ Jean Charcot
Answer: Could cure nervous disorders with hypnosis.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: Founded the first laboratory dedicated to scientific study of
the mind, 'atoms of the mind' or 'basic elements' (sensations and
feelings).
ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Empirical Psychologists
Answer: Develop hypotheses through observation and test them
relying on experimentation and data.
◉ Theoretical Psychologists
Answer: See psychology through theories and speculation, relating it
to reason.
◉ Applied Psychologists
Answer: Bring basic research into social settings to solve social
problems.
◉ Hedonic Path
Answer: Maximum pleasure and minimal pain or negative emotions.
Short-term and in-the-moment gratification and pleasure.
◉ Eudaimonic Path
,Answer: Self-actualization, living up to one's virtues and goals
through long-term gratification.
◉ Hippocrates
Answer: Deviated from perceiving mental illnesses as supernatural
and shifted to natural causes, attributing them to physical causes
such as the four bodily humors.
◉ Galen
Answer: Everyone was born with 4 personality or temperament
types. Each one of these was related to the 4 bodily 'humors' of black
bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.
◉ Four Bodily Humors
Answer: Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.
◉ Rene Descartes
Answer: Introduced dualism.
◉ Dualism
Answer: The body, but not the mind, can be studied scientifically.
The mind and body are separate.
, ◉ Thomas Hobbes
Answer: Introduced monism.
◉ Monism
Answer: Both the body and the mind can be studied scientifically.
The mind and body are ONE.
◉ Hermann von Helmholt
Answer: He was a reductionist. Reduced complexities of psychology
to biology to chemistry to physics, etc.
◉ Emil Kraepelin
Answer: Likened mental disorders to physical illnesses. Our physical
being connects to our mental state.
◉ Jean Charcot
Answer: Could cure nervous disorders with hypnosis.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: Founded the first laboratory dedicated to scientific study of
the mind, 'atoms of the mind' or 'basic elements' (sensations and
feelings).
