PSYC 2000 DANIEL CAPRON LSU
UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Titchener
Answer: -brought psychology in the form of structuralism to America
●● James
Answer: -functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
●● Watson
Answer: -disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
●● psychologists
Answer: -academic degrees and can do counseling, teaching, research,
and may specialize in any large area of psychology
●● psychiatrists
,Answer: -medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for a
person with a mental disorder
●● are all psychologists therapists?
Answer: No
●● do all therapists have doctoral degrees?
Answer: No
●● what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something
else?
Answer: -statistical technique that allows researchers to discover and
predict relationships between variables of interest
-positive correlations exist when increases in one variable are matched
by increases in the other variable
-cannot be used to prove cause & effect relationships
●● what special kind of conclusion can we make based on an
experiment that we can't make with other types of research designs?
Answer: -experiments are tightly controlled manipulations of variables
that allows researchers to determine cause & effect relationships
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the
other group as comparison
, ●● what features of experiments allow us to make that type of
conclusion?
Answer:
●● dependent variable
Answer: measured behavior or the response of participants
●● independent variable
Answer: the variable that is deliberately manipulated by the
experimenter to see if related changes occur in the behavior or the
responses of the participants and is given to the experimental group
●● random assignment
Answer: -helps control for individual differences both within and
between the groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
●● control groups
Answer: -receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
●● main function of hippocampus
Answer: -part of the brain responsible for the formation of long-term
declarative memories
UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Titchener
Answer: -brought psychology in the form of structuralism to America
●● James
Answer: -functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
●● Watson
Answer: -disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
●● psychologists
Answer: -academic degrees and can do counseling, teaching, research,
and may specialize in any large area of psychology
●● psychiatrists
,Answer: -medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for a
person with a mental disorder
●● are all psychologists therapists?
Answer: No
●● do all therapists have doctoral degrees?
Answer: No
●● what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something
else?
Answer: -statistical technique that allows researchers to discover and
predict relationships between variables of interest
-positive correlations exist when increases in one variable are matched
by increases in the other variable
-cannot be used to prove cause & effect relationships
●● what special kind of conclusion can we make based on an
experiment that we can't make with other types of research designs?
Answer: -experiments are tightly controlled manipulations of variables
that allows researchers to determine cause & effect relationships
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the
other group as comparison
, ●● what features of experiments allow us to make that type of
conclusion?
Answer:
●● dependent variable
Answer: measured behavior or the response of participants
●● independent variable
Answer: the variable that is deliberately manipulated by the
experimenter to see if related changes occur in the behavior or the
responses of the participants and is given to the experimental group
●● random assignment
Answer: -helps control for individual differences both within and
between the groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
●● control groups
Answer: -receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
●● main function of hippocampus
Answer: -part of the brain responsible for the formation of long-term
declarative memories
