PSYCHOLOGY THEMES AND VARIATIONS
ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ How do we analyse our consciousness?
Answer: by using Introspection
◉ What is Introspection?
Answer: the examination/observation of one's own mental and
emotional processes from training, their direct and immediate
experience
◉ What is a Stimulus?
Answer: Detectable input from the Environment
◉ What are examples of Stimuli?
Answer: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste
◉ What is the problem with Structuralism and Introspection?(Why
is it not realistic)
Answer: It does not match how we actually experience the
world/environment
, ◉ Who is William James?
Answer: Founder of Functionalism
◉ What is Functionalism?
Answer: Investigating the Function/Purpose of Consciousness
◉ What is stream of consciousness?
Answer: Continuous flow of thoughts in our Consciousness.
◉ Who said "Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped
up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly. ... It
is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or 'stream' is the metaphor by
which it is most naturally described."
Answer: William James
◉ Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
Answer: Harvard denied her a degree because she is a women; first
women president of the American Psychological Association(APA)
◉ Who is John Watson?
Answer: Founder of Behaviorism
ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ How do we analyse our consciousness?
Answer: by using Introspection
◉ What is Introspection?
Answer: the examination/observation of one's own mental and
emotional processes from training, their direct and immediate
experience
◉ What is a Stimulus?
Answer: Detectable input from the Environment
◉ What are examples of Stimuli?
Answer: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste
◉ What is the problem with Structuralism and Introspection?(Why
is it not realistic)
Answer: It does not match how we actually experience the
world/environment
, ◉ Who is William James?
Answer: Founder of Functionalism
◉ What is Functionalism?
Answer: Investigating the Function/Purpose of Consciousness
◉ What is stream of consciousness?
Answer: Continuous flow of thoughts in our Consciousness.
◉ Who said "Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped
up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly. ... It
is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or 'stream' is the metaphor by
which it is most naturally described."
Answer: William James
◉ Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
Answer: Harvard denied her a degree because she is a women; first
women president of the American Psychological Association(APA)
◉ Who is John Watson?
Answer: Founder of Behaviorism
