Major Field Test in Psychology UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Focusing on inner sensations, images and feelings.
Wundt used this approach as did James with the stream of consciousness.
Behaviorists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner dismissed
introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior.
Humanistic Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rebelled against both Behaviorism and
Freudian psychology. Pioneers Carl Rogers and Maslow emphasized the importance of
current environmental influences on our growth potential.
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Science of behavior and mental processes.
Nature-nurture issue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The controversy over the relative
contributions of biology and experience to the development of our traits and behaviors.
Biopsychosocial approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Considers the influences of
biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors.
Applied research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- practical research- industrial organizational
psychologists
Hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The tendency to believe after learning an
outcome, that we would have foreseen it. The I knew it all along phenomenon)
Overconfidence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Humans tend to think they know more than
they do.
,Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An explanation using an integrated set of principles that
organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Testable prediction
Case study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Examines one individual in depth in hope of
revealing things true of us all
Naturalistic observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Observing and recording behavior in a
naturally occurring situation without trying to manipulate or control the situation
Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the extent to which two factors vary together.
Positive/negative ranges from -1 to 1. Correlation does not imply causation.
Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Enable to the researcher to focus on the possible
effects of one or more factors by 1) manipulating the factors of interest and 2) holding
constant other factors
Experimental group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- receives a treatment
Control group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- receives a pseudotreatment
double-blind procedure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- neither the participants nor the research
assistants collecting the data will know which group is receiving the treatment
Dendrite - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the neurons busy branching extensions that receive
messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
Axon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The neurons extension that passes messages through its
branching terminal fibers that form junctions with other neurons
Action potential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- short electrical charge that travels down its
axon
, Synapse - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the meeting point between neurons
neurotransmitters - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- chemical messengers that cross the synaptic
gap between neurons. will travel across the synapse and bind to the receiving neuron
Somatic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Enables voluntary control of our
skeletal muscles
Autonomic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- controls our glands and the muscles
of our internal organs
Sympathetic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- arouses and expends energy. will
accelerate your heartbeat, etc.
Parasympathetic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- produces opposite effects it
conserves the energy as it calms you by decreasing your heart beat and lowering your heart
beat.
Adrenal glands - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- on top of the kidneys and release epinephrine
and norepinephrine.
Pituitary gland - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- located in the center of the brain and is
controlled by the hypothalamus: master gland.
brainstem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the oldest part and central core of the brain: is
responsible for autonomic survival
medulla - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the base of the brainstem controls your heartbeat and
breathing
pons - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- helps coordinate movements
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Focusing on inner sensations, images and feelings.
Wundt used this approach as did James with the stream of consciousness.
Behaviorists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner dismissed
introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior.
Humanistic Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rebelled against both Behaviorism and
Freudian psychology. Pioneers Carl Rogers and Maslow emphasized the importance of
current environmental influences on our growth potential.
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Science of behavior and mental processes.
Nature-nurture issue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The controversy over the relative
contributions of biology and experience to the development of our traits and behaviors.
Biopsychosocial approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Considers the influences of
biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors.
Applied research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- practical research- industrial organizational
psychologists
Hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The tendency to believe after learning an
outcome, that we would have foreseen it. The I knew it all along phenomenon)
Overconfidence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Humans tend to think they know more than
they do.
,Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An explanation using an integrated set of principles that
organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Testable prediction
Case study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Examines one individual in depth in hope of
revealing things true of us all
Naturalistic observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Observing and recording behavior in a
naturally occurring situation without trying to manipulate or control the situation
Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the extent to which two factors vary together.
Positive/negative ranges from -1 to 1. Correlation does not imply causation.
Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Enable to the researcher to focus on the possible
effects of one or more factors by 1) manipulating the factors of interest and 2) holding
constant other factors
Experimental group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- receives a treatment
Control group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- receives a pseudotreatment
double-blind procedure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- neither the participants nor the research
assistants collecting the data will know which group is receiving the treatment
Dendrite - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the neurons busy branching extensions that receive
messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
Axon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The neurons extension that passes messages through its
branching terminal fibers that form junctions with other neurons
Action potential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- short electrical charge that travels down its
axon
, Synapse - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the meeting point between neurons
neurotransmitters - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- chemical messengers that cross the synaptic
gap between neurons. will travel across the synapse and bind to the receiving neuron
Somatic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Enables voluntary control of our
skeletal muscles
Autonomic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- controls our glands and the muscles
of our internal organs
Sympathetic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- arouses and expends energy. will
accelerate your heartbeat, etc.
Parasympathetic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- produces opposite effects it
conserves the energy as it calms you by decreasing your heart beat and lowering your heart
beat.
Adrenal glands - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- on top of the kidneys and release epinephrine
and norepinephrine.
Pituitary gland - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- located in the center of the brain and is
controlled by the hypothalamus: master gland.
brainstem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the oldest part and central core of the brain: is
responsible for autonomic survival
medulla - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the base of the brainstem controls your heartbeat and
breathing
pons - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- helps coordinate movements
