PSYCHOLOGY 1000 COMPLETE LATEST
EXAM 1 BASED ACTUAL SET WITH
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Psychological Science - correct answer-✅Study of mind, brain, and behavior
Critical Thinking - correct answer-✅Systematically evaluating information to reach reasonable
conclusions
Culture - correct answer-✅Beliefs, values, rules, norms, and customs within a group of people that
share a language and environment
Nature vs. Nurture - correct answer-✅Arguments concerning whether psychological characteristics are
biologically innate or acquired through education, experience, and culture
Mind vs Body - correct answer-✅Are the mind and body separate and distinct or is the mind simply the
brain's subjective experience?
Dualism - correct answer-✅Descartes said that the mind and body are separate yet intertwined
Monism - correct answer-✅mind = brain
Introspection - correct answer-✅(Wundt) systematic examination of subjective mental experience that
requires people to inspect and report on their thoughts
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer-✅Established the first psychology institute
Structuralism - correct answer-✅(Titchener) Idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its
underlying components
Edward Titchener - correct answer-✅A student of Wundt's that created a school called structuralism
Functionalism - correct answer-✅(James) An approach to psychology concerned with the adaptive
purpose, or function, of mind and behavior
William James - correct answer-✅Was a critic of structuralism and created functionalism
Stream of Consciousness - correct answer-✅Mind consists of ever-changing, continuous series of
thoughts that can not be frozen in time
Evolutionary Theory - correct answer-✅(Darwin) It views the history of a species in terms of the
inherited, adaptive value of physical characteristics, of mental activity and behavior
Charles Darwin - correct answer-✅Published the idea of the evolutionary theory. Presented the ideas of
natural selection and survival of the fittest
Natural Selection - correct answer-✅In evolutionary theory, the idea that those who inherit
characteristics that help them adapt to their particular environments have a selective advantage over
those who do not
Survival of the Fittest - correct answer-✅Species that are better adapted to their environments will
survive and reproduce, their offspring will survive and reproduce, and so on
Gestalt Theory - correct answer-✅(Wertheimer/Kohler) Whole of personal experience is different from
simply the sum of its constituent elements
Max Wertheimer - correct answer-✅Founded Gestalt School and opposed structuralism
Sigmund Freud - correct answer-✅One of the main influences of 20th century psychology; developed
psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis - correct answer-✅A method that attempts to bring the contents of the unconscious into
conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed
Free Association - correct answer-✅A technique where a patient would talk about whatever for
however long he or she wanted
John B. Watson - correct answer-✅Developed behaviorism; believed that nature was all
EXAM 1 BASED ACTUAL SET WITH
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Psychological Science - correct answer-✅Study of mind, brain, and behavior
Critical Thinking - correct answer-✅Systematically evaluating information to reach reasonable
conclusions
Culture - correct answer-✅Beliefs, values, rules, norms, and customs within a group of people that
share a language and environment
Nature vs. Nurture - correct answer-✅Arguments concerning whether psychological characteristics are
biologically innate or acquired through education, experience, and culture
Mind vs Body - correct answer-✅Are the mind and body separate and distinct or is the mind simply the
brain's subjective experience?
Dualism - correct answer-✅Descartes said that the mind and body are separate yet intertwined
Monism - correct answer-✅mind = brain
Introspection - correct answer-✅(Wundt) systematic examination of subjective mental experience that
requires people to inspect and report on their thoughts
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer-✅Established the first psychology institute
Structuralism - correct answer-✅(Titchener) Idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its
underlying components
Edward Titchener - correct answer-✅A student of Wundt's that created a school called structuralism
Functionalism - correct answer-✅(James) An approach to psychology concerned with the adaptive
purpose, or function, of mind and behavior
William James - correct answer-✅Was a critic of structuralism and created functionalism
Stream of Consciousness - correct answer-✅Mind consists of ever-changing, continuous series of
thoughts that can not be frozen in time
Evolutionary Theory - correct answer-✅(Darwin) It views the history of a species in terms of the
inherited, adaptive value of physical characteristics, of mental activity and behavior
Charles Darwin - correct answer-✅Published the idea of the evolutionary theory. Presented the ideas of
natural selection and survival of the fittest
Natural Selection - correct answer-✅In evolutionary theory, the idea that those who inherit
characteristics that help them adapt to their particular environments have a selective advantage over
those who do not
Survival of the Fittest - correct answer-✅Species that are better adapted to their environments will
survive and reproduce, their offspring will survive and reproduce, and so on
Gestalt Theory - correct answer-✅(Wertheimer/Kohler) Whole of personal experience is different from
simply the sum of its constituent elements
Max Wertheimer - correct answer-✅Founded Gestalt School and opposed structuralism
Sigmund Freud - correct answer-✅One of the main influences of 20th century psychology; developed
psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis - correct answer-✅A method that attempts to bring the contents of the unconscious into
conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed
Free Association - correct answer-✅A technique where a patient would talk about whatever for
however long he or she wanted
John B. Watson - correct answer-✅Developed behaviorism; believed that nature was all
