PSYC 100: Introduction to Psychology Examination
Transition from relying on your parents to living independently
Loneliness, financial stress, class format, freedom, social opportunities and personal/emotional
problems - answers✔✔Describe factors that impact adjustment to post-secondary education,
and that predict success.
Research design, hypothesis testing, statistics. Multidisciplinary
Principles of psychology with multiple methods of learning - answers✔✔Understand that
psychology is a broad science that integrates diverse approaches and methodologies that have
their roots in other disciplines (e.g., Biology, Mathematics, Philosophy).
Depression, anxiety, alcohol/substance abuse - answers✔✔Learn the scope of mental health
problems faced by University students (including those enrolled in Principles of Psychology) and
how that might affect working with course content.
Advance notifications describing potentially distressing content with the goal to prepare for or
avoid this challenge
Have no impact, or a negative impact on student well-being. May lead to avoidance of content
Need to learn to face things so we can cope - answers✔✔Define trigger warnings and describe
the existing evidence for why they are not used in Principles of Psychology.
Scheduling your time
Keeping focused
Effective studying - answers✔✔Understand and use (where appropriate) strategies to overcome
the academic challenges that this course may present.
,Coping and mental hygiene
Self-care - answers✔✔Understand and use (where appropriate) strategies to overcome the
emotional challenges that this course may present.
Medical advancements, technological innovations - answers✔✔Describe how scientific research
has changed the world.
Systematic observation, empirical methods to understand the physical and biological world
Democratic, cumulative - answers✔✔Describe the key characteristics of the scientific approach.
Immunology, agriculture
Become complacent to changes - answers✔✔Discuss a few of the benefits, as well as problems
that have been created by science.
Explore human nature
Help live better lives - answers✔✔Describe several ways that psychological science has
improved the world.
Informed consent
Confidentiality
Privacy
Benefits - answers✔✔Describe a number of the ethical guidelines that psychologists follow.
Both employ induction → drawing general conclusions from specific observations
Hypotheses → everyday reasoning comes from personal experience, whereas scientists can
draw conclusions - answers✔✔Compare and contrast conclusions based on scientific and
everyday inductive reasoning.
, Accuracy, consistency, scope, simplicity, fruitfulness
Cannot be falsified - answers✔✔Understand why scientific conclusions and theories are
trustworthy, even if they are not able to be proven.
Hypothesize, random assignment
Deductive reasoning
Null and alternative hypotheses - answers✔✔Articulate what it means to think like a
psychological scientist, considering qualities of good scientific explanations and theories.
No such thing as objective theory or data
Facts are information of the world
Values are beliefs about the way the world is or ought to be - answers✔✔Discuss science as a
social activity, comparing and contrasting facts and values.
From greece to the formal proposal of psychology in the late 19th century
Mid 19th century as a starting point "the history of modern psychology" - answers✔✔Describe
the precursors to the establishment of the science of psychology.
Locke and Reid → empiricism
Helmholtz → neural impulse speed
Weber and Fechner → psychophysics - answers✔✔Identify key individuals and events in the
history of American psychology.
Wundt → introspection and consciousness
Structuralism, functionalism - answers✔✔Describe the rise of professional psychology in
America.
Transition from relying on your parents to living independently
Loneliness, financial stress, class format, freedom, social opportunities and personal/emotional
problems - answers✔✔Describe factors that impact adjustment to post-secondary education,
and that predict success.
Research design, hypothesis testing, statistics. Multidisciplinary
Principles of psychology with multiple methods of learning - answers✔✔Understand that
psychology is a broad science that integrates diverse approaches and methodologies that have
their roots in other disciplines (e.g., Biology, Mathematics, Philosophy).
Depression, anxiety, alcohol/substance abuse - answers✔✔Learn the scope of mental health
problems faced by University students (including those enrolled in Principles of Psychology) and
how that might affect working with course content.
Advance notifications describing potentially distressing content with the goal to prepare for or
avoid this challenge
Have no impact, or a negative impact on student well-being. May lead to avoidance of content
Need to learn to face things so we can cope - answers✔✔Define trigger warnings and describe
the existing evidence for why they are not used in Principles of Psychology.
Scheduling your time
Keeping focused
Effective studying - answers✔✔Understand and use (where appropriate) strategies to overcome
the academic challenges that this course may present.
,Coping and mental hygiene
Self-care - answers✔✔Understand and use (where appropriate) strategies to overcome the
emotional challenges that this course may present.
Medical advancements, technological innovations - answers✔✔Describe how scientific research
has changed the world.
Systematic observation, empirical methods to understand the physical and biological world
Democratic, cumulative - answers✔✔Describe the key characteristics of the scientific approach.
Immunology, agriculture
Become complacent to changes - answers✔✔Discuss a few of the benefits, as well as problems
that have been created by science.
Explore human nature
Help live better lives - answers✔✔Describe several ways that psychological science has
improved the world.
Informed consent
Confidentiality
Privacy
Benefits - answers✔✔Describe a number of the ethical guidelines that psychologists follow.
Both employ induction → drawing general conclusions from specific observations
Hypotheses → everyday reasoning comes from personal experience, whereas scientists can
draw conclusions - answers✔✔Compare and contrast conclusions based on scientific and
everyday inductive reasoning.
, Accuracy, consistency, scope, simplicity, fruitfulness
Cannot be falsified - answers✔✔Understand why scientific conclusions and theories are
trustworthy, even if they are not able to be proven.
Hypothesize, random assignment
Deductive reasoning
Null and alternative hypotheses - answers✔✔Articulate what it means to think like a
psychological scientist, considering qualities of good scientific explanations and theories.
No such thing as objective theory or data
Facts are information of the world
Values are beliefs about the way the world is or ought to be - answers✔✔Discuss science as a
social activity, comparing and contrasting facts and values.
From greece to the formal proposal of psychology in the late 19th century
Mid 19th century as a starting point "the history of modern psychology" - answers✔✔Describe
the precursors to the establishment of the science of psychology.
Locke and Reid → empiricism
Helmholtz → neural impulse speed
Weber and Fechner → psychophysics - answers✔✔Identify key individuals and events in the
history of American psychology.
Wundt → introspection and consciousness
Structuralism, functionalism - answers✔✔Describe the rise of professional psychology in
America.
