EXIT STUDY GUIDE

EXIT EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025 WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTION
What is psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER -scientific study of behavior and mental processes


Biological psych - CORRECT ANSWER -Biological processes that affect behavior and mental processes


Developmental psych - CORRECT ANSWER -Interested in changes from birth to death.


Cognitive psych - CORRECT ANSWER -Focus on mental processes


Ed/school psych - CORRECT ANSWER -Ed psych: research
School psych: apply the research. a lot of jobs available


Industrial organizational psych - CORRECT ANSWER -
"Work psych" study things like pay scale, leadership, stress on the job. Looks to maximize productivity


Quantitative psych - CORRECT ANSWER -Stats people, analyze data.


Sports psych - CORRECT ANSWER -Visualization, relaxation tearing to help athletes. Lack of jobs


Environmental psych - CORRECT ANSWER -
Look at environment to see how it influences behavior and mental processes


2 parts to psychology: - CORRECT ANSWER -Philosophy and physiology


Where did modern psychology start? - CORRECT ANSWER -Leipzig, Germany 1879


Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER -First to say mind and body are separate

,Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER -Structuralism. Nature of the mind/consciousness


Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER -Brought psych to USA. Structuralism. Taught a Cornell


James - CORRECT ANSWER -
Functionalism. Wrote 1st psych book. Started psych at Harvard. Got caught up in spiritualism and left


Watson - CORRECT ANSWER -Behaviorism


Freud - CORRECT ANSWER -Psychoanalytical theory


Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER -Study the parts of the mond


Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER -How the mind adapts/functions to survive


Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER -Educated fuess


Theory - CORRECT ANSWER -


Validity - CORRECT ANSWER -


Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER -


Operational - CORRECT ANSWER -


Naturalistic observation - CORRECT ANSWER -
Watching without interfering in the real world. Issue: subjects can't know they're being watched. Can't c
ontrol other variables. Advantage: real world behavior


Case study - CORRECT ANSWER -Detailed, intensive look at one case. Issue: hard to generalize

, Survey - CORRECT ANSWER -Asking people questions. Advantage: cheap &
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True experiment - CORRECT ANSWER -Only way to prove cause & effect
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Independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER -What you're testing
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Dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER -What you're measuring
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Random selection - CORRECT ANSWER -How you get sample from population
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Random assignment - CORRECT ANSWER -How you divide your sample into groups
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Experimental group - CORRECT ANSWER -Get the independent variable
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Control group - CORRECT ANSWER -Gets placebo
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Placebo - CORRECT ANSWER -Fake drug
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Single blind - CORRECT ANSWER -Subject doesn't know which group they're in
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Double blind - CORRECT ANSWER -Experimenter and subject don't know what group you're in
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Correlational study - CORRECT ANSWER -How one variable relates/affects another variable
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Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER -Is not causation
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Positive correlation - CORRECT ANSWER -Same direction
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Negative correlation - CORRECT ANSWER -Opposite direction
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