HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 6TH CANADIAN
EDITION COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ The Roots of Psychology. Answer: Philosophers were here before
psychology
Philosophers asked questions about the mind
Physiologists detailed the anatomy of the brain
◉ Dualism and Descartes. Answer: Argued that mind and body are
separate
If separated, the mind is inherently unknowable
◉ Psychology-Monism. Answer: The mind is a result of brain activity
Use inferences based on behavior
◉ Abnormal. Answer: How events trigger fugue states in dissociative
disorders
◉ Behavioural Genetics. Answer: Examine genetic markers for Bipolar
disorder
,◉ Behavioral Neuroscience. Answer: How estrogen affects recovery
from traumatic brain injury
◉ Cognitive. Answer: How playing violent video games affects working
memory span
◉ Comparative. Answer: How people and pigeons time events
◉ Developmental. Answer: How successful child prodigies are in
adulthood
◉ Personality. Answer: How agreeableness affects life satisfaction
◉ Social. Answer: How ostracism affects future friendships
◉ Wilhelm Wundt. Answer: He wanted to study the immediate
conscious experience
◉ William James. Answer: Founder of functionalism; studied how
humans use perception to function in our environment
, ◉ Structuralism. Answer: Can study the structure of the mind by
breaking it down into elementary parts
Systematic introspection via self-reports
Wilhelm Wundt
◉ Functionalism. Answer: What is the function of that stream of
conscious
William James
◉ Behaviorism. Answer: If you want to understand who someone is, you
want to look at what they do
Helped discover principles of behavior change, reinforcement, and
extinction
B.F Skinner
◉ The Cognitive Revolution. Answer: Heavily influenced by technology
Renewed focus on mental states and internal processes
Reprioritized mental events as explanation for complex cognition
◉ Margaret Floy Washburn. Answer: The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in
psychology in the U.S.
◉ Freud and Psychoanalysis. Answer: People behave in this world by
dictation of Thamos (The death wish) or Levato (The life wish)
EDITION COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ The Roots of Psychology. Answer: Philosophers were here before
psychology
Philosophers asked questions about the mind
Physiologists detailed the anatomy of the brain
◉ Dualism and Descartes. Answer: Argued that mind and body are
separate
If separated, the mind is inherently unknowable
◉ Psychology-Monism. Answer: The mind is a result of brain activity
Use inferences based on behavior
◉ Abnormal. Answer: How events trigger fugue states in dissociative
disorders
◉ Behavioural Genetics. Answer: Examine genetic markers for Bipolar
disorder
,◉ Behavioral Neuroscience. Answer: How estrogen affects recovery
from traumatic brain injury
◉ Cognitive. Answer: How playing violent video games affects working
memory span
◉ Comparative. Answer: How people and pigeons time events
◉ Developmental. Answer: How successful child prodigies are in
adulthood
◉ Personality. Answer: How agreeableness affects life satisfaction
◉ Social. Answer: How ostracism affects future friendships
◉ Wilhelm Wundt. Answer: He wanted to study the immediate
conscious experience
◉ William James. Answer: Founder of functionalism; studied how
humans use perception to function in our environment
, ◉ Structuralism. Answer: Can study the structure of the mind by
breaking it down into elementary parts
Systematic introspection via self-reports
Wilhelm Wundt
◉ Functionalism. Answer: What is the function of that stream of
conscious
William James
◉ Behaviorism. Answer: If you want to understand who someone is, you
want to look at what they do
Helped discover principles of behavior change, reinforcement, and
extinction
B.F Skinner
◉ The Cognitive Revolution. Answer: Heavily influenced by technology
Renewed focus on mental states and internal processes
Reprioritized mental events as explanation for complex cognition
◉ Margaret Floy Washburn. Answer: The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in
psychology in the U.S.
◉ Freud and Psychoanalysis. Answer: People behave in this world by
dictation of Thamos (The death wish) or Levato (The life wish)
