EXIT EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026 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 & easy
Issue: lies, wording of questions, representative sample.
True experiment - correct answer-Only way to prove cause & effect
Independent variable - correct answer-What you're testing
Dependent variable - correct answer-What you're measuring
Random selection - correct answer-How you get sample from population
Random assignment - correct answer-How you divide your sample into groups
Experimental group - correct answer-Get the independent variable
Control group - correct answer-Gets placebo
Placebo - correct answer-Fake drug
Single blind - correct answer-Subject doesn't know which group they're in
Double blind - correct answer-Experimenter and subject don't know what group you're in
Correlational study - correct answer-How one variable relates/affects another variable
Correlation - correct answer-Is not causation
Positive correlation - correct answer-Same direction
Negative correlation - correct answer-Opposite direction
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 & easy
Issue: lies, wording of questions, representative sample.
True experiment - correct answer-Only way to prove cause & effect
Independent variable - correct answer-What you're testing
Dependent variable - correct answer-What you're measuring
Random selection - correct answer-How you get sample from population
Random assignment - correct answer-How you divide your sample into groups
Experimental group - correct answer-Get the independent variable
Control group - correct answer-Gets placebo
Placebo - correct answer-Fake drug
Single blind - correct answer-Subject doesn't know which group they're in
Double blind - correct answer-Experimenter and subject don't know what group you're in
Correlational study - correct answer-How one variable relates/affects another variable
Correlation - correct answer-Is not causation
Positive correlation - correct answer-Same direction
Negative correlation - correct answer-Opposite direction
