WLU PS 101 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
A+ LATEST UPDATED 2025
What do Clinical Psychologists do?
✔✔
Provide therapy to individuals
Typically hold a PhD
Often involved in research
Handle the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of serious mental health
conditions
Are not medical doctors (not psychiatrists)
May work in schools to address academic, social, language, or career-related
issues
Can specialize in areas like health, sports, workplace psychology
Other subfields include learning, forensic, social, developmental,
personality, behavioral, and cognitive psychology
What is Applied Research?
✔✔ Scientific investigation focused on solving real-world problems and enhancing
people's daily lives
What is Basic Research?
✔✔ Research aimed at expanding foundational scientific knowledge without
immediate practical application
,What Are Some Types of Research in Psychology?
✔✔
Studies involving animals
Research on sensation and perception
Computer simulations and models
Cellular and biological research
Investigations into thinking and behavior
Wilhelm Wundt - ANSWERS✔✔The founder of psychology, open up the first lab
in Germany, made psych its own field of sci, supported structuralism
Structuralism - ANSWERS✔✔Titchener- student of Wundt...
- belief that all experience could be reduced to basic elements, could identify the
structures, used INTROSPECTION
Introspection - ANSWERS✔✔a method of self-observation in which participants
report their thoughts and feelings, used in STRUCTURALISM
Functionalism - ANSWERS✔✔a school of psychology that focused on how
mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt,
survive, and flourish.
Functionalism opens foors - ANSWERS✔✔- includes behaviour
- includes children, animals, intellectually challenge
- WHY? - these groups cant perform introspection
Darwin - ANSWERS✔✔- influenced functionalism
,- on the origin of species by natural selection
Galton - ANSWERS✔✔- influenced functionalism
- genetic inheritance on mental abilities
William James - ANSWERS✔✔- advocated for functionalism
- mental processes are fluid, not rigid like structuralism
- American
- Founded the American Psychological Association
Behaviourism - ANSWERS✔✔- what you can see is what is measurable, it exists,
no black box
- cognitive revival
Watson and Skinner - ANSWERS✔✔Behaviourists
Why is psychology a science - ANSWERS✔✔it uses the scientific method
Four goals of scientific approach to psychology - ANSWERS✔✔Description,
Explanation, Prediction, Control
Description - ANSWERS✔✔- usually the first step in understanding behaviour or
mental processes
- "what?"
- observe, record, generate data
- naturalistic observation and laboratory observation, Case study
, - ex. curios george looks at a butterfly
Explanation - ANSWERS✔✔- understanding the cause of the behaviour/mental
process
- "why?"
- require testing, re- testing, confirmation
- ex. why is curios george curious?
Prediction - ANSWERS✔✔- conditions which likely cause the behaviour or
congnitive process to occur
- "when?"
- cause and effect- experiment/ quasi- experiment
- ex. curious george always looks under hat before putting it on
Influence - ANSWERS✔✔- change a condition or manipulate something to bring
about desired outcomes
- prevent some behaviors, increase others
- experiment/ quasi experiment
- ex. put curious george to jail decrease his curiousity
Naturalistic Observation PROS - ANSWERS✔✔- seeing behavior in natural
setting, spontaneously produced
- ethical issues prevent other methods
- ex. sitting in playground watching kids play, not controlled b/c a tornado could
come and the kids run to the door (not natural behaviour)
ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
A+ LATEST UPDATED 2025
What do Clinical Psychologists do?
✔✔
Provide therapy to individuals
Typically hold a PhD
Often involved in research
Handle the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of serious mental health
conditions
Are not medical doctors (not psychiatrists)
May work in schools to address academic, social, language, or career-related
issues
Can specialize in areas like health, sports, workplace psychology
Other subfields include learning, forensic, social, developmental,
personality, behavioral, and cognitive psychology
What is Applied Research?
✔✔ Scientific investigation focused on solving real-world problems and enhancing
people's daily lives
What is Basic Research?
✔✔ Research aimed at expanding foundational scientific knowledge without
immediate practical application
,What Are Some Types of Research in Psychology?
✔✔
Studies involving animals
Research on sensation and perception
Computer simulations and models
Cellular and biological research
Investigations into thinking and behavior
Wilhelm Wundt - ANSWERS✔✔The founder of psychology, open up the first lab
in Germany, made psych its own field of sci, supported structuralism
Structuralism - ANSWERS✔✔Titchener- student of Wundt...
- belief that all experience could be reduced to basic elements, could identify the
structures, used INTROSPECTION
Introspection - ANSWERS✔✔a method of self-observation in which participants
report their thoughts and feelings, used in STRUCTURALISM
Functionalism - ANSWERS✔✔a school of psychology that focused on how
mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt,
survive, and flourish.
Functionalism opens foors - ANSWERS✔✔- includes behaviour
- includes children, animals, intellectually challenge
- WHY? - these groups cant perform introspection
Darwin - ANSWERS✔✔- influenced functionalism
,- on the origin of species by natural selection
Galton - ANSWERS✔✔- influenced functionalism
- genetic inheritance on mental abilities
William James - ANSWERS✔✔- advocated for functionalism
- mental processes are fluid, not rigid like structuralism
- American
- Founded the American Psychological Association
Behaviourism - ANSWERS✔✔- what you can see is what is measurable, it exists,
no black box
- cognitive revival
Watson and Skinner - ANSWERS✔✔Behaviourists
Why is psychology a science - ANSWERS✔✔it uses the scientific method
Four goals of scientific approach to psychology - ANSWERS✔✔Description,
Explanation, Prediction, Control
Description - ANSWERS✔✔- usually the first step in understanding behaviour or
mental processes
- "what?"
- observe, record, generate data
- naturalistic observation and laboratory observation, Case study
, - ex. curios george looks at a butterfly
Explanation - ANSWERS✔✔- understanding the cause of the behaviour/mental
process
- "why?"
- require testing, re- testing, confirmation
- ex. why is curios george curious?
Prediction - ANSWERS✔✔- conditions which likely cause the behaviour or
congnitive process to occur
- "when?"
- cause and effect- experiment/ quasi- experiment
- ex. curious george always looks under hat before putting it on
Influence - ANSWERS✔✔- change a condition or manipulate something to bring
about desired outcomes
- prevent some behaviors, increase others
- experiment/ quasi experiment
- ex. put curious george to jail decrease his curiousity
Naturalistic Observation PROS - ANSWERS✔✔- seeing behavior in natural
setting, spontaneously produced
- ethical issues prevent other methods
- ex. sitting in playground watching kids play, not controlled b/c a tornado could
come and the kids run to the door (not natural behaviour)
