Psychology Exam quiz test and
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Behavior - ANS✅✅All outward or overt actions and reactions.
Mental Processes - ANS✅✅Internal, covert activity of the mind.
Four Goals of Psychology - ANS✅✅Description [what is happening?], Understanding [why is it
happening?], Prediction [when will it happen again?], Control [how can it be changed?]
Willhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅The "father of psychology", a physiologist, who attempted to apply
scientific principles to the study of the human mind.
objective introspection - ANS✅✅the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and
mental activities
Edward Titchener - ANS✅✅A student of Wundt and created structuralism.
structuralism - ANS✅✅Focus of the study is the structure or basic elements of the mind.
William James - ANS✅✅Discovered functionalism.
functionalism - ANS✅✅The focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work and
play. Influenced the modern fields of educational, evolutionary and industrial/organizational
psychology.
Gestalt Psychology - ANS✅✅Started with Wirtheimer, the "good figure" psychology. Now part of
cognitive psychology and not only focuses on perception but learning, memory, thought processes
and problem solving.
, Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅Theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud. Believed that
nervous disorders were caused by suppressed urges and that early childhood experiences were
significant.
John B. Watson - ANS✅✅Proposed behaviorism, "the science of behavior" that focuses on
observable behavior.
humanistic perspective - ANS✅✅People have free will, the freedom to choose their own destiny.
correlation - ANS✅✅a measure of the relationship between two variables
independent variable - ANS✅✅Variable in the experiment that is manipulated.
dependent variable - ANS✅✅Variable in an experiment that represents measurable response or
behavior of the subjects in the experiment.
Experimenter effect - ANS✅✅tendency of the experimenter's expectations for a study to
unintentionally influence the results of the study.
single-blind study - ANS✅✅study in which the subjects do not know if they are in the experimental
or the control group
double-blind study - ANS✅✅study in which neither the experimenter nor the subjects know if the
subjects are in the experimental or control group
acetylcholines - ANS✅✅mood learning, memory, muscle contraction, Alzheimers disease [when
there is not enough]
dopamine - ANS✅✅attention, learning, movement, cocaine, schizophrenia
norepinephrine - ANS✅✅eating, alertness, wakefulness, depression [too little]
serotonin - ANS✅✅mood, sleep, appetite, aggression, depression [too little]
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Behavior - ANS✅✅All outward or overt actions and reactions.
Mental Processes - ANS✅✅Internal, covert activity of the mind.
Four Goals of Psychology - ANS✅✅Description [what is happening?], Understanding [why is it
happening?], Prediction [when will it happen again?], Control [how can it be changed?]
Willhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅The "father of psychology", a physiologist, who attempted to apply
scientific principles to the study of the human mind.
objective introspection - ANS✅✅the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and
mental activities
Edward Titchener - ANS✅✅A student of Wundt and created structuralism.
structuralism - ANS✅✅Focus of the study is the structure or basic elements of the mind.
William James - ANS✅✅Discovered functionalism.
functionalism - ANS✅✅The focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work and
play. Influenced the modern fields of educational, evolutionary and industrial/organizational
psychology.
Gestalt Psychology - ANS✅✅Started with Wirtheimer, the "good figure" psychology. Now part of
cognitive psychology and not only focuses on perception but learning, memory, thought processes
and problem solving.
, Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅Theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud. Believed that
nervous disorders were caused by suppressed urges and that early childhood experiences were
significant.
John B. Watson - ANS✅✅Proposed behaviorism, "the science of behavior" that focuses on
observable behavior.
humanistic perspective - ANS✅✅People have free will, the freedom to choose their own destiny.
correlation - ANS✅✅a measure of the relationship between two variables
independent variable - ANS✅✅Variable in the experiment that is manipulated.
dependent variable - ANS✅✅Variable in an experiment that represents measurable response or
behavior of the subjects in the experiment.
Experimenter effect - ANS✅✅tendency of the experimenter's expectations for a study to
unintentionally influence the results of the study.
single-blind study - ANS✅✅study in which the subjects do not know if they are in the experimental
or the control group
double-blind study - ANS✅✅study in which neither the experimenter nor the subjects know if the
subjects are in the experimental or control group
acetylcholines - ANS✅✅mood learning, memory, muscle contraction, Alzheimers disease [when
there is not enough]
dopamine - ANS✅✅attention, learning, movement, cocaine, schizophrenia
norepinephrine - ANS✅✅eating, alertness, wakefulness, depression [too little]
serotonin - ANS✅✅mood, sleep, appetite, aggression, depression [too little]
