Psychology Exam test questions and
answered graded A+
Psychological Science - ANS✅✅Study of mind, brain, and behavior
Critical Thinking - ANS✅✅Systematically evaluating information to reach reasonable conclusions
Culture - ANS✅✅Beliefs, values, rules, norms, and customs within a group of people that share a
language and environment
Nature vs. Nurture - ANS✅✅Arguments concerning whether psychological characteristics are
biologically innate or acquired through education, experience, and culture
Mind vs Body - ANS✅✅Are the mind and body separate and distinct or is the mind simply the
brain's subjective experience?
Dualism - ANS✅✅Descartes said that the mind and body are separate yet intertwined
Monism - ANS✅✅mind = brain
Introspection - ANS✅✅(Wundt) systematic examination of subjective mental experience that
requires people to inspect and report on their thoughts
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅Established the first psychology institute
Structuralism - ANS✅✅(Titchener) Idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its
underlying components
Edward Titchener - ANS✅✅A student of Wundt's that created a school called structuralism
Functionalism - ANS✅✅(James) An approach to psychology concerned with the adaptive purpose,
or function, of mind and behavior
, William James - ANS✅✅Was a critic of structuralism and created functionalism
Stream of Consciousness - ANS✅✅Mind consists of ever-changing, continuous series of thoughts
that can not be frozen in time
Evolutionary Theory - ANS✅✅(Darwin) It views the history of a species in terms of the inherited,
adaptive value of physical characteristics, of mental activity and behavior
Charles Darwin - ANS✅✅Published the idea of the evolutionary theory. Presented the ideas of
natural selection and survival of the fittest
Natural Selection - ANS✅✅In evolutionary theory, the idea that those who inherit characteristics
that help them adapt to their particular environments have a selective advantage over those who do
not
Survival of the Fittest - ANS✅✅Species that are better adapted to their environments will survive
and reproduce, their offspring will survive and reproduce, and so on
Gestalt Theory - ANS✅✅(Wertheimer/Kohler) Whole of personal experience is different from
simply the sum of its constituent elements
Max Wertheimer - ANS✅✅Founded Gestalt School and opposed structuralism
Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅One of the main influences of 20th century psychology; developed
psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅A method that attempts to bring the contents of the unconscious into
conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed
Free Association - ANS✅✅A technique where a patient would talk about whatever for however
long he or she wanted
John B. Watson - ANS✅✅Developed behaviorism; believed that nature was all
answered graded A+
Psychological Science - ANS✅✅Study of mind, brain, and behavior
Critical Thinking - ANS✅✅Systematically evaluating information to reach reasonable conclusions
Culture - ANS✅✅Beliefs, values, rules, norms, and customs within a group of people that share a
language and environment
Nature vs. Nurture - ANS✅✅Arguments concerning whether psychological characteristics are
biologically innate or acquired through education, experience, and culture
Mind vs Body - ANS✅✅Are the mind and body separate and distinct or is the mind simply the
brain's subjective experience?
Dualism - ANS✅✅Descartes said that the mind and body are separate yet intertwined
Monism - ANS✅✅mind = brain
Introspection - ANS✅✅(Wundt) systematic examination of subjective mental experience that
requires people to inspect and report on their thoughts
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅Established the first psychology institute
Structuralism - ANS✅✅(Titchener) Idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its
underlying components
Edward Titchener - ANS✅✅A student of Wundt's that created a school called structuralism
Functionalism - ANS✅✅(James) An approach to psychology concerned with the adaptive purpose,
or function, of mind and behavior
, William James - ANS✅✅Was a critic of structuralism and created functionalism
Stream of Consciousness - ANS✅✅Mind consists of ever-changing, continuous series of thoughts
that can not be frozen in time
Evolutionary Theory - ANS✅✅(Darwin) It views the history of a species in terms of the inherited,
adaptive value of physical characteristics, of mental activity and behavior
Charles Darwin - ANS✅✅Published the idea of the evolutionary theory. Presented the ideas of
natural selection and survival of the fittest
Natural Selection - ANS✅✅In evolutionary theory, the idea that those who inherit characteristics
that help them adapt to their particular environments have a selective advantage over those who do
not
Survival of the Fittest - ANS✅✅Species that are better adapted to their environments will survive
and reproduce, their offspring will survive and reproduce, and so on
Gestalt Theory - ANS✅✅(Wertheimer/Kohler) Whole of personal experience is different from
simply the sum of its constituent elements
Max Wertheimer - ANS✅✅Founded Gestalt School and opposed structuralism
Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅One of the main influences of 20th century psychology; developed
psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅A method that attempts to bring the contents of the unconscious into
conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed
Free Association - ANS✅✅A technique where a patient would talk about whatever for however
long he or she wanted
John B. Watson - ANS✅✅Developed behaviorism; believed that nature was all
