Psychology Exam test quizzes and
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
Where did psychology branch out from? - ANS✅✅Physiology and Philosophy
Structuralism - ANS✅✅Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not identified
with anymore)
2 Structuralists - ANS✅✅Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - ANS✅✅Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to their
environment (not identified with anymore)
2 Functionalists - ANS✅✅Darwin and James
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - ANS✅✅Theoretical Propositions,
Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Modern Perspectives - ANS✅✅Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
Psychodynamic - ANS✅✅started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or prove
because of small sample size
Behaviorist - ANS✅✅Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts of
environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - ANS✅✅People are like machines
Cognitive - ANS✅✅Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve information
(Perspective)
, Cognitive Metaphor - ANS✅✅Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - ANS✅✅Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our ancestors
survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - ANS✅✅runners in a race
Biopsychology - ANS✅✅Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
Developmental psychology - ANS✅✅How thought, feeling, and behavior develops through life
span
Social Psychology - ANS✅✅Influence of real or imagined others influence on the individual
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - ANS✅✅Human behavior within an organization as well as
organizational problems (sub-discipline)
Educational Psychology - ANS✅✅Psychological processes in learning environments (sub-discipline)
Health Psychology - ANS✅✅Psychological factors involved in health and disease
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅Nature and treatment of psychological processes leading to
emotional distress
Cognitive Psychology - ANS✅✅Nature of mental process such as thought, memory, language
Personality Psychology - ANS✅✅Enduring patterns of thought, feeling and behavior for types of
people or individuals (sub-discipline)
Theory - ANS✅✅Systematic way of organizing and explaining observations
Variable - ANS✅✅changes across circumstance or varies among individuals
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
Where did psychology branch out from? - ANS✅✅Physiology and Philosophy
Structuralism - ANS✅✅Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not identified
with anymore)
2 Structuralists - ANS✅✅Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - ANS✅✅Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to their
environment (not identified with anymore)
2 Functionalists - ANS✅✅Darwin and James
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - ANS✅✅Theoretical Propositions,
Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Modern Perspectives - ANS✅✅Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
Psychodynamic - ANS✅✅started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or prove
because of small sample size
Behaviorist - ANS✅✅Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts of
environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - ANS✅✅People are like machines
Cognitive - ANS✅✅Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve information
(Perspective)
, Cognitive Metaphor - ANS✅✅Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - ANS✅✅Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our ancestors
survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - ANS✅✅runners in a race
Biopsychology - ANS✅✅Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
Developmental psychology - ANS✅✅How thought, feeling, and behavior develops through life
span
Social Psychology - ANS✅✅Influence of real or imagined others influence on the individual
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - ANS✅✅Human behavior within an organization as well as
organizational problems (sub-discipline)
Educational Psychology - ANS✅✅Psychological processes in learning environments (sub-discipline)
Health Psychology - ANS✅✅Psychological factors involved in health and disease
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅Nature and treatment of psychological processes leading to
emotional distress
Cognitive Psychology - ANS✅✅Nature of mental process such as thought, memory, language
Personality Psychology - ANS✅✅Enduring patterns of thought, feeling and behavior for types of
people or individuals (sub-discipline)
Theory - ANS✅✅Systematic way of organizing and explaining observations
Variable - ANS✅✅changes across circumstance or varies among individuals
