PSYC 1020 Trent UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Define Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The scientific study of behaviour & mental
processes
Mental processes are those phenomena that include... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Thoughts,
feelings, & memories
What do psychologists mean by behaviour? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Any activity of a
person or animal that can be observed & measured
True or false: Psychology started off with a number of different branches - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- False
Define system/perspectives - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Assumptions & theories about how
people work that are clustered together to form that perspective
In the early history of psychology there appear to be how many distinct groups? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Two
What were the two different early perspectives? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Studied
human consciousness & human thought- using a variety of methods
2. Only studied observable & objective behaviour
In the first psychological laboratory who attempted to study in an experiential manner human
consciousness under a variety of conditions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wundt & Others
Who was the founder of psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wundt
Where was Wundt's laboratory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Leipzig, Germany
,When was Wundt's laboratory founded? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1879
What did Wundt insist that psychology use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The scientific
method
Who attempted to study the same phenonomena as Wundt using his method called
structuralism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Titchener
What was the goal of structuralism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- To study the basic
elements or structure of conscious mental experience
What is introspection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Participant reports what he or she felt
after being presented a stimulus
What were the problems with Structuralism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Different
people reported different sensations & perceptions & experiences
2. Same person different experience to same stimulus
Why did functionalism arise? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- As a reaction against
structuralism
What was functionalism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Concerned with how mental
processes function and adapt (in different environments)
Functionalism is based on what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Darwin's theory of evolution
Functionalism was the first to investigate what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Individual
differences
Gestalt psychology is based on what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The idea that form
perception is determined by certain organising properties of the brain
, Perceptual differences are greater than what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The sum of our
sensations
Who were the people behind behaviourism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- John Watson & B.
F. Skinner
Behaviourists believe that psychology should focus only on what? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Observable behaviours & their relationship to events that can be objectively
measured
Behaviourists believe that behaviour is determined primarily by what? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Factors in the environment
Behaviourism can explain behaviour by analysing what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The
conditions that were present before the behaviour occurred & by analysing the consequences
of the behaviour
What is operant conditioning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the importance of reinforcement
in learning & in the shaping & maintaining of behaviour
What is the emphasis in humanistic psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Humanity's
special characteristics: the inherently positive aspects of human nature
Humanistic psychology is concerned with what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A person's
subjective experience of him/herself
What does cognitive psychology focus on? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Examining mental
processes such as memory, problem solving, concept formation, reasoning, language &
perception
What did James Olds study? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Electrical stimulation of the brain
evokes emotional responses in animals
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Define Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The scientific study of behaviour & mental
processes
Mental processes are those phenomena that include... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Thoughts,
feelings, & memories
What do psychologists mean by behaviour? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Any activity of a
person or animal that can be observed & measured
True or false: Psychology started off with a number of different branches - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- False
Define system/perspectives - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Assumptions & theories about how
people work that are clustered together to form that perspective
In the early history of psychology there appear to be how many distinct groups? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Two
What were the two different early perspectives? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Studied
human consciousness & human thought- using a variety of methods
2. Only studied observable & objective behaviour
In the first psychological laboratory who attempted to study in an experiential manner human
consciousness under a variety of conditions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wundt & Others
Who was the founder of psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wundt
Where was Wundt's laboratory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Leipzig, Germany
,When was Wundt's laboratory founded? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1879
What did Wundt insist that psychology use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The scientific
method
Who attempted to study the same phenonomena as Wundt using his method called
structuralism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Titchener
What was the goal of structuralism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- To study the basic
elements or structure of conscious mental experience
What is introspection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Participant reports what he or she felt
after being presented a stimulus
What were the problems with Structuralism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Different
people reported different sensations & perceptions & experiences
2. Same person different experience to same stimulus
Why did functionalism arise? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- As a reaction against
structuralism
What was functionalism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Concerned with how mental
processes function and adapt (in different environments)
Functionalism is based on what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Darwin's theory of evolution
Functionalism was the first to investigate what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Individual
differences
Gestalt psychology is based on what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The idea that form
perception is determined by certain organising properties of the brain
, Perceptual differences are greater than what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The sum of our
sensations
Who were the people behind behaviourism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- John Watson & B.
F. Skinner
Behaviourists believe that psychology should focus only on what? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Observable behaviours & their relationship to events that can be objectively
measured
Behaviourists believe that behaviour is determined primarily by what? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Factors in the environment
Behaviourism can explain behaviour by analysing what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The
conditions that were present before the behaviour occurred & by analysing the consequences
of the behaviour
What is operant conditioning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the importance of reinforcement
in learning & in the shaping & maintaining of behaviour
What is the emphasis in humanistic psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Humanity's
special characteristics: the inherently positive aspects of human nature
Humanistic psychology is concerned with what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A person's
subjective experience of him/herself
What does cognitive psychology focus on? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Examining mental
processes such as memory, problem solving, concept formation, reasoning, language &
perception
What did James Olds study? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Electrical stimulation of the brain
evokes emotional responses in animals
