Psychology First Exam Chapter 1-3 Questions with
100% Verified Correct Answers 2024/2025
Psychology - Correct Answer The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Behavior - Correct Answer All outward or overt actions and reactions.
Mental Processes - Correct Answer Internal, covert activity of the mind.
Four Goals of Psychology - Correct Answer Description [what is happening?], Understanding [why is it
happening?], Prediction [when will it happen again?], Control [how can it be changed?]
Willhelm Wundt - Correct Answer The "father of psychology", a physiologist, who attempted to apply
scientific principles to the study of the human mind.
objective introspection - Correct Answer the process of examining and measuring one's own
thoughts and mental activities
Edward Titchener - Correct Answer A student of Wundt and created structuralism.
structuralism - Correct Answer Focus of the study is the structure or basic elements of the mind.
William James - Correct Answer Discovered functionalism.
functionalism - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer Proposed behaviorism, "the science of behavior" that focuses on
observable behavior.
humanistic perspective - Correct Answer People have free will, the freedom to choose their own
destiny.
correlation - Correct Answer a measure of the relationship between two variables
independent variable - Correct Answer Variable in the experiment that is manipulated.
dependent variable - Correct Answer Variable in an experiment that represents measurable response
or behavior of the subjects in the experiment.
Experimenter effect - Correct Answer tendency of the experimenter's expectations for a study to
unintentionally influence the results of the study.
single-blind study - Correct Answer study in which the subjects do not know if they are in the
experimental or the control group
double-blind study - Correct Answer study in which neither the experimenter nor the subjects know
if the subjects are in the experimental or control group
acetylcholines - Correct Answer mood learning, memory, muscle contraction, Alzheimers disease
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