INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY FINAL -
HENDRIX COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Psychology - ANS The science of behavior and mental processes
Theory - ANS They organize and explain information that is obtained through research. Based
on this information, we can predict future events
Development - ANS Changes in behavior and thought that create and maintain mature
competencies
Consciousness - ANS Our subjective awareness of our inner thinking and feelings as well as
our external environment
Sensation - ANS The process by which stimuli are detected as sights, sounds, smells, tastes,
or touches
Perception - ANS The process by which we interpret and give meaning to sensations
Learning - ANS A permanent change in behavior or capability that results from experience
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, Motivation - ANS Internal and external factors that arouse, direct, and sustain an action
Memory - ANS The ability to recognize, recall, or relearn previously practiced behavior or
knowledge
Thinking - ANS Processing information to solve problems and make judgments and decisions
Intelligence - ANS Capacity for goal-directed adaptive behavior
Successfully meets challenges and achieves its aims
Involves the ability to profit from experience, solve problems, and reason
Social Psychology - ANS Scientific study of how we influence one another's behavior and
thinking
Personality - ANS A person's internally based characteristic ways of acting and thinking. Id,
ego, and superego according to Freud
Psychotherapy - ANS A systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that uses
psychological principles to influence the client's thoughts, feelings, or behavior to help the client
overcome psychological disorders, adjust living problems, or develop as individuals
Psychological Disorder - ANS Psychological disordered behavior must be judged as atypical,
disturbing, maladaptive, and irrational
Psychoanalytic Theory - ANS Freud's theory that the mind has three levels of awareness
(conscious, preconscious, unconscious), three parts of a person's psyche (id, ego, superego), and
the importance of childhood memories
Unconscious - ANS Freud's term for part of the mind that we cannot become aware of
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HENDRIX COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Psychology - ANS The science of behavior and mental processes
Theory - ANS They organize and explain information that is obtained through research. Based
on this information, we can predict future events
Development - ANS Changes in behavior and thought that create and maintain mature
competencies
Consciousness - ANS Our subjective awareness of our inner thinking and feelings as well as
our external environment
Sensation - ANS The process by which stimuli are detected as sights, sounds, smells, tastes,
or touches
Perception - ANS The process by which we interpret and give meaning to sensations
Learning - ANS A permanent change in behavior or capability that results from experience
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, Motivation - ANS Internal and external factors that arouse, direct, and sustain an action
Memory - ANS The ability to recognize, recall, or relearn previously practiced behavior or
knowledge
Thinking - ANS Processing information to solve problems and make judgments and decisions
Intelligence - ANS Capacity for goal-directed adaptive behavior
Successfully meets challenges and achieves its aims
Involves the ability to profit from experience, solve problems, and reason
Social Psychology - ANS Scientific study of how we influence one another's behavior and
thinking
Personality - ANS A person's internally based characteristic ways of acting and thinking. Id,
ego, and superego according to Freud
Psychotherapy - ANS A systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that uses
psychological principles to influence the client's thoughts, feelings, or behavior to help the client
overcome psychological disorders, adjust living problems, or develop as individuals
Psychological Disorder - ANS Psychological disordered behavior must be judged as atypical,
disturbing, maladaptive, and irrational
Psychoanalytic Theory - ANS Freud's theory that the mind has three levels of awareness
(conscious, preconscious, unconscious), three parts of a person's psyche (id, ego, superego), and
the importance of childhood memories
Unconscious - ANS Freud's term for part of the mind that we cannot become aware of
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