PSYCH 104 FINAL EXAM - SCULLY
UALBERTA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2026
Sigmund Freud - ANS Founder of psychoanalysis and focused on the unconscious mind
Psychodynamic Theory - ANS Freudian theory that unconscious forces determine behavior
- Impulses want to be expressed
- Defenses want to hold impulses back
Abraham Maslow - ANS Originator of the hierarchy of needs and focused on personal growth
Humanistic Theory - ANS Prioritizing personal growth with the hierarchy of needs
Hierarchy of Needs - ANS Pyramid of needs growing toward "Self-Actualization" (reaching
your "full potential")
B. F. Skinner - ANS Radical Behaviourism - nature sand nurture effect who you are. Behaviour
modification.
Correlation - ANS look for relationship between variables. Correlation is NOT Causation
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, Positive Correlation - ANS Increase in one variable relates to an increase in the other
Negative Correlation - ANS Increase in one variable relates to a decrease in the other
Experiment - ANS Only way to infer causality
Correlation vs Experiment - ANS Correlation looks for a mutual relationship between
variables. Experiment looks for the causal relationship between variables
Classical Conditioning - ANS Ivan Pavlov - a neutral stimulus comes to signal the occurrence
of another stimulus
Unconditioned Stimulus - ANS Biologically significant stimulus that already has a response
associated with it
Conditioned Stimulus - ANS Previously Neutral Stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned
response
Unconditioned Response - ANS Response associated with Unconditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Response - ANS With enough pairings of the conditioned response with an
unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus will come to elicit the same response as the
paired unconditioned response
Operant Conditioning - ANS Learning that is controlled by the consequences of the
organism's behaviour
Classical vs Operant Conditioning - ANS Classical - Automatic, stim that precede behaviour,
Autonomic NS
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UALBERTA QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2026
Sigmund Freud - ANS Founder of psychoanalysis and focused on the unconscious mind
Psychodynamic Theory - ANS Freudian theory that unconscious forces determine behavior
- Impulses want to be expressed
- Defenses want to hold impulses back
Abraham Maslow - ANS Originator of the hierarchy of needs and focused on personal growth
Humanistic Theory - ANS Prioritizing personal growth with the hierarchy of needs
Hierarchy of Needs - ANS Pyramid of needs growing toward "Self-Actualization" (reaching
your "full potential")
B. F. Skinner - ANS Radical Behaviourism - nature sand nurture effect who you are. Behaviour
modification.
Correlation - ANS look for relationship between variables. Correlation is NOT Causation
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, Positive Correlation - ANS Increase in one variable relates to an increase in the other
Negative Correlation - ANS Increase in one variable relates to a decrease in the other
Experiment - ANS Only way to infer causality
Correlation vs Experiment - ANS Correlation looks for a mutual relationship between
variables. Experiment looks for the causal relationship between variables
Classical Conditioning - ANS Ivan Pavlov - a neutral stimulus comes to signal the occurrence
of another stimulus
Unconditioned Stimulus - ANS Biologically significant stimulus that already has a response
associated with it
Conditioned Stimulus - ANS Previously Neutral Stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned
response
Unconditioned Response - ANS Response associated with Unconditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Response - ANS With enough pairings of the conditioned response with an
unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus will come to elicit the same response as the
paired unconditioned response
Operant Conditioning - ANS Learning that is controlled by the consequences of the
organism's behaviour
Classical vs Operant Conditioning - ANS Classical - Automatic, stim that precede behaviour,
Autonomic NS
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