PSYC 101 INTRODUCTION TO
PSYCHOLOGY 2026 EXAMINATION TEST
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉Controlled-Rearing Study. Answer: Known as deprivation study, a
study method which controls how subjects are raised or will study a
subject that has been raised in a controlled environment. An
example -- Gene: raised in extreme deprivation.
◉What question can Controlled-Rearing Studies answer?. Answer: If
we're wondering how something develops or what kind of
experiences are necessary to build something into cognition or into
the mind then what this study does is take this ability away.
-Answers whether or not this ability develops in the absence of the
experience taken away
◉Why are case studies relevant, even when they're unethical?.
Answer: Helps us address and understand ancient questions about
nature
◉Philosophers. Answer: Greeks - knowledge is experience/adjust
child rearing per child or innate/strict discipline
,◉Aristotle on Development. Answer: believed that knowledge
comes from experience, nurture.
◉Plato on Development. Answer: believed that knowledge was
built-in and infants just need to learn how to vocalize it, native.
◉John Locke's Theory. Answer: believed the mind was a blank slate
and is developed through experience. Placed all of his emphasis on
nurture.
◉What was the start of empirical research/data?. Answer: Early
1800s and started because of the need for social reform in the child
labor movement by using LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which kept track
of a study throughout it's lifetime, this work begin by Charles
Darwin
◉Charles Darwin Theory. Answer: Evolution by natural selection
and drew parallels between humans prenatal growth and other
animals.
◉Freud's Theory. Answer: behavior motivated by unconscious,
instinctual drives.
-More than conscious mind, and argued that a majority of thoughts
aren't conscious.
, ◉Universal Developmental Stages. Answer: -The type of drive
changes over development through universal developmental stages.
-Different stages change at specific period of times
◉Positive Findings from Freud. Answer: -Pointed out the mystery of
infantile amnesia.
-Emphasized early experience.
-We have an unconscious mind -- Project Implicit
◉Negative Findings from Freud. Answer: -Overemphasis on
sexuality
-Little or no evidence, claims are too vague to test.
◉Watson's Theory. Answer: -Reaction to Freudian Analysis and
wanted testable theories.
-Coined the behaviorist theory and only wanted to study observable
things -- stimuli, responses, etc.
-NO vague mental constructs: studied the mind but not the mind as a
whole
◉Behaviorism. Answer: - Only talk about observable things
- No vague mental constructs
PSYCHOLOGY 2026 EXAMINATION TEST
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉Controlled-Rearing Study. Answer: Known as deprivation study, a
study method which controls how subjects are raised or will study a
subject that has been raised in a controlled environment. An
example -- Gene: raised in extreme deprivation.
◉What question can Controlled-Rearing Studies answer?. Answer: If
we're wondering how something develops or what kind of
experiences are necessary to build something into cognition or into
the mind then what this study does is take this ability away.
-Answers whether or not this ability develops in the absence of the
experience taken away
◉Why are case studies relevant, even when they're unethical?.
Answer: Helps us address and understand ancient questions about
nature
◉Philosophers. Answer: Greeks - knowledge is experience/adjust
child rearing per child or innate/strict discipline
,◉Aristotle on Development. Answer: believed that knowledge
comes from experience, nurture.
◉Plato on Development. Answer: believed that knowledge was
built-in and infants just need to learn how to vocalize it, native.
◉John Locke's Theory. Answer: believed the mind was a blank slate
and is developed through experience. Placed all of his emphasis on
nurture.
◉What was the start of empirical research/data?. Answer: Early
1800s and started because of the need for social reform in the child
labor movement by using LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which kept track
of a study throughout it's lifetime, this work begin by Charles
Darwin
◉Charles Darwin Theory. Answer: Evolution by natural selection
and drew parallels between humans prenatal growth and other
animals.
◉Freud's Theory. Answer: behavior motivated by unconscious,
instinctual drives.
-More than conscious mind, and argued that a majority of thoughts
aren't conscious.
, ◉Universal Developmental Stages. Answer: -The type of drive
changes over development through universal developmental stages.
-Different stages change at specific period of times
◉Positive Findings from Freud. Answer: -Pointed out the mystery of
infantile amnesia.
-Emphasized early experience.
-We have an unconscious mind -- Project Implicit
◉Negative Findings from Freud. Answer: -Overemphasis on
sexuality
-Little or no evidence, claims are too vague to test.
◉Watson's Theory. Answer: -Reaction to Freudian Analysis and
wanted testable theories.
-Coined the behaviorist theory and only wanted to study observable
things -- stimuli, responses, etc.
-NO vague mental constructs: studied the mind but not the mind as a
whole
◉Behaviorism. Answer: - Only talk about observable things
- No vague mental constructs
