PSYCHOLOGY PSYC 515 WEEK 8 FINAL
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Developmental Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that
studies human mental and physical growth from the prenatal period
through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.
◉ Physiological/Biological Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology
that investigates the biological basis of human behavior, thoughts,
and emotions.
◉ Experimental Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that
conducts research on basic psychological processes, including
learning, memory, sensation, perception, cognition, motivation, and
emotion.
◉ Personality Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that studies
the differences among individuals in such traits as anxiety,
sociability, self-esteem, the need for achievement, and
aggressiveness.
,◉ Clinical Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that focuses
primarily on the diagnosis, cause, and treatment of psychological
disorders.
◉ Counseling Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that is
primarily concerned with normal problems of adjustment that many
people face at some point.
◉ Social Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that studies how
people influence one another.
◉ Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Answer: Field of
psychology that is concerned with issues such as selecting and
training personnel, improving productivity and working conditions,
and the impact of computerization and automation on workers.
◉ Scientific method. Answer: An approach to knowledge that relies
on collecting data, generating a theory to explain the data, producing
testable hypotheses based on the theory, and testing those
hypotheses empirically.
◉ Theory. Answer: Systematic explanation of a phenomenon; it
organizes known facts, allows people to predict new facts, and
permits people to exercise a degree of control over the phenomenon.
,◉ Hypotheses. Answer: Specific, testable predictions derived from a
theory.
◉ G. Stanley Hall. Answer: Established the first American psychology
laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 1883. The founder and
first president of the APA. Studied child and educational psychology
◉ Edward Bradford Titchener. Answer: Developed the structuralist
theory. His ideas revolved around chemistry and physics, and
reasoned that psychologists should analyze complex experiences in
terms of their simplest forms. He broke consciousness down into
physical sensations, feelings, and images.
◉ William James. Answer: Developed the functionalist theory and
earned degrees in physiology and philosophy. He was greatly
influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and that anatomy
and behavior are a result of natural selection.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt. Answer: Founded the first psychological
laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Studied
voluntarism.
◉ Structuralism. Answer: School of psychology that stressed the
basic units of experience and the combinations in which they occur.
, ◉ Functionalist theory. Answer: Theory of mental life and behavior
that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities
to function in its environment.
◉ Sigmund Freud. Answer: The most controversial pioneer of
psychology. Developed the psychodynamic theory. He believed that
humans are motivated by unconscious instincts, are not aware of
their true motives, and are not entirely in control of thoughts and
behavior.
◉ Psychodynamic theory. Answer: Personality theory contending
that behavior results from psychological forces that interact within
the individual, often outside conscious awareness.
◉ John B. Watson. Answer: Studied behaviorism and conducted the
experiment on baby Albert. He believed that people cannot see,
define, or measure consciousness.
◉ Mary Cover Jones. Answer: Studied behaviorism and life
span/developmental psychology. Used desensitization on baby
Albert.
◉ B.F. Skinner. Answer: Added the ideas of reinforcement and
conditioning to behaviorism. Interested in changing behavior
through conditioning and natural laws of behaviorism.
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Developmental Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that
studies human mental and physical growth from the prenatal period
through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.
◉ Physiological/Biological Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology
that investigates the biological basis of human behavior, thoughts,
and emotions.
◉ Experimental Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that
conducts research on basic psychological processes, including
learning, memory, sensation, perception, cognition, motivation, and
emotion.
◉ Personality Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that studies
the differences among individuals in such traits as anxiety,
sociability, self-esteem, the need for achievement, and
aggressiveness.
,◉ Clinical Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that focuses
primarily on the diagnosis, cause, and treatment of psychological
disorders.
◉ Counseling Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that is
primarily concerned with normal problems of adjustment that many
people face at some point.
◉ Social Psychology. Answer: Field of psychology that studies how
people influence one another.
◉ Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Answer: Field of
psychology that is concerned with issues such as selecting and
training personnel, improving productivity and working conditions,
and the impact of computerization and automation on workers.
◉ Scientific method. Answer: An approach to knowledge that relies
on collecting data, generating a theory to explain the data, producing
testable hypotheses based on the theory, and testing those
hypotheses empirically.
◉ Theory. Answer: Systematic explanation of a phenomenon; it
organizes known facts, allows people to predict new facts, and
permits people to exercise a degree of control over the phenomenon.
,◉ Hypotheses. Answer: Specific, testable predictions derived from a
theory.
◉ G. Stanley Hall. Answer: Established the first American psychology
laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 1883. The founder and
first president of the APA. Studied child and educational psychology
◉ Edward Bradford Titchener. Answer: Developed the structuralist
theory. His ideas revolved around chemistry and physics, and
reasoned that psychologists should analyze complex experiences in
terms of their simplest forms. He broke consciousness down into
physical sensations, feelings, and images.
◉ William James. Answer: Developed the functionalist theory and
earned degrees in physiology and philosophy. He was greatly
influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and that anatomy
and behavior are a result of natural selection.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt. Answer: Founded the first psychological
laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Studied
voluntarism.
◉ Structuralism. Answer: School of psychology that stressed the
basic units of experience and the combinations in which they occur.
, ◉ Functionalist theory. Answer: Theory of mental life and behavior
that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities
to function in its environment.
◉ Sigmund Freud. Answer: The most controversial pioneer of
psychology. Developed the psychodynamic theory. He believed that
humans are motivated by unconscious instincts, are not aware of
their true motives, and are not entirely in control of thoughts and
behavior.
◉ Psychodynamic theory. Answer: Personality theory contending
that behavior results from psychological forces that interact within
the individual, often outside conscious awareness.
◉ John B. Watson. Answer: Studied behaviorism and conducted the
experiment on baby Albert. He believed that people cannot see,
define, or measure consciousness.
◉ Mary Cover Jones. Answer: Studied behaviorism and life
span/developmental psychology. Used desensitization on baby
Albert.
◉ B.F. Skinner. Answer: Added the ideas of reinforcement and
conditioning to behaviorism. Interested in changing behavior
through conditioning and natural laws of behaviorism.
