NEUROSCIENTIFIC BASIS AND PRACTICAL
APPLICATIONS EXAMINATION TEST 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Analytic introspection. Answer: A historical psychological method
where trained individuals meticulously observe and report their
own conscious experiences, breaking them down into basic
elements in response to controlled stimuli.
◉ Discovery of Operant Conditioning. Answer: Developing a
contingency between response and outcome.
◉ Thorndike's law of effect. Answer: Responses that lead to
desirable consequences will be more likely in the future.
◉ Classical conditioning. Answer: Learning that one stimulus
predicts the future presentation of another.
◉ Behaviorism. Answer: Took the 'mind' out of psychology; best
explained in terms of conditioning without reference to the mind.
◉ Skinner Superstitious behaviors. Answer: Superstition can
develop as a result of instrumental conditioning.
, ◉ Dualism. Answer: The physical world and the mental world are
separate.
◉ Sechenov- Reflexes of the brain. Answer: Stimulating the brain
shuts off reflexes, doesn't produce them.
◉ Nerve Net. Answer: Idea that the nerve system is a continuous
network.
◉ Golgi stain. Answer: Stained brain tissue with silver nitrate.
◉ Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Answer: Used golgi stain and newborn
animal tissue to discover individual cells or units that make up the
tissue (neurons).
◉ Edgar Adrian. Answer: Recorded electrical signals from single
sensory 'receptor' neurons.
◉ Neural communication. Answer: Information = frequency of firing.
◉ Level of Analysis. Answer: We do not examine topics of interest
from a single perspective, but rather we look at them from multiple
angles.
APPLICATIONS EXAMINATION TEST 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Analytic introspection. Answer: A historical psychological method
where trained individuals meticulously observe and report their
own conscious experiences, breaking them down into basic
elements in response to controlled stimuli.
◉ Discovery of Operant Conditioning. Answer: Developing a
contingency between response and outcome.
◉ Thorndike's law of effect. Answer: Responses that lead to
desirable consequences will be more likely in the future.
◉ Classical conditioning. Answer: Learning that one stimulus
predicts the future presentation of another.
◉ Behaviorism. Answer: Took the 'mind' out of psychology; best
explained in terms of conditioning without reference to the mind.
◉ Skinner Superstitious behaviors. Answer: Superstition can
develop as a result of instrumental conditioning.
, ◉ Dualism. Answer: The physical world and the mental world are
separate.
◉ Sechenov- Reflexes of the brain. Answer: Stimulating the brain
shuts off reflexes, doesn't produce them.
◉ Nerve Net. Answer: Idea that the nerve system is a continuous
network.
◉ Golgi stain. Answer: Stained brain tissue with silver nitrate.
◉ Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Answer: Used golgi stain and newborn
animal tissue to discover individual cells or units that make up the
tissue (neurons).
◉ Edgar Adrian. Answer: Recorded electrical signals from single
sensory 'receptor' neurons.
◉ Neural communication. Answer: Information = frequency of firing.
◉ Level of Analysis. Answer: We do not examine topics of interest
from a single perspective, but rather we look at them from multiple
angles.
