PSY 200 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
What may be referred to as the blue prints of heredity - Answer- The genes
Name two varieties of ghost stories discussed in class - Answer- Local and personal
The study of things that seem to defy scientific explanation - Answer- Parapsychology
Who suggested the adolescence should be considered separate stage of development -
Answer- G. Stanley Hall
Which stage of development represents cognitive maturity? - Answer- Formal
operations
What brain system is like triage system - Answer- Reticular formation
What does the corpus colliding do? - Answer- Joins the right and left hemispheres of the
brain
Chemicals that help to carry impulses across the synapse - Answer- neurotransmitters
The scientific study of human and animal behavior - Answer- Psychology
Anything that you do - Answer- Behavior
What is the ultimate goal of psychology - Answer- To control behavior
Who taught the first psychology class - Answer- William James
Who hoped to find the "atoms of thought"? - Answer- The structuralists
Who was the "father of behaviorism" - Answer- John watson
Which group behaviorist emphasize thinking - Answer- The cognitive behaviorist
What German term may be translated as "whole" - Answer- Gestalt
Who was the "father of
psychoanalysis" - Answer- Sigmund Freud
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
What may be referred to as the blue prints of heredity - Answer- The genes
Name two varieties of ghost stories discussed in class - Answer- Local and personal
The study of things that seem to defy scientific explanation - Answer- Parapsychology
Who suggested the adolescence should be considered separate stage of development -
Answer- G. Stanley Hall
Which stage of development represents cognitive maturity? - Answer- Formal
operations
What brain system is like triage system - Answer- Reticular formation
What does the corpus colliding do? - Answer- Joins the right and left hemispheres of the
brain
Chemicals that help to carry impulses across the synapse - Answer- neurotransmitters
The scientific study of human and animal behavior - Answer- Psychology
Anything that you do - Answer- Behavior
What is the ultimate goal of psychology - Answer- To control behavior
Who taught the first psychology class - Answer- William James
Who hoped to find the "atoms of thought"? - Answer- The structuralists
Who was the "father of behaviorism" - Answer- John watson
Which group behaviorist emphasize thinking - Answer- The cognitive behaviorist
What German term may be translated as "whole" - Answer- Gestalt
Who was the "father of
psychoanalysis" - Answer- Sigmund Freud
