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PORTAGE PSYC 101 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY TEST 1 NEWEST
2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
Which statement would most likely have been made by William
James?
A) "To fully understand the human, one needs to examine
unconscious motivations."
B) "Rather than studying the elements of consciousness,
psychology should study the function that consciousness serves."
C) "If psychology ever hopes to be truly scientific we must study
the basic elements of mental experience."
D) "Human nature is primarily influenced by self-perception, and
that should be the focus of psychology." - ANSWER-"Rather than
studying the elements of consciousness, psychology should study
the function that consciousness serves"
T/F: The psychological perspective that studies how we gather,
encode, and store information is the Cognitive perspective. -
ANSWER-True
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Which of the following is the subfield of psychology that examines
the application of psychological principles to work and business?
A) Business psychology
B) Industrial/organizational psychology
C) Career psychology
D) Work psychology - ANSWER-Industrial/Organizational
psychology
T/F: You must have a doctoral degree in psychology before you
can legally call yourself a "Psychologist" and treat patients without
supervision. - ANSWER-True
T/F: From early in the development of Psychology an important
focus was finding practical uses for psychological findings. -
ANSWER-True
The problem of "qualia" was a particular problem for the research
methods used by
A) Functionalists
B) Structuralists
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C) Behaviorists
D) none of these - ANSWER-Structuralists
A potential problem with surveys is that people may respond to
questions on the basis of what they think the surveyor wants to
hear or what is socially acceptable. A general term for this
problem is
A) unconscious fabrication
B) social dishonesty
C) reactivity
D) any of these - ANSWER-Reactivity
Annalise wants to analyze how second-grade children behave at
recess time. Which of the following research techniques would
give her the most authentic recess behavior?
A) Surveys
B) Archival Research
C) Naturalistic Observation
D) None of these - ANSWER-Naturalistic observation
PORTAGE PSYC 101 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY TEST 1 NEWEST
2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
Which statement would most likely have been made by William
James?
A) "To fully understand the human, one needs to examine
unconscious motivations."
B) "Rather than studying the elements of consciousness,
psychology should study the function that consciousness serves."
C) "If psychology ever hopes to be truly scientific we must study
the basic elements of mental experience."
D) "Human nature is primarily influenced by self-perception, and
that should be the focus of psychology." - ANSWER-"Rather than
studying the elements of consciousness, psychology should study
the function that consciousness serves"
T/F: The psychological perspective that studies how we gather,
encode, and store information is the Cognitive perspective. -
ANSWER-True
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Which of the following is the subfield of psychology that examines
the application of psychological principles to work and business?
A) Business psychology
B) Industrial/organizational psychology
C) Career psychology
D) Work psychology - ANSWER-Industrial/Organizational
psychology
T/F: You must have a doctoral degree in psychology before you
can legally call yourself a "Psychologist" and treat patients without
supervision. - ANSWER-True
T/F: From early in the development of Psychology an important
focus was finding practical uses for psychological findings. -
ANSWER-True
The problem of "qualia" was a particular problem for the research
methods used by
A) Functionalists
B) Structuralists
, 3|Page
C) Behaviorists
D) none of these - ANSWER-Structuralists
A potential problem with surveys is that people may respond to
questions on the basis of what they think the surveyor wants to
hear or what is socially acceptable. A general term for this
problem is
A) unconscious fabrication
B) social dishonesty
C) reactivity
D) any of these - ANSWER-Reactivity
Annalise wants to analyze how second-grade children behave at
recess time. Which of the following research techniques would
give her the most authentic recess behavior?
A) Surveys
B) Archival Research
C) Naturalistic Observation
D) None of these - ANSWER-Naturalistic observation
