LSU PSYC 2000 EXAM 1 CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Psychology.
Answer: Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
●● Goals of psychology.
Answer: Describe
Explain
Predict
Control
●● Stages of Skill Acquisition.
Answer: 1. Become more proeficient at compotent processes
2. Repition helps sequencing processes
3. Representation of task fundamentally changes
●● Structuralism.
Answer: Early perspective in psychology associated with Wundt and
Titchener, *focus of study is the structure or basic elements of the mind*
,●● Functionalism.
Answer: Early perspective of psychology associated with William James
in which the focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live,
work and play
●● Schema.
Answer: Built with memory
Set of rules for a given context such as a wedding learned through
experience
●● Associations.
Answer: Build the web of memory and make information easier to learn
●● Weber.
Answer: (Pre-psychology) His studies on sensation and touch, along
with his emphasis on good experimental techniques gave way to new
directions and areas of study for future psychologists, physiologists, and
anatomists.
●● Fechner.
Answer: (Pre-psycology) Credited with designing the first experiments
of psychology-designs used for other experiments.
His experiments were on perception and measured stimulus intensity
, ●● Psychophysics.
Answer: The science that was the immediate precursor to psychology
●● Wilhelm Wundt.
Answer: 1879ish - first psychological laboratory in Leipzig to study
mental processes. "father of modern psychology"
Used the method of introspection (separating thoughts) followed by
verbal report. Describe sensations but don't make the stimulus error!
●● William James.
Answer: 1890 - American pragmatist - principles of psychology -stream
of consciousness
~functions of the mind; our ways of thinking have grown to shape our
reactions to the world - perceptions, thinking, grief, religious experience.
●● Watson.
Answer: Associated with behaviorism
Had extensive animal research experience. (knew of Pavlov etc..)
~wanted to move psychology out of the lab & into the real world
(education, advertising, etc..)
*Little Albert Experiment*
EVALUATION TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Psychology.
Answer: Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
●● Goals of psychology.
Answer: Describe
Explain
Predict
Control
●● Stages of Skill Acquisition.
Answer: 1. Become more proeficient at compotent processes
2. Repition helps sequencing processes
3. Representation of task fundamentally changes
●● Structuralism.
Answer: Early perspective in psychology associated with Wundt and
Titchener, *focus of study is the structure or basic elements of the mind*
,●● Functionalism.
Answer: Early perspective of psychology associated with William James
in which the focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live,
work and play
●● Schema.
Answer: Built with memory
Set of rules for a given context such as a wedding learned through
experience
●● Associations.
Answer: Build the web of memory and make information easier to learn
●● Weber.
Answer: (Pre-psychology) His studies on sensation and touch, along
with his emphasis on good experimental techniques gave way to new
directions and areas of study for future psychologists, physiologists, and
anatomists.
●● Fechner.
Answer: (Pre-psycology) Credited with designing the first experiments
of psychology-designs used for other experiments.
His experiments were on perception and measured stimulus intensity
, ●● Psychophysics.
Answer: The science that was the immediate precursor to psychology
●● Wilhelm Wundt.
Answer: 1879ish - first psychological laboratory in Leipzig to study
mental processes. "father of modern psychology"
Used the method of introspection (separating thoughts) followed by
verbal report. Describe sensations but don't make the stimulus error!
●● William James.
Answer: 1890 - American pragmatist - principles of psychology -stream
of consciousness
~functions of the mind; our ways of thinking have grown to shape our
reactions to the world - perceptions, thinking, grief, religious experience.
●● Watson.
Answer: Associated with behaviorism
Had extensive animal research experience. (knew of Pavlov etc..)
~wanted to move psychology out of the lab & into the real world
(education, advertising, etc..)
*Little Albert Experiment*
