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The exam consists mostly of factual questions. Make sure you study all of the facts, definitions and concepts well.

Important concepts and experiments in this course are:

  • ego / superego / id
  • bobo doll,
  • behaviorism,
  • psychoanalysis,
  • retrograde amnesia,
  • Standford prison experiment, Milgramm experiment etc. 

Important pioneers of psychology are:

  • Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Darwin, Wundt, Erikson, Galton, James, Pavlov, Skinner, Watson, Freud
  • Pay close attention to Erikson, Freud, Watson and Pavlov, who have regularly returned to the exam in the past

Important opposite theoretical positions in psychology are:

  • cognition / emotion as the basis of human behavior,
  • mind / body problem
  • nature / nurture debate,
  • monism / dualism,
  • realism / idealism,
  • empiricism / skepticism / rationalism,
  • Enlightenment / romance

The exam consists of multiple choice questions. So you don't have to explain anything, but you need to know what the consequences are if someone no longer has a corpus callosum, for example.

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Practice Questions

Question 1: According to materialism you…

A) ...can study cognition because it is caused by neurons.
B) ...can not study cognition, because the mind does not exist, everything is matter and energy.
C) ...see cognition as something that does not exist.

Question 2: One possible interpretation of Pavlov's experiments with dogs is that the dogs learned that they could expect food after the conditioned stimulus, and that this expectation subsequently led to salivation. This interpretation fits best with which approach to learning?

A) Watson's traditional S-R (stimulus-response) approach.
B) The ecological approach.
C) The cognitive-psychological approach.
D) The operant conditioning approach.

Question 3: Which of the following statements is least consistent with the information processing perspective of development?

A) The schemes that children use undergo qualitative changes as they develop.
B) Children learn specific rules that are increasingly advanced when solving certain types of problems.
C) Children can learn more and more complicated behavior because the capacity of their working memory increases.

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Question 1

  • The correct answer is: A
  • Want to read more? Check Chapter 1 What is the background of the study of psychology? in Psychology by Gray

Question 2

  • The correct answer is: C
  • Want to read more? Check Chapter 8 What basic processes underly learning? in Psychology by Gray

Question 3

  • The correct answer is: A
  • Want to read more? Check Chapter 11 How did thought and language develop? in Psychology by Gray
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