AP Psychology Jeopardy
Round 1
Methods &
Approaches
Biological
Influences
Sensation &
Perception
Consciousness
100
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100
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200
200
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300
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300
300
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400
400
400
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500
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500
500
States of
Wild Card
100
This is the variable in a study
that a researcher measures.
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What is the Dependent Variable
200
This is the research method
where one person is
examined in great depth.
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What is a Case Study
300
Observing how teenagers behave at
a shopping mall without interfering or
attempting to alter this behavior
would be an example of this type of
research method.
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WHAT IS NATURALISTIC
OBSERVATION?
400
An experimental design that reduces
possible confounding variables
because neither the researcher nor
the participant is aware of the
condition to which the participant is
assigned.
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What is a double blind study
500
He developed the school of
Functionalism and wrote
Principles of Psychology –
one of the earliest psychology
textbooks.
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Who was William James
100
Twin studies have been useful
in attempting to gain insight
into this ongoing debate in
psychology.
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What is Nature vs. Nurture
200
The brain and spinal cord
make up this part of the
nervous system.
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What is the Central Nervous
Systyem
300
This method of studying the
brain uses electrodes to
measure electrical brain wave
activity.
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What is an EEG. You should
also know CAT, PET, fMRI
400
The autonomic nervous
system (ANS) is broken into
these two parts.
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What are the Sympathetic and
Parasympathetic
The Peripheral is broken down
into the Autonomic and the
Somatic
500
This part of the brain is known as the
“sensory switchboard” since it takes
information from all of the senses (except
smell) and sends it to the higher parts of
the brain, and then sometimes sends
information from these parts out to the
cerebellum and medulla.
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What is the Thalamus Gland
100
A quick flash of the message
“Eat popcorn” on a single
frame of a movie reel would
be an example of this type of
stimuli.
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What is Subliminal
200
This is the idea that we only
focus our awareness on a
limited aspect of what we
experience.
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What is Selective Attention
300
These receptor cells are
located near the center of the
retina and detect color and
detail.
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What are Cones
400
According to the YoungHelmholtz trichromatic theory,
these are the three types of
color receptors in the retina.
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What are Red, Blue, Green
500
This is an illusion where
adjacent lights blinking in
succession cause us to
perceive motion.
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What is the Phi Phenomenon
100
This is the stage of sleep that
involves the most vivid
dreaming.
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What is REM
200
A sleep disorder characterized
by suddenly and
uncontrollably lapsing directly
into REM sleep.
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What is Narcolepsy
300
He was the main proponent of the
“wish fulfillment” theory of dreaming
– the idea that dreams represent
unconscious wishes and desires.
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Who is Sigmund Freud
400
This is the deepest stage of
sleep, characterized by delta
waves, that becomes shorter or
nonexistent as the night
continues.
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What is Non-REM or Delta 4
500
Our body’s daily “biological
clock” that functions on a 24hour cycle and is cued by
natural light and darkness.
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What is Circadian Rhythm
100
The psychological perspective
that examines how natural
selection of traits promotes
the perpetuation of one’s own
genes.
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What is Altruism
200
These are the chemicals that
neurons use to communicate
across the synaptic gap.
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What are Neurotransmitters
300
The psychological perspective
that proposes that behavior
comes from unconscious
drives and conflicts.
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What is psychoanalysis
(psycho-dynamism)
400
No longer noticing the cold
temperature of a pool 30
minutes after jumping in is an
example of this.
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What is desentization
500
The term for the way in which
the brain processes multiple
things at the same time.
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What is Parallel Distributive
Processing