2015 Scavenger Hunt by alan feldman NJ
1) Give Erik Erikson's middle name.
2) In what year did Sigmund Freud move to London permanently?
3) Name the first university B.F. Skinner taught at.
4) Give John Watson's middle name.
5) Give the exact title of the book published in 1928 about childcare
that was written by John Watson.
6) Give the full address of the American Psychological Association.
7) List the following psychologists in order of their birth: Piaget Skinner, Rogers, Maslow, and
Bandura.
8) What was the first name of Freud's wife?
9) List six different stage theorists in any order.
10) What psychologist made the Bobo doll famous?
11) Name the first woman president of the American Psychological
Association.
12) What is coulrophobia a fear of?
13) What year was the first AP Psychology test given?
14) Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association?
15) Name three different topics that Robert Sternberg has written books
about.
16) What college did Philip Zimbardo teach at for most of his career?
17) Name the first Black woman to get a PhD in psychology.
18) What was Freud's middle name?
19) In what year did Freud visit Clark University in the United States?
20) What's the name of the Psychology building at Harvard?
21) What year was William James born?
22) What was the name of the graduate linguistic student who studied
Genie and wrote her PhD thesis about her?
23) What famous psychologist did research on enuresis and classical
conditioning?
24) What was Piaget's middle name?
25) What was the name of the female graduate student John Watson had an affair with whom he
later married which caused him to resign from Johns Hopkins?
26) Who won the Nobel Prize who was involved with lobotomies?
27). In what year did Noam Chomsky write his famous review of BF Skinner's
book Verbal Behavior?
28) What building did the Stanford Prison experiment occur in? Give the
specific name.
29) What is the name of the biography of Milgram?
30) Give the titles of the three volumes of BF Skinner's autobiography.
31) What was Harry Harlow's last name before he changed it to Harlow?
32) Give the exact title of the children's book written by Jean Piaget
and Delessert
33) Give the first names of BF skinner's two daughters.
34) Briefly yet accurately describe the Zeigarnik effect.
35) Briefly yet accurately describe the Von Restoff effect.
36) Who is the current APA (American Psychological Association) president?
37) In what year was Dorothy Cantor (of NJ) president of APA.
38) Where will the 2014 APA convention be held?
39) Give the full birth date of BF Skinner.
40) What college does David Myers teach at?
41) A very large psychology conference was held in 1929 in the US. What
was the location of this conference?
42) In 1975 there was a debate between Piaget and another famous scholar.
This debate was held in Italy, name the person Piaget debated. (A book was written about this
debate in 1980)
43) What was Alfred Binet's initial profession? (He was not a psychologist)
44) What famous psychologist (1932) used the story The War of the Ghosts to study memory?
45) What was Kenneth Clark's middle name?
46) In what year did Beverly Prosser receive her PhD?
47) What is the name of Jung's psychology?
48) In 1896 this psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania opened what is considered the
first psychological clinic in the world.
49) Who left the University of Freiberg in 1892 to take over the psychology laboratory at Harvard
University?
50) Who wrote the first book on the topic of school psychology on 1930?
51) What hospital was Jean Martin Charcot working at in Paris when Freud went to study with
him?
52) Who was Freud's personal physician in 1939?
53) Who did Kenneth Clark get his PhD from in 1940? (Name his mentor-not the school)
54) What was the name of the real Rain Man?
55) What is the first name of the brother of Genie (the feral child)?
56) What were the first names of Genie's parents?
57) What book written by a famous intelligence researcher is an account to of the history of the
cognitive psychology movement? (Published in 1984)
58) What high school in NJ did Robert Sternberg graduate from?
59) Sternberg made up a test with the acronym STOMP. What does each letter in the acronym
stand for?
60) Where is the AP psychology test being graded in 2014?
61) What was the name of the movie show once in 1976 on CBS that was a recreation of the
Milgram experiment?
62) What well known actor played the part of Milgram in this movie?
63) What is he name of the controversial 2003 movie made in Germany (in German with English
sub titles) about the Zimbardo prison study?
64) Within 30 pages how long was Kohlberg's PhD thesis?
65) Give the full name of the man convicted of killing Kitty Genovese.
66) What two psychologists started to study the bystander effect after the Genovese murder?
(Hint-initials are B.L. and J. D.)
67) What important book did Carol Gilligan write in 1982?
68) Who coined the term schizophrenia?
69) Who developed the modern concept of homeostasis?
70) What is the first name of Erik Erikson's son who is a professor at Yale?
71) What psychologist is the founder of attribution theory?
72) What psychologist is best known for his theory of personal constructs?
73) In what year did Konrad Lorenz win the Nobel Prize?
74) Give the last name of the husband and wife team who singly and jointly write scholarly books
about philosophy and the brain? They both have 2 doctorates-one in neuroscience and one in
philosophy.
75) What Nobel Prize winner once attempted to develop a pill that would cause an individual to
forge the last 24 hours?
76) Give the first sentence of Watson's famous address on behaviorism at Columbia in 1913.
77) Which psychologist who received his doctorate from BF Skinner later studied language in
chimpanzees and named his chimp Nim Chimpsky?
78) Who wrote to Freud about her dream in 1927? (Ludy Benjamin published Article about this
in the journal American Psychologist)
79) In what year was Lewis Terman President of APA?
80) What social scientist (1864-1924) developed the term, "the looking glass self"?
81) The Blacky Test (projective) uses a series of cartoons about what type of animal?
82) Name the husband and wife (developmental psychologists) couple honored in 1980 by The
American Psychological Association with their Gold Medal Award?
83) Name the city and country of Piaget's birth.
84) Who founded the Harvard Psychological clinic in 1927?
85) What social psychologist made up the term familiar stranger?
86) What psychoanalyst (First name Rueben) was an international chess mater who played Bobby
Fischer when Bobby was a teenager?
87) What psychologist is credited wit the phrase related to memory, "The magic number 7?"
88) What book about intelligence (written by R.H. and C.M.) published in 1994 created great
controversy?
89) What leading introductory psychology textbook author wrote a book on happiness? (He is
also an avid basketball player).
90) Describe the role of Dr. Liz Hammer at the AP Psychology reading.
91) What is Noam Chomsky's middle name?
92) What famous British psychiatrist was known for his ground-breaking work on attachment
theory?
93) What was the name of Piaget's long time academic collaborator?
94) In what university are the History of Psychology Archives located?
95) How many films did Milgram produce?
96) What famous Gestalt psychologist was born on January 21 1887?
97) What famous psychologist was fired from the University of California Berkeley for not
signing a loyalty oath?
98) What is the significance of the name Gua in psychology?
99) In what year and from what school did Washburn receive her PhD?
100) Which NYU psychologist recently wrote a book about learning how to play the guitar as an
adult?
101) What social scientist formulated the double bind theory of schizophrenia? (The theory has
been discounted)
102) In 1957 the marketer James Vicary claimed what advertising technique was effective?
103) Briefly describe the Hawthorne Effect.
104)Which psychologist is considered the "mother of Behavior therapy"?
She lived from 1897 to 1987
105) Which two famous psychologists founded the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard
University in 1960?
106) Name one of the two psychologists that first systematically studied the use of token
economies in 1961 in Anna State Hospital in Illinois.
107) In which 1965 book did Chomsky first postulate his LAD (language acquisition device?)
108) What is the Capgras syndrome?
109) Who proposed the five stages of grief?
110) What well-known book about minority representation in psychology was write n 1976 by
Robert Guthrie?
111) In what year was Paul Ekman born?
112) Which two psychologists received the National Medal of Science in the 1960s?
113) Name the two psychologists from the University of Toronto that proposed the levels of
processing model in 1972
114) Name the collaborator of Daniel Kahneman that studied heuristics with him.
115) Guy Woodruff and this psychologist described detail the theory of mind phenomenon in
1968.
116) What famous book by a woman psychologist in 1982 counted Kohlberg's research on moral
development. It describes an ethic of care.
117) In which book did Howard Gardner first describe multiple intelligences?
118) Which psychologist who lived from 1909-2002 was considered a developer of biofeedback?
119) What mathematician coined the term cybernetics-a field that has major implication s for
psychology?
120) Which engineer made up signal detection theory?