AP Psychology JeopardyRound 1

Methods & Approache

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Biological Influences

Sensation & Perception

States of Consciousness

Wild Card

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100

This is the variable in a study that a researcher measures.

What is the Dependent Variable

200This is the research method

where one person is examined in great depth.

What is a Case Study

300Observing 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.

WHAT IS NATURALISTIC OBSERVATION?

400An 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.

What is a double blind study

500He developed the school of

Functionalism and wrote Principles of Psychology –

one of the earliest psychology textbooks.

Who was William James

100Twin studies have been useful

in attempting to gain insight into this ongoing debate in

psychology.

What is Nature vs. Nurture

200The brain and spinal cord make up this part of the

nervous system.

What is the Central Nervous Systyem

300This method of studying the

brain uses electrodes to measure electrical brain wave

activity.

What is an EEG. You should also know CAT, PET, fMRI

400The autonomic nervous

system (ANS) is broken into these two parts.

What are the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic

The Peripheral is broken down into the Autonomic and the

Somatic

500This 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.

What is the Thalamus Gland

100A quick flash of the message

“Eat popcorn” on a single frame of a movie reel would be an example of this type of

stimuli.

What is Subliminal

200This is the idea that we only focus our awareness on a limited aspect of what we

experience.

What is Selective Attention

300These receptor cells are

located near the center of the retina and detect color and

detail.

What are Cones

400According to the Young-

Helmholtz trichromatic theory, these are the three types of color receptors in the retina.

What are Red, Blue, Green

500This is an illusion where adjacent lights blinking in succession cause us to

perceive motion.

What is the Phi Phenomenon

100This is the stage of sleep that

involves the most vivid dreaming.

What is REM

200A sleep disorder characterized

by suddenly and uncontrollably lapsing directly

into REM sleep.

What is Narcolepsy

300He was the main proponent of the

“wish fulfillment” theory of dreaming – the idea that dreams represent unconscious wishes and desires.

Who is Sigmund Freud

400This is the deepest stage of sleep, characterized by delta

waves, that becomes shorter or nonexistent as the night

continues.

What is Non-REM or Delta 4

500Our body’s daily “biological

clock” that functions on a 24-hour cycle and is cued by natural light and darkness.

What is Circadian Rhythm

100The psychological perspective

that examines how natural selection of traits promotes

the perpetuation of one’s own genes.

What is Altruism

200These are the chemicals that neurons use to communicate

across the synaptic gap.

What are Neurotransmitters

300The psychological perspective

that proposes that behavior comes from unconscious

drives and conflicts.

What is psychoanalysis (psycho-dynamism)

400No longer noticing the cold temperature of a pool 30

minutes after jumping in is an example of this.

What is desentization

500The term for the way in which the brain processes multiple

things at the same time.

What is Parallel Distributive Processing