JeopardyPsychological Perspective

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Types of Psychological Studies

Experimental Psychology Statistics

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Double Jeopardy

$100 Question from Psychological Perspectives

This school of psychology may explain depression as

being caused from an unconscious childhood

event.

$100 Answer from Psychological Perspectives

What is thePsychoanalytic Perspective?

$200 Question from Psychological Perspectives

John B. Watson is credited with being Founding Father

of this perspective

$200 Answer from Psychological Perspectives

What is Behaviorism?

$300 Question from Psychological Perspectives

This perspective examines how theBody and brain create emotions,

memories, and sensory experiences.

$300 Answer from Psychological Perspectives

What is the Biological Perspective?

$400 Question from Psychological Perspectives

Theorists associated with this perspective emphasize one’s

potential to be happy and fulfilled.It sees people as having control

over their own lives.

$400 Answer from Psychological Perspectives

Who are Humanistic Theorists?

$500 Question from Psychological Perspectives

This perspective emphasizes howwe process, store and retrieve

information.

$500 Answer from Psychological Perspectives

What is the Cognitive Perspective?

$100 Question from Types of Psychologists

They work in mental hospitals, prisons, schools, private offices

and helping people with adjustment problems.

$100 Answer from Types of Psychologists

Who are counseling psychologists?

$200 Question from Types of Psychologists

They conduct a wide range of psychological research.

$200 Answer from Types of Psychologists

Who are experimental psychologists?

$300 Question from Types of Psychologists

They study intelligence, memory, and teaching methods.

$300 Answer from Types of Psychologists

Who are educational psychologists?

$400 Question from Types of Psychologists

They diagnose and recommendtreatment for students with learning

problems.

$400 Answer from Types of Psychologists

Who are school psychologists?

$500 Question from Types of Psychologists

They place job applicants, improve working conditions, and attempt to

find ways to boost production.

$500 Answer from Types of Psychologists

Who are organizational/industrial psychologists?

$100 Question from Types of Psychological Studies

Psychologists who carefully watch chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using a research

method known as this.

$100 Answer from Types of Psychological Studies

What is a naturalistic observation?

$200 Question from Types of Psychological Studies

An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hopes of revealing

universal principles.

$200 Answer from Types of Psychological Studies

What is a case study?

$300 Question from Types of Psychological Studies

This research method would be the MOST appropriate one for investigating the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion.

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$300 Answer from Types of Psychological Studies

What is a survey?

$400 Question from Types of Psychological Studies

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which 2 factors vary together and thus how well either factor predicts

the other.

$400 Answer from Types of Psychological Studies

What is a correlation?

$500 Question from Types of Psychological Studies

The only method that can reveal cause-and-effect

relationships.

$500 Answer from Types of Psychological Studies

What is an experiment?

$100 Question from Experimental Psychology

A sugar coated pill with no medicalproperties.

$100 Answer from Experimental Psychology

What is a placebo?

$200 Question from Experimental Psychology

A testable prediction derived from a scientific theory is

called this.

$200 Answer from Experimental Psychology

What is a hypothesis?

$300 Question from Experimental Psychology

The complete set of cases from which samples may be drawn.

$300 Answer from Experimental Psychology

What is a population?

$400 Question from Experimental Psychology

In an experimental study of the effects of anxiety on self-esteem,

anxiety would be this variable.

$400 Answer from Experimental Psychology

What is the independent variable?

$500 Question from Experimental Psychology

When neither the experimenter nor the subjects know whether the subjects are in the control or

experimental group, thistechnique is being used.

$500 Answer from Experimental Psychology

What is a double blind?

$100 Question from Statistics

The three measures of centraltendency.

$100 Answer from Statistics

What are the mean, mode andmedian?

$200 Question from Statistics

Scores in their original form.

$200 Answer from Statistics

What is raw data?

$300 Question from Statistics

A distribution in which the measures of central tendencies are the same can be said to be

this.

$300 Answer from Statistics

What is normally distributed? Or What is a bell-shaped curve?

$400 Question from Statistics

This is the measure of central tendency that is the MOST sensitive to extreme scores.

$400 Answer from Statistics

What is the mean?

$500 Question from Statistics

This measure of variability tells you how far a number

falls above or below the mean.

$500 Answer from Statistics

What is the standard deviation?

Double JeopardyBrain Develop-

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Learning/ Conditioning

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Final Jeopardy

$200 Question from The Brain

The longest part of the neuron.

$200 Answer from The Brain

What is the axon?

$400 Question from The Brain

This is the lobe of the brain that is involved in motivation, motor

movement, and judgment.

$400 Answer from The Brain

What is the frontal lobe?

$600 Question from The Brain

The part of the brain that regulates temperature,

emotional responses, and visceral responses.

$600 Answer from The Brain

What is the hypothalamus?

$800 Question from The Brain

The master gland of the endocrine system. It releases hormones

responsible for bodily growth and sexual development.

$800 Answer from The Brain

What is the Pituitary Gland?

$1000 Question from The Brain

An X-Ray photograph of the brain.

$1000 Answer from The Brain

What is a CAT scan?

$200 Question from Developmental Psychology

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and

number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.

$200 Answer from Developmental Psychology

What is Conservation?

$400 Question from Developmental Psychology

Female ovaries are these types of sex characteristics.

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$400 Answer from Developmental Psychology

What are primary sex characteristics?

$600 Question from Developmental Psychology

Stranger anxiety typically occurs at the same time as

this skill is acquired.

$600 Answer from Developmental Psychology

What is Object Permanence?

$800 Question from Developmental Psychology

Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and illness can all harm a

fetus. They are called this.

$800 Answer from Developmental Psychology

What are teratogens?

$1000 Question from Developmental Psychology

The process by which certain birds form attachments during a critical period very early in

life is called this.

$1000 Answer from Developmental Psychology

What is imprinting?

$200 Question from Sensation and Perception

The minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular stimulus.

$200 Answer from Sensation and Perception

What is the absolute threshold?

$400 Question from Sensation and Perception

The seven colors of the visual spectrum.

$400 Answer from Sensation and Perception

What are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet?

$600 Question from Sensation and Perception

Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray. They are

necessary for peripheral and twilight vision.

$600 Answer from Sensation and Perception

What are rods?

$800 Question from Sensation and Perception

One of the two types of binocular depth cues.

$800 Answer from Sensation and Perception

What is retinal disparity or convergence?

$1000 Question from Sensation and Perception

This law states the sensory thresholds for detecting

differences are a roughly constant proportion of the size

of the original stimulus.

$1000 Answer from Sensation and Perception

What is Weber’s Law?

$200 Question from Learning and Conditioning

He was the founding father of Behaviorism. He classically conditioned Little Albert to

fear a white rat.

$200 Answer from Learning and Conditioning

Who was John B. Watson?

$400 Question from Learning and Conditioning

This type of conditioning is based on the Law of Effect.

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$400 Answer from Learning and Conditioning

What is Operant Conditioning?

$600 Question from Learning and Conditioning

This type of reinforcement strengthens the behaviors that lead to its removal.

$600 Answer from Learning and Conditioning

What is negative reinforcement?

$800 Question from Learning and Conditioning

Golf instruction that reinforces short putts before attempting to reinforce long

putts best illustrates this process.

$800 Answer from Learning and Conditioning

What is shaping?

$1000 Question from Learning and Conditioning

B.F. Skinner’s work elaborated what E.L. Thorndike had called

this.

$1000 Answer from Learning and Conditioning

What is the Law of Effect?

$200 Question from Potpourri

Of classical and operant conditioning, the one that

involves involuntary responses.

$200 Answer from Potpourri

What is classical conditioning?

$400 Question from Potpourri

Natural opiates that are released in response to pain

and vigorous exercise.

$400 Answer from Potpourri

What are endorphins?

$600 Question from Potpourri

The speed at which a neural impulse travels is increased when

the axon is encased by this.

$600 Answer from Potpourri

What is myelin sheath?

$800 Question from Potpourri

These psychologists studied factors that influenced

perception.

$800 Answer from Potpourri

Who are the Gestalt psychologists?

$1000 Question from Potpourri

This technique involves the use of vibrating atoms and radio signals to produce computer

generated images of the brain’s soft tissues.

$1000 Answer from Potpourri

What is an MRI?

Final Jeopardy

In formulating his theory of psychosocial development, Erikson would have suggested that authoritarian parents are likely to inhibit young children’s development of this

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is initiative and autonomy?