Psych Approaches
General Knowledge
Biological Bases of Behaviour
History
Social Psych
100
This psychologist is known for his experiments on classical conditioning with dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
100
The death of his dog sets him on a rampage
Who is John Wick
100
One of the brain structures all mammals share.
What is the brain stem or the limbic system.
100
The name of the empire based in Rome.
Roman.
100
Freud's personality theory.
What is psychodynamic theory.
200
This modern psychological approach focuses on mental processes such as memory, problem-solving, and decision-making.
What is the cognitive approach.
200
Yield
200
This imaging technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed images of the brain.
What is an MRI.
200
This climate disaster led to incredible poverty and famine in the prairies during the 1930's.
What is Dustbowl, or drought
200
This personality assessment tool groups human personality into 16 types.
What is Myers-Briggs
300
The approach emphasizing the influence of genetics and the brain on behviour.
What is the biological approach
300
Gala, Fuji, and Honeycrisp
What are apples
300
This concept refers to the brain's ability to reorganize itself, especially after injury.
What is neuroplasticity.
300
The United States bought Alaska from which country?
What is Russia
300
The personality theory associated with self-actualization and goodness.
What is the humanist theory.
400
This approach explain fear of snakes as a behviour that increased human survival over time.
The evolutionary approach
400
This piece of tech launched in 2007 with the slogan: "this is only the beginning." They were right.
What is the iPhone
400
A deficiency of this neurotransmitter, or chemical, is often linked to depression as it regulates mood, appetite, and sleep.
What is serotonin.
400
Purpose of the CN Tower
Radio Tower
400
This term refers to the mental discomfort experienced when a person holds two contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes.
What is cognitive dissonance
500
This part of psychoanalytic/Freudian personality theory operates on the "pleasure principle" and seeks instant gratification.
What is the id.
500
In a manual transmission car, this happens if you do not use the clutch pedal properly.
What is stalling
500
This part of the brain is involved in coordination and balance.
The cerebellum.
500
Who fought in the Hundred Years’ War?
What is Britain and France
500
This happens when we overemphasize personal traits and underestimate situational behaviour.
What is the fundamental attribution error.
600
This approach would study how people remember information for an exam.
What is the cognitive approach.
600
How many players are on a baseball field at one time?
What is 9 players
600
This brain gland is referred to as the master gland, as it regulates hormone deployment and manages the other glands.
What is the pituitary gland.
600
This country, located in Asia, changed its capital cities in the late 1800s. The cities are anagrams.
Tokyo and Kyoto
600
This theory focuses on how people infer the causes of behaviour.
What is attribution theory
700
The sociocultural approach would be interested in this phenomenon: the changing of a person's behaviour due to cultural norms.
What is conformity
700
Who killed Tony Stark’s parents?
Who is the Winter Soldier
700
Damage to this area of the brain results in changes in personality and social behaviour.
The frontal lobe, or prefrontal cortex.
700
The year the war of 1812 ended.
What is 1815
700
The use of ambiguous stimuli, such as abstract images, to assess an individual's personality.
What is the Rorschach test.
800
This Greek philosopher was one of the first to explore the mind-body problem.
Who is Plato.
800
What is this phone? 
Motorola Razr
800
This piece of the brain regulates heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure.
What is the medulla.
800
After it was Byzantium and before it was Istanbul, what was the name of Türkiye's largest city?
What is constantinople
800
A defence mechanism where we attribute our unacceptable behaviour or feelings to someone else.
What is projection
900
Carl Rogers believed that individuals needed this type of acceptance in order to grow and develop a positive self-concept.
What is unconditional positive regard.
900
This pokemon is listed as no.1 in the pokedex.
What is bulbasaur
900
Often referred to as the gateway of the cerebral cortex, this part is responsible for relaying sensory information to the rest of the brain.
What is the thalamus.
900
This device, invented during the western renaissance, allowed people to quickly reproduce books and thus ushered in the era of enlightenment.
What is the printing press
900
The phenomenon leading to people being persuaded to do huge things they otherwise wouldn't.
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
1000
This early school of psychology, founded by Wilhem Wundt, focuses on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components, emphasizing introspection.
What is structuralism.
1000
The last time the Leafs won the Stanley Cup (championship).
What is 1967
1000
The term lateralization.
The phenomenon where certain functions are more dominant in one brain hemisphere than another.
1000
The first handheld Nintendo game was released in 1989. What was it?
What is the Gameboy
1000
According to Asch, the tendency of individuals to conform to a group's judgment, even when they know the answer is incorrect.
What is groupthink.