The Grand Tournament #2

Unit 6

100

This is the "child" part of your personality structure according to Freud 

ID

200

This part of your personality structure works on the reality principle, 

Ego

300

These are the two people most associated with the Humanistic Perspective 

Rogers and Maslow 

400

These are the two axis for the Eysenics in the trait perspective 

Extroversion/Introversion 

Stable/Unstable 

500

This is the defense mechanism where you take your "unacceptable" urges and switch them into the opposite. 

Reaction Formation 

Unit 5

100

What is base-rate fallacy? 

Forget the actual odds, when given useless specific information

200

This is when you have the inability to see a problem from a new perspective 

Fixation

300

When you get stuck in the idea that things can only be used a certain way (i.e. you could never use a knife to turn a screw in/out) 

Functional Fixedness 

400

Our tendency to approach a problem a particular way, especially if it has been helpful in the past 

Mental Set 

500

Please identify which heuristic is at play in the following scenario: 

You went to the store planning to only buy a new TV for $200, however when you get there you see that there is a $500 TV on sale for $300, and you decide to get that one instead

Anchoring

Unit 1

100

This is the best experiment design to eliminate bias

Double Blind 

200

Socrates believed what? (double points if you say both)

Mind/Body Separate 

Knowledge innate

300

What is the name of the woman we did our first case study on? 

Andrea Yates

400

Functionalism, an early school of psychology is most associates with who? 

William James 

500

What are the three measures of central tendency? 

Mean, Median, Mode

Unit 2

100

This is the debunked fake science about studying the brain and the idea that its shape/size/bumps can tell us traits about a person

Phrenology

200

What neurotransmitter is involved with Depression? 

Serotonin 

300

What category of drugs is alcohol in? 

Depressant 

400

What neurotransmitter does meth affect? 

Dopamine 

500

These are cells that play a role in protecting neurons, they also play a role in learning 

Glial Cells 

Unit 4

100

These are the structures that allow us to see

Eyes

200

These are the structures that allow you to see color

Cones

300

These are the structures that allow your eyes to see black and white

Rods 

400

This is the Nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain

optical nerve

500

What is your sense of kinestesia? 

Our ability to sense the position and movement of our body/body parts