Who's Who??
This “Father of Psychology” established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This Greek a philosopher, wrote about the connection between the mind and body.
Who is Plato, Aristotle/ socrates?
This perspective focuses on how we learn observable responses, like rewards and punishments.
What is the behavioral perspective?
This is the first step of the scientific method, where psychologists form a testable prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
The score that appears most frequently in a distribution is called this.
What is the mode?
When you “like” a post on Instagram and get a “like” back, this type of learning through rewards is taking place.
What is operant conditioning (positive reinforcement)?
He is considered the founder of psychoanalysis and believed in the power of the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This American psychologist was the leading figure in functionalism and wrote The Principles of Psychology in 1890.
Who is William James?
This perspective emphasizes how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
What is the cognitive perspective?
In an experiment, the factor that is manipulated or changed by the researcher is called this.
What is the independent variable?
The middle score in a distribution, when the numbers are lined up from lowest to highest, is this.
What is the median?
A school pep rally builds excitement and unity by encouraging students to chant and cheer together. This is an example of what psychological phenomenon?
What is social facilitation (or collective/group behavior)?
Known for his hierarchy of needs, this humanistic psychologist emphasized self-actualization.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This early school of psychology, led by Edward Titchener, focused on breaking down conscious experience into its basic elements.
What is structuralism?
This perspective looks at how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts, a view started by Freud.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
This method of research involves watching and recording behavior in natural environments without interfering.
What is naturalistic observation?
A measure of how spread out the scores are around the mean is called this.
What is the standard deviation?
When advertisers pair their product with a catchy jingle or celebrity, they are relying on this type of conditioning.
What is classical conditioning (association)?
This behaviorist trained “Little Albert” to fear a white rat through classical conditioning.
Who is John B. Watson?
This early perspective, championed by John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner, emphasized the study of observable behavior.
What is behaviorism?
This perspective emphasizes human growth potential, self-actualization, and free will.
What is the humanistic perspective?
Assigning participants to experimental or control groups by chance is called this, and it helps minimize bias.
What is random assignment?
This statistical number tells you the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.
What is the correlation coefficient?
When students follow school dress code or copy the behavior of peers to “fit in,” they are demonstrating this type of social influence.
What is conformity?
This Swiss psychologist is famous for his stages of cognitive development in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This German psychologist founded Gestalt psychology, which stressed that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Who is Max Wertheimer?
This perspective studies how natural selection of traits promotes survival of genes.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
This type of research looks at the relationship between two variables but does not imply causation.
What is a correlational study?
If a correlation is +0.80, what does the positive sign indicate about the relationship between the two variables?
As one variable increases, the other also increases.
Scrolling endlessly on TikTok or Instagram is partly designed around this psychological effect, where unpredictable rewards keep us hooked.
What is a variable ratio schedule of reinforcement?
As the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology, she wrote The Animal Mind and studied animal behavior.
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn?
Do you want me to create the same 6-question Jeopardy ladder for each of the other categories (History, Perspectives, Methods, Data, Real-Life), so you’ll have a full 6x6 board ready to go?
In 1875, this American opened the first psychology teaching lab at Harvard — four years before Wundt’s official lab in Germany.
Who is William James?
This perspective studies how thinking and behavior vary across situations and cultures, shaping norms, roles, and expectations.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
This ethical principle requires psychologists to fully explain the research afterward, especially if deception was involved.
What is a debriefing?
When research results are unlikely due to chance (usually p < .05), they are said to have this.
What is statistical significance?
When people post only their best moments on social media, others may incorrectly believe their peers have “perfect” lives. This distorted thinking comes from what psychological concept?
What is social comparison theory?