AP Psychology Midterm Jeopardy

History and Research

100

Which event marked the beginning of psychology? (Hint: think about who started psychology.) 

The creation of the psychology lab by Wilhelm Wundt

200

If we want to be able to predict if two variables are related to each other, we would use:

Correlational Research

300

Which perspective would most likely use hypotherapy? 

Psychoanalytic 

400

Which of the psychological perspectives primarily focuses on observation? 

Behaviorism

500

Edith conducts an experiment to see if running has an effect on sleep. She makes her experimental group run a mile every day and asks the participants to rate their sleep quality from 0 to 10. In the first round of her experiment, the average rating is 8.5. In the second round of her experiment, the average rating is 2.3. Is her experiment valid and reliable? 

Her experiment is valid, but not reliable. 

Biology & Consciousness

100

What type of drug is alcohol?

Depressant

200

Which organ is also called the "master gland" of the body? 

Pituitary gland

300

Which method for examining the brain uses magnetic waves? 

MRI

400

Which genetic disorder only occurs in women, in which they lack an X or a part of an X chromosome? 

Turner syndrome

500

Which level of consciousness are you using right now? Name all of them. 

Conscious, nonconscious, and preconscious. 

Sensation & Perception

100

Where does transduction occur in the ear?

Cochlea (organ of corti)

200

Where does transduction of visual information occur?

Retina (Cones & rods)

300

This idea says that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus.

Weber's Law

400

Theory that says our ability to detect a stimulus depends on intensity, duration, expectations, and background noise.

Signal-detection theory 

500

I see a strange animal in the middle of the street I have never seen before, and I can't figure out what it is. In this moment, which process am I using to perceive this animal? 

BOTH top-down and bottop-up processing. 

Learning

100

What kind of reinforce is a "A" course grade? 

Secondary

200

Using "ROYGBIV" to remember the colors of the rainbow is an example of: 

Mnemonic device

300

True or false: in Tolman's experiment, rats who improved the most were the rats who were awarded from the beginning. 

False - the third group of rats (no reward then reward) improved the most.

400

What is the type of learning in which an involuntary association is formed between two stimuli? 

Classical Conditioning

500

Ian loves to jump in puddles, so he's always hoping that it will rain soon. Which reinforcement schedule is Ian on?

Variable-interval 

Cognition

100

If I have an IQ of 150, and I'm 10 years old, it means my mental age is:

15

200

John refuses to go to Lotte World because he thinks that rollercoaster are too dangerous since some people have died on rollercoasters before. The truth is, rollercoasters are not any more dangerous than getting dog bites. John is using his ________________ and has come to the wrong conclusion. 

Availability heuristics

300

Ricardo has been wrongfully accused of murder and wants to break out of prison. The walls are soft enough to dig through with a spoon, but he never thinks to use the spoon that comes with his dinner. This is because of:

Functional Fixedness

400

What's one reason people might prefer heuristics to algorithms? 

It might be quicker to get to the right answer

500

Ms. Diana choosing to say "most of my students get this question right" instead of "many of my students get this question wrong" to encourage students is an example of: 

Framing