AP Psychology Jeopardy Round 1

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AP Psychology JeopardyRound 1
Methods Approaches Biological Influences Sensation Perception States of Consciousness Wild Card
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200 200 200 200 200
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100This is the variable in a study that a
researcher measures.

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200 This is the research method where one person
is examined in great depth.

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300 Observing how teenagers behave at a shopping
mall without interfering or attempting to alter
this behavior would be an example of this type of
research method.
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5
400 An experimental design that reduces possible
confounding variables because neither the
researcher nor the participant is aware of the
condition to which the participant is assigned.

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500 He developed the school of Functionalism and
wrote Principles of Psychology one of the
earliest psychology textbooks.
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100 Twin studies have been useful in attempting
to gain insight into this ongoing debate in
psychology.
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8
200 The brain and spinal cord make up this part
of the nervous system.
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300 This method of studying the brain uses
electrodes to measure electrical brain wave
activity.
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10
400 The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is broken
into these two parts.
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500 This part of the brain is known as the
sensory switchboard since it takes information
from all of the senses (except smell) and sends
it to the higher parts of the brain, and then
sometimes sends information from these parts out
to the cerebellum and medulla.
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100 A quick flash of the message Eat popcorn on
a single frame of a movie reel would be an
example of this type of stimuli.
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13
200 This is the idea that we only focus our
awareness on a limited aspect of what we
experience.
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300 These receptor cells are located near the
center of the retina and detect color and detail.
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400 According to the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic
theory, these are the three types of color
receptors in the retina.
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500 This is an illusion where adjacent lights
blinking in succession cause us to perceive
motion.
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100 This is the stage of sleep that involves the
most vivid dreaming.
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200 A sleep disorder characterized by suddenly
and uncontrollably lapsing directly into REM
sleep.
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300 He was the main proponent of the wish
fulfillment theory of dreaming the idea that
dreams represent unconscious wishes and desires.
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400 This is the deepest stage of sleep,
characterized by delta waves, that becomes
shorter or nonexistent as the night continues.
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500 Our bodys daily biological clock that
functions on a 24-hour cycle and is cued by
natural light and darkness.
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100 The psychological perspective that examines
how natural selection of traits promotes the
perpetuation of ones own genes.
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200 These are the chemicals that neurons use to
communicate across the synaptic gap.
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300 The psychological perspective that proposes
that behavior comes from unconscious drives and
conflicts.
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400 No longer noticing the cold temperature of a
pool 30 minutes after jumping in is an example of
this.
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500 The term for the way in which the brain
processes multiple things at the same time.
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