AP Psychology Jeopardy Round 2 Cognition & Intelligence Developmental Psych Personality Motivation & Emotion Abnormal & Therapy

100 The name for the bell-shaped distribution of intelligence scores in the general population. 

What is Normally Distributed

200 Failing to see that an article of clothing can be inflated as a life preserver is an example of this. 

What is Functional Fixedness Or Being stuck in one Mental Set

300 A person who is mentally tarded, but has one exceptional ability, would be likely to be diagnosed with this. 

What is Idiot Savantism a subset of Autism

400 When one’s attitudes cause predictible behavior. 

What is Self Fulfilling Bias

500 The rules most directly involved in permitting a person to derive meaning from words and sentences. 

Semantics

100 This reflex occurs when a newborn’s cheek is touched. 

What is the Rooting Reflex

200 He conducted a famous study that separated infant monkeys from their mothers at birth and placed them with wire or cloth surrogates. 

Who is Harlow

300 A 30-year old who doesn't want to marry because he is afraid of losing his freedom and independence would be said to be dealing with this stage of Erikson’s psychosocial developmental model. 

What is Intimacy v. Isolation

400 The stage of cognitive development when children acquire object permanence. 

Going from Sensori-motor to Pre-Operational

500 The stage of Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning where a person obeys to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards. 

What is Pre-Conventional

100 According to Freud, this functions on the “reality principle.” 

What is the Ego

200 This theory of personality attempts to describe and classify people in terms of their predispositions to behave in certain ways. 

What is Attributional Theory

300 This is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which one has power over events. 

What is a strong Locus of Control

400 These are Freud’s psychosexual stages in the proper order. 

What is 1. Oral 2. Anal 3. Phallic 4. Latency 5. Genital

500 These are 3 of the Big Five personality factors. 

1. Openness to Experience 2 Conscientiousness 3 Extroversion 4 Agreeableness 5 Neuroticism

100 This theory of emotion emphasizes the simultaneous experience of body response and emotional feeling. 

What is the Schachter Two Factor Theory Also know: Cannon-Bard James Lange Lazarus

200 This is Hans Selye’s theory of how the body adapts to stress, involving three stages – alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. 

What is G.A.S or General Adaptation Syndrome

300 His research demonstrated that although gestures may be culture-specific, certain facial expressions appear to be universal. 

Who is Paul Ekman

400 The term for the body's tendency to maintain a constant internal state, which is the goal of drive reduction. 

What is Homeostasis

500 Electrically stimulating this part of the brain will cause an animal to begin eating. 

Ventromedial Hypothalamus

100 Someone who is continually tense, jittery, and apprehensive for no specific reason would likely be diagnosed with this. 

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder

200 This is the most pervasive of all psychological disorders. 

What are Mood Disorders

300 This category of psychotherapy is known for its nondirective nature. 

What is Client Centered

400 This type of medication appears to work by blocking the activity of dopamine. 

Neuroleptics actually BLOCK dopamine messages of “excitement” -- while SSRI’s increase the amount of Serotonin available to send increased “calm” messages

500 This neurotransmitter is present in overabundant amounts during the manic phase of bipolar disorder. 

Dopamine is usually given as the main culprit for the MANIC part, and Serotonin as the Depressive part