AP Psychology Jeopardy Round 1 Methods & Approaches Biological Influences Sensation & Perception States of Consciousness Wild Card

100 This is the variable in a study that a researcher measures. 

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

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. 

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. 

500 He developed the school of Functionalism and wrote Principles of Psychology – one of the earliest psychology textbooks. 

100 Twin studies have been useful in attempting to gain insight into this ongoing debate in psychology. 

200 The brain and spinal cord make up this part of the nervous system. 

300 This method of studying the brain uses electrodes to measure electrical brain wave activity. 

400 The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is broken into these two parts. 

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. 

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. 

200 This is the idea that we only focus our awareness on a limited aspect of what we experience. 

300 These receptor cells are located near the center of the retina and detect color and detail. 

400 According to the Young- Helmholtz trichromatic theory, these are the three types of color receptors in the retina. 

500 This is an illusion where adjacent lights blinking in succession cause us to perceive motion. 

100 This is the stage of sleep that involves the most vivid dreaming. 

200 A sleep disorder characterized by suddenly and uncontrollably lapsing directly into REM sleep. 

300 He was the main proponent of the “wish fulfillment” theory of dreaming – the idea that dreams represent unconscious wishes and desires. 

400 This is the deepest stage of sleep, characterized by delta waves, that becomes shorter or nonexistent as the night continues. 

500 Our body’s daily “biological clock” that functions on a 24- hour cycle and is cued by natural light and darkness. 

100 The psychological perspective that examines how natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one’s own genes. 

200 These are the chemicals that neurons use to communicate across the synaptic gap. 

300 The psychological perspective that proposes that behavior comes from unconscious drives and conflicts. 

400 No longer noticing the cold temperature of a pool 30 minutes after jumping in is an example of this. 

500 The term for the way in which the brain processes multiple things at the same time. 