1. Jeopardy!
Begin

2. Localization of
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Phineas
Gage
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transmitters
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4. FINAL JEOPARDY

5. Final Jeopardy
C1-$100

6. Localization of Function - $100
Part of the brain responsible for vision
C1-$100
Occipital Lobe

7. Localization of Function - $200
Part of the brain responsible for hearing
C1-$200
Temporal Lobe

8. Localization of Function - $300
Association area in brain, important for being able to produce speech, located in frontal lobe of left hemisphere
C1-$300
Remind them of the case study of “Tan” (that’s one of the few sounds he could verbalize). The researcher was last named Broca. He studies this individual while he was alive and did an autopsy on him after he died. Found damage in a specific area in frontal lobe of left hemisphere, thus suggesting localization of function.
Broca’s Area

9. Localization of Function - $400
This empirical research study exemplifies localization of function by indicating that the hippocampus is an important area for spatial memory because that area was larger in individuals who needed extensive spatial knowledge of London for their jobs.
C1-$400
MRI scans of taxi cab drivers. Saw a correlation with number of years on the job – more years as cab driver equals even larger in that particular part of the hippocampus. But this is just correlational because experimenter did not manipulate the IV (quasi-experimental) – we don’t know if the taxi driving itself caused the growth in the hippocampus or if perhaps people with a larger hippocampus are just drawn to taxi cab driving.
Maguire et al Taxi Cab

10. Localization of Function - $500
This empirical research study indicates that brains of murderers have less activity in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and medial hippocampus compared to non murderers.
C1-$500
PET scans of individuals charged with murder and plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Suggests that violent behavior like this may have a physiological basis. They paired each individual with a non murderer counterpart (for example murderer schizophrenic with non murder schizophrenic and other similar variables as well to try to account for those differences).
Raine et al Brain Abnormalities

11. Phineas Gage - $100 Case Study
The example of Phineas Gage would be classified as this type of research.
C2-$100
Case Study

12. Phineas Gage - $200 Iron rod through head
The cause of Gage’s brain damage
C2-$200
Iron rod through head

13. Phineas Gage - $300 Frontal Lobe
The part of Gage’s brain that sustained severe damage
C2-$300
Frontal Lobe

14. Phineas Gage - $400 No Cause/Effect
This is a criticism or evaluation of this empirical study.
C2-$400
No Cause/Effect
Don’t know much about pre-accident Phineas
Only one individual – can’t generalize

15. Phineas Gage - $500 Rude language, lack of impulse control,
Two specific changes seen in Phineas Gage after the accident
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Rude language, lack of impulse control,
Different personality, hard time making future plans,
Couldn’t do his old job as supervisor

16. Neurotransmitters-$100 Synapse
Neurons sends messages through an electrical impulse running along the axon. When it reaches the terminal button, sacs with neurotransmitters inside are released and the NTs cross over this space before binding at a receptor site on the next neuron.
C3-$100
Synapse

17. Neurotransmitters - $200 Acetylcholine (ACH)
Anesthesia blocks this neurotransmitter causing numbness and paralysis, while spider venom increases this neurotransmitter causing muscle spasms
C3-$200
Acetylcholine (ACH)

18. Neurotransmitter - $300 Endorphins
This is naturally produced by the body in response to pain and can result in a “runner’s high.” Opiate drugs mimic this chemical and bind at its receptor sites.
C3-$300
Endorphins

19. Neurotransmitters - $400 Dopamine
This chemical affects emotion and is often associated with a pleasure response in the brain
C3-$400
Dopamine

20. Neurotransmitters - $500
This empirical research study found low levels of serotonin in people who said they were in love, similar to what we see in individuals with OCD and those who are intoxicated.
C3-$500
Mazaritti Love Study

21. Hormones -$100
Two hormones typically identified as the male hormone and the female hormone (although men and women have both of these hormones in their body, just at differing levels)
C4-$100
Testosterone, Estrogen
Essential to neural communication

22. Hormones - $200
The Auyeung et al Study found a link between testosterone and this condition. Boys showed more signs of traits indicating behavior typical of those with this disorder.
C3-200
Autism

23. Cortisol and Adrenaline
Hormones - $300
These two hormones are released when you are in a stressful situation. From an evolutionary perspective, this is beneficial for short term fight or flight. Long term it can cause several detrimental health effects.
C3-$300
Cortisol and Adrenaline

24. DAILY DOUBLE

25. Hormones - $400
This hormone increases a sense of attachment and is released in humans during sex and during child birth.
C3-$400
Oxytocin

26. Sapolsky Baboon Research
Hormones - $500
This research indicates that unhealthy primates have higher levels of stress hormones, suggesting a link between chronic stress and immune system health issues for humans.
C3-$500
Sapolsky Baboon Research

27. Brain Imaging - $100
Brain scans can help us to explore this concept, which states that the brain does not remain constant, but changes throughout our life due to changes in the environment, our own learning, injuries, etc.
C4-$100
Neuroplasticity

28. Brain Imaging - $200
This technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce 3D images of the brain.
C4-$200
MRI (magnetic
resonance imaging)

29. Brain Imaging - $300
Case study that used MRI images to look at patient’s brain. This patient suffered anterograde amnesia after a surgery removed part of his hippocampus to prevent future seizures.
C4-$300
H.M.

30. (positron emission tomography)
Brain Imaging - $400
These scans require that patients be injected with a radioactive glucose tracer that will then reveal where more brain activity is happening by seeing where that radioactive glucose is absorbed in the brain.
C4-$400
PET Scans
(positron emission tomography)

31. Berns Conformity Study
Brain Imaging - $500
This study looked at fMRI scans of subjects as they chose which manipulated 3D figure matched. When participants changed their answer to correspond to answers given by others, activity was seen in the occipital cortex.
C4-$500
Berns Conformity Study

32. Psychological Association)
Ethics - $100
The organization that creates the ethical guidelines that psych researchers must abide by in their empirical studies.
C4-$100
APA (American
Psychological Association)

33. Ethics - $200
The step in the research where participants are made aware of the true purpose of the study and are told that they can be informed of the study’s results when they are available.
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Debriefing

34. Ethics - $300
This should be avoided because it can be ethically questionable. It involves lying to the participants about the true aim of the study. It is only allowed according to guidelines if it can be justified as necessary.
C4-$300
Deception

35. Ethics - $400
Researchers must obtain this from participants prior to the study.
C4-$400
Informed Consent

36. Ethics - $500
In this ethically questionable empirical study, the researcher advised parents to raise their male infant (whose penis was damaged from a circumcision accident) as a girl in order to test his gender neutrality theory.
C4-$500
David Reimer