Psychology

1. Psychology Jeopardy ! Click on Chapter 1 to begin game. • Chapter 1: Psychology • Questions compiled by Sue Boland, LHU of PAProgram developed by Dan Hosey, Bucknell U.

2. Old time Psychology ModernPsychology Initial Degrees Psychology is Think like a scientist 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 To Round Two!

3. C1 - 100 100 Psychology is concerned with behavior and these processes. Back to board Correct Answer

4. C1 - 200 200 Pseudosciences like astrology, and numerology make predictions about human behavior. Their predictions, however, are usually also “pseudo”- meaning this. Back to board Correct Answer

5. C1 - 300 300 Evidence gathered by careful observation and measurement. Back to board Correct Answer

6. C1 - 400 400 Although psychology sometimes confirms this, it also sometimes contradicts it. Hence, psychology is not just a fancy name for it. Back to board Correct Answer

7. C1 -500 500 Two of the three factors that psychologists study that can affect an organism (e.g. person). Back to board Correct Answer

8. C2 - 100 100 The man usually credited with being the “father” of modern psychology. Back to board Correct Answer

9. C2 - 200 200 Structuralists used this technique to carefully analyze their own experiences in order to break behavior into its basic elements. Back to board Correct Answer

10. C2 - 300 300 The name of Freud’s theory based on the idea that people’s problems originated in forgotten events from early childhood. Back to board Correct Answer

11. C2 - 400 400 An adherent of this early psychological approach would ask how a human behavior developed as an adaptation to the environment. Back to board Correct Answer

12. C2 -500 500 An early attempt to describe a person’s personality by examining the bumps on his or her head. (A pseudoscience) Back to board Correct Answer

13. C3 -100 100 Current psychological perspective that focuses on the connection between the body and behavior, thoughts and feelings. Back to board Correct Answer

14. C3 -200 200 These psychologists focus on how we learn from experience, but they don’t talk about what we think or feel about it. Back to board Correct Answer

15. C3 -300 300 This isn’t brain surgery. These psychologists try to get inside your head by studying what you remember, how you solve problems, and how you use language. Back to board Correct Answer

16. C3 -400 400 The perspective of a psychologist who is interested in the following phenomenon: In Japan, when student fail and exam, they are more likely to say they didn’t study hard enough and exam. In the US, students are more likely to say the exam was too difficult. Back to board Correct Answer

17. C3 -500 500 Psychologists adopting this perspective see themselves as “archeologists” of the mind, but many other psychologists think this approach belongs in philosophy or literature departments. Back to board Correct Answer

18. C4 -100 100 I have a Ph.D. and diagnose, treat and study mental illness Back to board Correct Answer

19. C4 -200 200 My Ph.D. enables me to help people cope with everyday problems. Back to board Correct Answer

20. C4 -300 300 Because I have a M.D., I can prescribe drugs to treat mental illness. Back to board Correct Answer

21. C4 -400 400 I also help people, but I don’t need any special initials behind my name to call myself one of these. Back to board Correct Answer

22. C4 -500 500 The first three initials of my degree, MFCC reveal my specialty. Back to board Correct Answer

23. C5 -100 100 For example, a statement like this: “I predict that student who attend class earn higher grades.” Back to board Correct Answer

24. C5 -200 200 Principle that a true test of a theory or hypothesis might expose the theory or hypothesis as being wrong. Back to board Correct Answer

25. C5 -300 300 Specification of exactly how a variable will be measured or manipulated. Back to board Correct Answer

26. C5 -400 400 An proposed explanation of a phenomenon Back to board Correct Answer

27. C5 -500 500 When other researchers verify or repeat the findings of a scientist. Back to board Correct Answer

28. DAILY DOUBLE Question

29. Do you see what I see? Pass the test Can you relate? Experiment Answer this 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 To Final Jeopardy! To Round One

30. C6 -200 200 The broad category of research method that these fit: case studies, observational studies, tests, surveys. Back to Board Correct Answer

31. C6 -400 400 An in-depth examination of an individual. Back to Board Correct Answer

32. C6 -600 600 Watching students in a library and recording their behaviors (e.g., reading, talking, staring into space), is an example of this type of study. Back to Board Correct Answer

33. C6 -800 800 After inviting a college student into a small room, I drop my pen to see if the student will pick it up. I might be conducting one of these studies. Back to Board Correct Answer

34. C6 -1000 1000 Researchers have more control over the situation in this type of watchful study. Back to Board Correct Answer

35. C7 -200 200 Procedures used to measure and evaluate factors like personality traits, abilities, preferences, and values. Back to Board Correct Answer

36. C7 -400 400 A test that gives the same result at different times is this. Back to Board Correct Answer

37. C7 -600 600 If everyone has the same amount of time to take the test, takes the test in a similar setting, and is given the same instructions. The test has been this. Back to Board Correct Answer

38. C7 -800 800 Standards of test performance. Back to Board Correct Answer

39. C7 -1000 1000 If scores on a test of math ability rely heavily on reading ability, then the test lacks this. Back to Board Correct Answer

40. C8 -200 200 When one goes up, the other goes up, in this form of correlation. Back to Board Correct Answer

41. C8 -400 400 If there is a correlation of +.90 betweensmoking and yellowing of teeth, I could accurately estimate how yellow you teeth would be based on how much you smoke. This shows that one strength of correlation is this ability. Back to Board Correct Answer

42. C8 -600 600 For adults, the more they weigh, the less they exercise. This is an example of this type of correlation. Back to Board Correct Answer

43. C8 -800 800 Bald men commit fewer crimes than men with full heads of hair. I would NOT recommend that we shave all criminals heads as a crime reduction strategy however, because I know this is a major disadvantage of correlational research. Back to Board Correct Answer

44. C8 -1000 1000 The type of correlation illustrated in this graph. Weight in pounds Height in inches Back to Board Correct Answer

45. C9 -200 200 An experimenter manipulates this. Correct Answer Back to Board

46. C9 -400 400 To determine if doing homework using a computer affects children’s cognitive skills, one should not only study computer users, but also non-computer users. The name of this second group in an experiment. Back to Board Correct Answer

47. C9 -600 600 In an experiment on “brain freeze”, Dr. Breyer has one group of subjects quickly drink a frosty drink, while another group slowly sips the frosty drink. Every minute, Dr. Breyer has each participant rate their headache pain on a scale of 1 (no pain) to 10 (severe brain freeze). The rating of headache pain is this. Back to Board Correct Answer

48. C9 -800 800 To be sure that similar groups of participants are compared in an experiment, researchers are careful about how they put into experimental and control groups.They use this technique based on chance. Back to Board Correct Answer

49. C9 -1000 1000 Procedure to reduce bias that keeps both participants and experimenter in the dark. Back to Board Correct Answer

50. C10 -200 200 Seeking direct answers to direct questions is this descriptive research technique Back to Board Correct Answer