AP Psychology JeopardyRound 2

Development & Personality

Motivation, Emotion, &

Stress

Abnormal & Therapy

Social Psychology

Famous Psychologists

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100According to Sigmund Freud, during

the phallic stage of personality development males struggle with this

desire for sexual intimacy toward one’s mother paired with a desire to

kill one’s father.

200The “Big Five” would be one example of this personality theory that views

personality as a characteristic pattern of behaviors or dispositions – such

as introverted, agreeable, conscientious, etc.

300According to Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages

of Psychosocial Development, individuals around their 40s-60s

enter this stage wherein they face the conflict of devoting themselves to

their children and their work or becoming self-centered and inactive.

400According to Jean Piaget’s model of cognitive development, children are in this stage from about age 2-6 and display “egocentrism” and a lack of

“conservation.”

500This is the name commonly given to Mary Ainsworth’s famous study of attachment wherein infants went

through a series of various interactions with their mother and a

stranger in an unfamiliar room.

100Research by Paul Ekman

suggests that this is the most universal and unambiguous

nonverbal cue to our emotions.

200This theory of motivation suggests

that physiological needs lead to feelings of arousal that motivate the

individual to satisfy the need and maintain homeostasis.

300This theory of emotion states that emotions result from a

combination of physiological arousal and a cognitive labeling of that arousal.

400Research with laboratory rats demonstrated that electrical

stimulation of this part of the brain leads to increased feelings of hunger and can make a rat eat to the point of

extreme obesity.

500These are the three stages of

Hans Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome.

100These false beliefs are a common characteristic of schizophrenia and may include believing that someone

is trying to control them, that someone is out to get them, or that

they are of great significance or importance.

200This fear of public or open spaces is often diagnosed in combination with

panic disorder.

300This form of therapy pairs a mental

hierarchy of anxiety-provoking situations with progressive relaxation techniques to help patients overcome phobias and other anxiety disorders.

400Although it was once widely used for a variety of disorders, today electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is primarily only used for extreme

cases of this disorder.

500This mood disorder is a mild, but persistent form of depression that

lasts for at least two years.

100He conducted the famous “Stanford

Prison Experiment” that demonstrated how the power of a social situation can

have a strong influence over the behavior of an individual… and he creeped some of you out with

his hosting of the Discovering Psychology series.

200This is the tendency to overestimate internal or dispositional causes and underestimate external or situational

causes for the behavior of others.

300If a group of individuals all enter a conversation

with a moderate dislike for President Obama and an hour later leave the conversation all

convinced that he is a Communist Nazi that is the leader of a secret plot to destroy freedom and create a New World Order – it is probably safe to assume that this social phenomenon

has occurred.

400A famous experiment with Chinese symbols showed that people rated

symbols they had been shown briefly and repeatedly as more favorable than those not previously seen,

demonstrating this phenomenon.

500If Suzy (a member of the Chess Club), Tom (a member of the 80s Sitcom Appreciation Club), and Mariah (a member of the Bungee Jumping Club) are each convinced that their club is the

most fun and has the most interesting members in the school - and that all other clubs are

boring and made up of a bunch of losers - then they each are likely demonstrating this social

phenomenon related to prejudice.

100This Russian physiologist’s

experiments with the salivation of dogs unintentionally led to understanding the role of

classical conditioning in learning.

200He is most remembered for his

research contributing to the development of social learning

theory, especially his famous “Bobo doll study.”

300Originally a follower of Freud, he

eventually became one of the biggest names in the humanistic school of psychology and developed Client

Centered Therapy.

400Viewing traditional measures of intelligence as incomplete, his Triarchic Theory of intelligence

described three forms of intelligence – analytic, creative, and practical.

500He is most known for his

research with rats demonstrating the way in with taste aversions

can be conditioned.