AP Psychology Scavenger Hunt
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Created by Alan Feldman, Glen Rock High School Scavenger Hunt One answer key per class. Completely destroy your papers so that no other class gets them. 1) Give Erik Erikson's middle name. 2) In what year did Sigmund Freud move to London permanently? 3) Name the first university B.F. Skinner taught at. 4) Give John Watson's middle name. 5) Give the exact title of the book published in 1928 about childcare that was written by John Watson. 6) Give the full address of the American Psychological Association. 7) List the following psychologists in order of their birth: Piaget Skinner, Rogers, Maslow, and Bandura. 8) What was the first name of Freud's wife? 9) List six different stage theorists in any order. 10) What psychologist made the Bobo doll famous? 11) Name the first woman president of the American Psychological Association. 12) What is coulrophobia a fear of? 13) What year was the first AP Psychology test given? 14) Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association? 15) Name three different topics that Robert Sternberg has written books about. 16) What college did Philip Zimbardo teach at for most of his career? 17) Name the first Black woman to get a PhD in psychology. 18) What was Freud's middle name? 19) In what year did Freud visit Clark University in the United States? 20) What's the name of the Psychology building at Harvard? 21) What year was William James born? 22) What was the name of the graduate linguistic student who studied Genie and wrote her PhD thesis about her? 23) What famous psychologist did research on enuresis and classical conditioning? 24) What was Piaget's middle name? 25) What was the name of the female graduate student John Watson had an affair with whom he later married which caused him to resign from Johns Hopkins? 26) Who won the Nobel Prize who was involved with lobotomies? 27). In what year did Noam Chomsky write his famous review of BF Skinner's book Verbal Behavior? 28) What building did the Stanford Prison experiment occur in? Give the specific name. 29) What is the name of the biography of Milgram? 30) Give the titles of the three volumes of BF Skinner's autobiography. 31) What was Harry Harlow's last name before he changed it to Harlow? 32) Give the exact title of the children's book written by Jean Piaget and Delessert 33) Give the first names of BF skinner's two daughters. 34) Briefly yet accurately describe the Zeigarnik effect. 35) Briefly yet accurately describe the Von Restoff effect. 36) Who is the current APA (American Psychological Association) president? 37) In what year was Dorothy Cantor (of NJ) APA President. 38) Where will the 2018 APA convention be held? Created by Alan Feldman, Glen Rock High School 39) Give the full birth date of BF Skinner. 40) What college does David Myers teach at? 41) A very large psychology conference was held in 1929 in the US. What was the location of this conference? 42) In 1975 there was a debate between Piaget and another famous scholar. This debate was held in Italy, name the person Piaget debated. (A book was written about this debate in 1980) 43) What was Alfred Binet's initial profession? (He was not a psychologist) 44) What famous psychologist (1932) used the story The War of the Ghosts to study memory? 45) What was Kenneth Clark's middle name? (Be careful-there was a famous historian named Kenneth Clark) 46) In what year did Beverly Prosser receive her PhD? 47) What is the name of Jung's psychology? 48) In 1896 this psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania opened what is considered the first psychological clinic in the world. 49) Who left the University of Freiberg in 1892 to take over the psychology laboratory at Harvard University? 50) Who wrote the first book on the topic of school psychology on 1930? 51) What hospital was Jean Martin Charcot working at in Paris when Freud went to study with him? 52) Who was Freud's personal physician in 1939? 53) Who did Kenneth Clark get his PhD from in 1940? (Name his mentor-not the school) 54) What was the name of the real Rain Man? 55) What is the first name of the brother of Genie (the feral child)? 56) What were the first names of Genie's parents? 57) What book written by a famous intelligence researcher is an account of the history of the cognitive psychology movement? (Published in 1984/1985) 58) What high school in NJ did Robert Sternberg graduate from? 59) Sternberg made up a test with the acronym STOMA. What does each letter in the acronym stand for? 60) Where is the AP psychology test being graded in 2018? 61) What was the name of the movie show once in 1976 on CBS that was a recreation of the Milgram experiment? 62) What well known actor played the part of Milgram in this movie? 63) What is he name of the controversial 2003 movie made in Germany (in German with English sub titles) about the Zimbardo prison study? 64) Within 30 pages how long was Kohlberg's PhD thesis? 65) Give the full name of the man convicted of killing Kitty Genovese. 66) What two psychologists started to study the bystander effect after the Genovese murder? (Hint-initials are B.L. and J. D.) 67) What important book did Carol Gilligan write in 1982? 68) Who coined the term schizophrenia? 69) Who developed the modern concept of homeostasis? 70) What is the first name of Erik Erikson's son who is a professor at Yale? 71) What psychologist is the founder of attribution theory? 72) What psychologist is best known for his theory of personal constructs? 73) In what year did Konrad Lorenz win the Nobel Prize? 74) Give the last name of the husband and wife team who singly and jointly write scholarly books about philosophy and the brain? They both have 2 doctorates-one in neuroscience and one in philosophy. Created by Alan Feldman, Glen Rock High School 75) What Nobel Prize winner once attempted to develop a pill that would cause an individual to forge the last 24 hours? 76) Give the first sentence of Watson's famous address on behaviorism at Columbia in 1913. 77) Which psychologist who received his doctorate from BF Skinner later studied language in chimpanzees and named his chimp Nim Chimpsky? 78) Who wrote to Freud about her dream in 1927? (Ludy Benjamin published Article about this in the journal American Psychologist) 79) In what year was Lewis Terman President of APA? 80) What social scientist (1864-1924) developed the term, "the looking glass self"? 81) The Blacky Test (projective) uses a series of cartoons about what type of animal? 82) Name the husband and wife (developmental psychologists) couple honored in 1980 by The American Psychological Association with their Gold Medal Award? 83) Name the city and country of Piaget's birth. 84) Who founded the Harvard Psychological clinic in 1927? 85) What social psychologist made up the term familiar stranger? 86) What psychoanalyst (First name Rueben) was an international chess mater who played Bobby Fischer when Bobby was a teenager? 87) What psychologist is credited wit the phrase related to memory, "The magic number 7?" 88) What book about intelligence (written by R.H. and C.M.) published in 1994 created great controversy? 89) In what year did BF Skinner write his first book about psychology? 90) Describe the role of Dr. Rik Seefeldt at the AP Psychology reading. 91) What high school did Milgram and Zimbardo both graduated from? In what year? 92) Which psychologist (from Connecticut) devised the internal/external locus of control scale? 93) The first name and middle name of this psychologist who studies learning was Orval Hobart . Give his last name. 94) The ethologist Niko Tinbergen is best known for studying which fish? 95) The author of your textbook Wayne Weiten teaches at which college currently? 96) What famous woman psychoanalyst was born in 1895? 97) On what date was the film The Experimenter first screened publicly? 98) Who is the director of The Experimenter 99) What book did Carol Tavris co-author on the topic of cognitive dissonance? 100) Name the famous psychologist that recently turned 100 years old. There was a ceremony in his honor at Fordham University in 2015. His initials are J.B. 101) Give the exact date – day and year that Phineas Gage had his accident. 102) What is the name of the female English professor at Hope College that has prosopagnosia? 103) Name the woman psychologist who spent many years of her life studying the amnesiac patient HM? 104) What scientist won the Nobel Prize in the early 1960’s for discovering some of the basic mechanisms of how hearing works? 105) Name the four books Robert Sternberg wrote about love. (Do not include the book he edited about love). 106) What famous social psychologist currently at Harvard University studies implicit prejudice? She created the IA Test? 107) Name the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University. 108) The professor named in number 107 is an expert in what area? 109) List the 9 intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner. 110) Name the 9th stage of psychosocial development named by Erikson in the early 1990’s. 111) The term operant was introduced by BF Skinner. It is a word that combines which two words? 112) Describe the importance of the name Dibs in psychology? Created by Alan Feldman, Glen Rock High School 113) Name the concept that describe the phenomenon of when a subject does even more of the behavior you want to eliminate at the point you stop reinforcing him.