AP Psych Name Game

You can’t help but learn language

• Broca

• Chompsky

• Binet

• Ainsworth

• Bandura

Answer explanation

Chomsky's theory centers around the idea that language is innate, meaning that we have a pre-existing mechanism in our brains that allows for language processing and that this mechanism is triggered by our environment. He called this concept universal grammar.

Words limit and affect thought…..just ask the Klingons!

• Whorf

• Spearman

• Freud

• Adler

Answer explanation

Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought.

We all should know about archetypes…. They are in your collective unconscious!

• Ebbinghaus

• Schachter

• Watson

• Jung

Answer explanation

Carl Jung identified four main archetypes—the persona, the shadow, the anima or animus and the self. These are a result of collective, shared ancestral memories that may persist in art, literature and religion but aren't obvious to the eye.

The “Father of Psychology”

• Freud

• Wundt

• Harlow

• Pavlov

Answer explanation

Most people think the father of psychology is Freud, but he was the founding father of PSYCHOANALYSIS, a specific branch of psychology, not the science itself.

Not only a guarded social psychologist…he plays one on TV!

• Zimbardo

• Kohlberg

• Hornei

• Gardner

Answer explanation

Philip Zimbardo is perhaps best known for the Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted in the basement of the Stanford psych department. In the study was male college students who were randomly assigned to act either as "guards" or "prisoners" in a "prison".

“I believe in multiple intelligences!”

• Jung

• Erikson

• Gardner

• Milgram

Answer explanation

Gardner introduced eight different types of intelligences consisting of: Linguistic, Logical/Mathematical, Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalist.

Many found his experiments on obedience to authority SHOCKING!

• Milgram

• Kohlberg

• Bouchard

• Pavlov

Answer explanation

One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram. He was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. He did the learner-teacher shock experiment.

IQ test…. Ripped off Binet.

• Thorndike

• Asch

• Adler

• Weschler

Answer explanation

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IQ tests are the primary clinical instruments used to measure adult and adolescent intelligence

Intelligence comes in threes…. Lover of triangles.

• Sternberg

• Allport

• Wundt

• Baumrind

Answer explanation

The theory proposed by Sternberg, say that there are 3 types of intelligence: practical (the ability to get along in different contexts), creative (the ability to come up with new ideas), and analytical (the ability to evaluate information and solve problems).

Hmmm….. mental age/chronological age x 100 doesn’t really work for adults. Let’s create an adult intelligence test!

• Ainsworth

• Terman

• Binet

• Gage

Answer explanation

He modified the Stanford Binet adult intelligence test to make it more accurate in measuring level of intelligence.