| Foreign Words and Phrases | ||
| #1 | Latin for “blank slate”, Locke proposed that the human mind is initially this | What is tabula rasa? |
| #2 | German for “whole”, the perspective of psychology espoused by Wertheimer and Kohler | What is Gestalt? |
| #3 | G. Stanley Hall used this German term for “storm and stress” for his theory of adolescence | What is sturm und drang? |
| #4 | French for “let do”, this is a permissive parenting style | What is laissez faire? |
| #5 | French for “fool the eye”, this painting technique uses pictorial depth cues | What is trompe l'oeil? |
| Alphabet Soup | ||
| #1 | The letter used to denote the number of participants in an experiment | What is 'n'? |
| #2 | The letter used to denote the “constant” in Weber’s Law | What is 'k'? |
| #3 | Spearman’s symbol for general intelligence | What is 'g'? |
| #4 | This standardized score tells you how many standard deviations the score is from the mean | What is 'z'? |
| #5 | The last initial of “Anna”, whose treatment has been attributed to the beginning of psychoanalysis | What is 'O'? |
| Before and After | ||
| #1 | A sequential order of feared events in systematic desensitization AND Maslow’s pyramidal concept | What is fear hierarchy of needs? |
| #2 | Freud’s moral branch of personality AND a type of thinking in Piaget’s preoperational stage | What is super-ego-centricism? |
| #3 | An incorrect response in signal detection theory AND the body’s first response to stress, according to Selye | What is the false alarm stage? |
| #4 | The compliance technique in which a large unreasonable request precedes a smaller request, AND what occurs when a test seems to measure what is meant to measure | What is door in the face validity? |
| #5 | Where physical pleasure comes from according to Freud ANDwhere social learning occurs according to Vygotsky | What is erogenous zone of proximal development? |
| Colors | ||
| #1 | Skinner thought of the mind as this | What is the black box? |
| #2 | Aaron Beck graduated from this Rhode Island university in 1942 | What is Brown University? |
| #3 | In the “Three Faces of Eve”, the personality associated with the timid Eve | Who is Eve White? |
| #4 | With Swets, he co-authored the 1966 book Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics | Who is David Green? |
| #5 | The author of the best-selling 2009 book “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” | Who is Daniel Pink? |
| Geometry | ||
| #1 | Sternberg’s theory of love uses this shape as its model | What is a triangle? |
| #2 | The title of Herrnstein and Murray’s 1994 controversial book on the nature/nurture debate in intelligence | What is 'The Bell Curve'? |
| #3 | A type of repeated measures research design that ensures that each treatment is presented an equal number of times in each position | What is a Latin Square? |
| #4 | The small, membrane covered hole in the cochlea that receives vibrations from the stapes | What is the oval window? |
| #5 | Discovered in 1832 by a Swiss chrystallographer, this illusion is probably the most famous multi-stable stimulus | What is the Necker Cube? |
| Final Question | |
| In order to enjoy the smell of potpourri, these receptors would have to be stimulated | What are olfactory receptor neurons? |