AP Psychology
Escape Room Bundle!
Make your AP Psych or regular psych classroom more fun and engaging with this thrilling and competitive activity. There is one Escape Room for each of the 9 College Board Units!
This exciting game has students scramble to solve and decode clues in pairs using their knowledge of AP Psychology to exit the Escape Room! The game is ready-to-go. Once you understand the game, you simply print the materials and go!
NOTE: These activities are meant to be used AFTER students have learned the material.
Game includes all required materials:
- A set of instructions and keys for the teacher
- A student Escape Room packet with instructions and materials
- Puzzles, scenarios, and terminology the students know and solve
- Depending on the class, the game can take anywhere from 25-45 minutes to complete–sometimes longer!
Unit 1 – Scientific Foundations – Topics Covered
- Wilhelm Wundt
- William James
- BF Skinner
- Cognitive Revolution
- HIPPA
- control groups
- surveys
- bimodal distribution
- median (statistics)
Unit 2 – Biological Bases of Behavior – Topics Covered
- endocrine system
- hormones
- estrogen
- testosterone
- oxytocin
- adrenal glands
- nervous system
- central nervous system
- neurons
- axons
- dendrites
- soma
- synapse
- myelin sheaths
Unit 3 – Sensation and Perception – Topics Covered
- vision
- rods
- cones
- ganglion cells
- optic nerve
- audition
- cochlea
- olfaction
- taste buds
- gate control theory
Unit 4 – Learning – Topics Covered
- Alfred Bandura
- John Garcia
- neutral stimulus
- latent learning
- insight learning
- learned helplessness
- spontaneous recovery
- positive and negative reinforcement
- positive and negative punishment
Unit 5 – Cognition – Topics Covered
- fluid intelligence
- Charles Spearman
- general intelligence
- factor analysis
- Howard Gardener
- multiple intelligences theory
- Daniel Golman
- emotional intelligence theory
- Robert Sternberg
- triarchic intelligence theory
- Francis Galton
- Alfred Binet
- mental age
- Louis Leon Thurstone
- seven primary factors of intelligence
- Lewis Terman
- Stanford-Binet IQ Test
- David Wechsler
- WAIS
Unit 6 – Developmental Psychology – Topics Covered
- Piagetian cognitive development
- schemata
- assimilation
- Kohlberg’s moral development
- logical analysis
- Carol Gilligan’s ethics of care
- Erikson’s lifespan development
- emergent adulthood
- sex and gender differences
Unit 7 – Motivation, Emotion, and Personality – Topics Covered
- motivation
- drive
- dopamine
- stressors
- Hans Selye
- Yerkes-Dodson Law
- arousal theory
- Two-factor theory of emotion
- James-Lange theory of emotion
- Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Unit 8 – Clinical Psychology – Topics Covered
- The DSM
- mood disorders
- anxiety disorders
- eating disorders
- neurological disorders
- acute schizophrenia
- chronic schizophrenia
- group therapy
- family therapy
- biochemical therapy
- Freudian psychoanalysis
- behaviorist therapies
- humanistic therapies
- cognitive behavioral therapy
Unit 9 – Social Psychology – Topics Covered
- conformity
- replication crisis
- Muzafer Sherif conformity experiment
- Leon Festinger and cognitive dissonance
- Philip Zimbardo and the prison study
- Solomon Asch and the conformity study
- Stanley Milgram and the obedience study
- in-group bias
- just-world theory
