QR Challenge: Biological Psychology Treasure Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. The two hemispheres of the brain are connected by what?	Corpus Callosum
2. What are our emotional responses mostly regulated by?	Limbic System
3. What do we call the different functions of the two brain hemispheres	Localization
4. Where is the somatosensory cortex located?	Parietal lobe
5. What part of the neuron carries the electrical impulse away from the cell body	Axon
6. What is the third form of neuron together with motor and sensory neurons?	Relay
7. Where are neurotransmitters released from?	Vesicles
8. What is generally known to be the effect of serotonin in the CNS?	Inhibitory
9. What is the term for a drug's mimic effect of neurotransmitters?	Agonist
10. What do most drugs increase the release of?	Dopamine
11. Heroin withdrawal, craving and tolerance can be explained by what development?	Downregulation
12. The amygdala is part of which brain system?	Limbic
13. Which part of the brain is responsible for logical thinking and self control?	Frontal lobe
14. What is a peacock's tail a good example of?	Sexual selection
15. What part of the psychodynamic personality is influenced by the morality principle?	Superego
16. What is the earliest form of psychodynamic personality?	Id
17. A excess of this can explain aggression according to Freud?	Thanatos
18. Maladaptive responses to a lack of cathartic activity can lead to using what?	Defense Mechanisms
19. What is the name of the master gland?	Pituitary
20. Which hormone influences aggression?	Testosterone
21. What was the design of Raine et al (1997) study?	Matched pairs
22. Which area of the brain was discovered to be involved with aggression by Raine et al?	Cerebellum
23. What is a useful tool for investigating the interaction of nature and nurture?	concordance

 

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