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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Who is the founding father of modern psychology? | Wilhelm Wundt | 2. What type of study typically takes place over a long period of time that maybe decades? | Longitudinal | 3. Which famous psychologist experimented with obedience to authority figures? | Stanley Milgram | 4. Which type of memory stores the knowledge that it is the month of June? | Semantic Memory | 5. What is the term for the situation when beliefs and behaviors conflict? | Cognitive Dissonance | 6. In terms of sleep, what does REM stand for? | Rapid Eye Movement | 7. According to Miller, how many items can short term memory store? | 5 to 9 items | 8. The famous psychologist is most associated with psychoanalysis? | Sigmund Freud | 9. This Need is the basis of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? | Physiological | 10. In Freud's structural model of the psyche, which part is associated with basic primal urges? | ID | 11. In classical conditioning, the learned response to the previously neutral stimulus is known as the __. | Conditioned Response | 12. Which mental disorder includes periods of depression and mania? | Bipolar Disorder | 13. What was the name of the person whose personality changed when an iron rod was driven through his head? | Phineas Gage | 14. Which type of intelligence is argued to increase over the entire life span? | Crystallized Intelligence | 15. What is the term for the inability to retain new memories? | Anterograde Amnesia | 16. The variable that is manipulated in an experiment. | Independent Variable | 17. Which are of the brain is responsible for controlling hunger, thirst, emotions, temperature, and circadian rhythms? | Hypothalamus | 18. Who was the first female behavioral therapist? | Mary Cover Jones | 19. David Wechsler and Alfred Binet are known for their work in testing what? | Intelligence | 20. What did Asch’s research on conformity involve? | Matching Lines | 21. The term referring to the complexity of sound waves. | Timbre | 22. What is the term for a mental shortcut by which a new situation is judged by how well it matches a stereotypical model? | Representative Heuristic | 23. A decrease in which neurotransmitter is linked to Alzheimer’s? | Acetylcholine / ACh | 24. Who was the founder of functionalism? | William James | 25. Who developed the idea of secured attachments? | Mary Ainsworth |
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