Myth Busters (T/F)
Spooky Scary Science
Emos
Zombie eats..?
Miscelaneous
100
Scientists proved that humans only use 10% of their brains everyday
What is False?
100
Trypophobia is fear of...
What is the fear of holes?
100
Colors are used in media and art to convey emotions and messages. State a color and explain what emotions are largely associated with it.
Ex: Color blue represents sadness, vulnerability
- Yellow represents joy, happiness, brightness.
- Red represents anger, love, frustration.
100
What is this game called?
What is Brain Test: All Tricky Puzzles.
100
The term to describe the one-sided psychological connection where an audience member or fan invests emotional energy, time, and care into a public figure, fictional character, or artificial intelligence who is completely unaware of their existence.
What is Parasocial?
200
You can play a foreign language tape or a biology textbook audio track while you sleep and absorb new factual data
What is false?
Targeted Memory Reactivation: the sleeping brain can recognize and reinforce previously learned material.
200
This work of fiction tells the terrifying story of kids facing a children-fearing entity/monster known for hiding in sewers. The term coined for fear of the entity is Coulrophobia.
What is the entity?
What are Clowns/Pennywise from IT?
200
Explain the difference between empathy and sympathy and how each can be used differently in a context.
What is..
Empathy: to feel and share feelings with another
Sympathy: to feel pity, concern and care for one's feelings
200
Brain is muscle/meat/intestines?
What is meat?
200
Describe the halo effect
What is assuming that if a person has one positive trait (like being attractive or well-spoken), they are also smart, kind, or competent across the board?
300
"Studies show that humans either use more of their left brain (logical) and right brain (creative)"
What is False?
The brain's hemispheres work together constantly for almost all thinking, language, and creative tasks
300
Decidophobia is fear of...
What is the fear of decisions?
300
Name all of the emotions present in Inside Out 2
What is Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui
+ 50 points for Nostalgia
300
This term was famously used and defined to describe the brain's cognitive ability to move between different tasks, which was proven as an illusion/myth.
What is multitasking?
300
This field of study/career uses business psychology to appeal and promote products or brands
What is marketing?
400
A person who is completely blind can still navigate an obstacle course and recognize facial expressions
What is true?
400
The emotion marked by apprehension, tension, and the anticipation of future danger, catastrophe, or misfortune
Name the emotion
What is Anxiety
400
This is the primary evolutionary purpose of basic negative emotions like disgust or fear.
What is protection/survival (keeping us safe from harm)?
400
This progressive, irreversible brain disorder is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for 60% to 70% of cases, and currently incurable.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
400
This highly controversial psychological study conducted by an Ivy League professor in 1971 that tested the split of 12 guars and 12 prisoners and showed how people react to roles in a simulated prison.
What is The Stanford Prison Experiment?
500
Venting anger immediately helps release it so you calm down
False
500
This 2017 Jordan Peele film Get Out that portrays a man trapped in the terrifying "Sunken Place," is a perfect example of this horror subgenre that uses mental dread, paranoia, and mind control instead of monsters.
State the horror subgenre.
What is Psychological Horror/Thriller?
500
This is the difference between a primary emotion and a secondary emotion
What is primary emotion is the initial, raw feeling, while a secondary emotion is a reactive cover-up emotion?
500
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This large, wrinkled outer layer of the brain is divided into four lobes and handles high-level functions like thought, language, and consciousness.
What is the cerebral cortex?
500
Spot all the differences
What is...
- curtains, clock, picture, cabinet handle, bowl/nesting dolls, red pin, :p, lollipop/spoon, banana, cookie/yellow paper, salad, plate/smile.