Brain Check
This part of the brain, responsible for processing fear and other strong emotions, is named for its almond shape.
Amygdala
You only read news sources that agree with what you already believe.
Confirmation Bias
In Finding Nemo, Dory keeps forgetting things moments after they happen.
Amnesia
Making someone doubt their own memory and sanity.
Gaslighting
What famous movie was filmed inside the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library?
Divergent
This part of the brain, responsible for forming new long-term memories, is enlarged in London taxi drivers.
Hippocampus
You keep watching a terrible movie because you already paid for the ticket.
Sunk Cost Fallacy
After a car accident, a driver has nightmares and flashbacks and jumps at loud noises for months.
PTSD
Overwhelming someone with affection and gifts early on to win them over.
Love Bombing
What is the oldest building on campus?
Cobb
This part of the brain, responsible for planning, decision-making, and impulse control, was damaged when an iron rod passed through Phineas Gage’s skull.
Prefrontal Cortex / Frontal Lobe
We assume attractive people are also smarter and kinder.
Halo Effect
Even though finals are over, you’re still in the Reg at 2 a.m., unable to do anything but worry about your grades, your internship, and everything else, and you’ve been that way for six months or more.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
The persistent feeling that you’re a fraud despite your successes.
Imposter Syndrome
This U.S. president once taught at the UChicago Law School.
Barack Obama
This part of the brain, responsible for producing fluent speech, is named for a French physician; damage leaves people able to understand language but unable to speak it smoothly.
Broca’s Area
A cognitive error where you blame your own behavior on external situational factors, but blame other people’s identical behavior on their personality.
Actor-Observer Bias
While studying in the Reg, you witness your friend constantly pulling their hair out. When asked to stop, they say they cannot help it.
Trichotillomania
Accusing others of feelings you have but won’t admit to.
Projection
In 1970, artist Wolf Vostell encased what specific model of luxury American vehicle in 16 tons of concrete, now located in the North parking garage?
Cadillac Sedan de Ville
This part of the brain, responsible for letting the left and right hemispheres communicate, was surgically cut in the “split-brain” patients studied by Sperry and Gazzaniga.
Corpus Callosum
A cognitive bias in which people with low ability or knowledge in a subject greatly overestimate their own competence.
Dunning-Kruger Effect
After bombing his final, John loses his eyesight. Confused, he goes to the hospital, only to hear that there is nothing physically wrong with him.
Conversion Disorder
A one-sided emotional bond with a celebrity or streamer who doesn’t know you exist.
Parasocial Relationship
In 1935, a UChicago halfback became the first winner of this major college football award.
The Heisman Trophy