Sensation and Perception
These are referred to as the “chemical senses” because their receptors are sensitive to chemical molecules.
Smell and taste
Someone who is outgoing and sociable would be described as this according to the MBTI.
An extrovert
Which neurotransmitter is responsible for feelings of happiness and mood stability?
Serotonin
A specific time in development when certain skills are more easily learned
A critical period or window of opportunity
How many days of Hanukkah are there?
Eight
Which two colors can't you distinguish between with the most common form of color blindness?
Red and green
A trait that is so obvious that it almost defines you
A cardinal trait
The part of the brain responsible for sight.
The occipital lobe
The internally programmed growth of a person.
Maturation
Which dinosaur supposedly had the smallest brain?
A stegosaurus
The process of combining the images received from the two eyes into a single, fused image.
Binocular fusion
The defense mechanism where a person attributes their own undesirable feelings, thoughts, or impulses onto someone else.
Projection
These are chemical-electrical signals that trigger certain behavioral reactions
Neurotransmitters
The intellectual ability of a child to picture something in their mind.
Representational thought
Bruce Murrie and Forrest Mars were the creators of which candy?
MnMs
This refers to the experience that comes from organizing bits of information into a whole.
Gestalt
A type of test where answers are forced-choice, rather than free response.
Objective test
The collective structures in our brain that control or regulate our emotions and motivations
The limbic system
A conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world around them
A schema
On which day is the Winter Solstice?
December 21/22
The apparent movement of stationary objects relative to one another that occurs when you change position
Motion parallax
This theory assigned certain traits to you depending on whether you were a sibling or an only child.
Adler's Birth Order Theory
Includes the nerves that spread out from the spinal cord to other parts of the body
The peripheral nervous system
The principle that a given quantity doesn’t change when its appearance does
Conservation
In which country did the tradition of decorating a Christmas tree originate?
Germany