This language is spoken by the most people on the planet.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
100
According to this movement in psychology, people find meaning in what they see by imposing laws of perceptual organization, such as similarity, proximity, and closure.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
100
Repeating a telephone number over and over to help remember until you dial it is an example of this.
What is maintenance rehearsal
100
This film character suffers from extreme retrograde amnesia similar to a rare condition called psychogenic fugue.
What is Jason Bourne
100
Wellington was killed with this garden tool.
What is garden fork?
200
By what age must a person be exposed to and learn their first language, after which they may not be able to fully master any language.
What is age 7 or 8?
200
Talking on your hands-free device while driving is an example of this behavior, one that people are not very good at.
What is multitasking or divided attention?
200
You are engaged in a conversation with your friends when you overhear someone at a nearby table say your name. This is an example of what effect?
What is the cocktail party effect?
200
In the movie Memento, Leonard Shelby uses two methods to augment his long-term memory.
What are Polaroids and tattoos
200
This teacher encouraged Christopher to write a book.
Who is Siobhan?
300
This is the process of perceiving individual words in the continuous flow of speech.
What is speech segmentation?
300
By practicing to do something repeatedly until performing it requires very little of your attention, the task becomes what?
What is an automatic task?
300
This effect explains why you are more likely to remember a word such as ‘cheerful’ or ‘angry’ if you are asked, “does this describe you?”
What is the self-reference effect?
300
In this movie, a janitor at MIT University easily solves a math problem that was left on a chalkboard to stump advanced graduate students.
What is Will Hunting?
300
This event signifies a SUPER GOOD DAY.
What is seeing 5 red cars in a row?
400
The English language has this many phonemes.
What is 40?
400
The invisible gorilla experiment (Simons and Chabris, 1999) demonstrates this aspect of human attention.
What is inattentional blindness (or selective attention)
400
This effect can make it harder to learn French after recently learning Spanish, or harder to learn Windows after learning Mac OSX.
What is interference?
400
This character in the 1988 movie Rain Man appears to have exceptional eidetic or photographic memory.
Who is Raymond Babbit?
400
These are three types of verbal expressions that Christopher finds confusing.
What are lies, metaphors and jokes?
500
Deaf children from this country spontaneously developed their own sign language in the 70s and 80s.
What is Nicaragua?
500
Which type of processing—top down or bottom up—explains why we experience optical illusions?
What is top down
500
In the serial position curve, these two effects explain why people are more likely to remember the words at the beginning and at the end of a series of random words.
What is are the primacy and recency effects
500
The plot of this movie may have been inspired by the research of Karim Nader, who was able to erase some memories in rats.
What is The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
500
Christopher plays this math game in his head to help him calm down in the London station