Psych Club
The president and vice president of Psychology Club.
Who is Jada and Jayden
The lab animal used in the video's fear inheritance study.
What are mice?
The almond-shaped brain structure responsible for processing fear and threat detection.
What is the amygdala?
What was Mrs. Niemiec dressed as yesterday?
A judge
The Advisor of Psych Club
Who is Mrs. Niemiec
In the experiment, male mice were conditioned to fear acetophenone, a chemical scent that smells like almonds or this spring-blooming flower.
What are cherry blossoms?
The automatic nervous system response that prepares the body to either battle or flee a threat.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
How many people are on the Psychology Club board?
6 people
The day Psychology Club meets
Last Friday of the month or the 4th Friday of the month
The baby mice startled at the smell of acetophenone even though they had never received this painful stimulus used on their fathers.
What is an electric shock?
The part of the Nervous System related to the physical response of fear
Sympathetic Nervous System
What is the Psychology Club Instagram?
psychologywhsclub
The school year when Psychology club was made
Epigenetics changes how your body reads genes without altering this 3-letter molecule that holds your genetic code.
What is DNA (or DNA sequence)?
What phobia uses the Latin word claustrum (closed place) for its name?
What is Claustrophobia?
Number of members in the Google classroom (in range of 5)
56
The amount of club meetings we had so far (including this one)
11 meetings
To prove the pups didn't learn the fear behaviorally from their parents, researchers used this laboratory procedure to fertilize eggs outside the body and breed the offspring artificially.
What is In Vitro Fertilization (or IVF)?
Named after the Greek open marketplace (agora), this phobia involves the fear of open, crowded, or inescapable public spaces.
Agoraphobia, a type of anxiety disorder
What is psychology?
Scientific study of human mind and behavior