The Brain
As you feel scared, you might experience a rise in this subdivision of the Nervous System, causing a fight-or-flight response.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
What is absolute?
Your ability to remember your Halloween Costume from last year most likely lies in this specific type of memory.
What is Episodic Memory?
This approach to psychology explains why certain costumes and triggers like snakes and spiders are more scary to individuals than electricity or clowns are.
What is the Evolutionary Approach?
Many classic Halloween costumes rely on gothic literature inspiration, for example, Frankenstein's Monster from Mary Shelley, or Dracula, from this author.
Who is Stoker?
BOO! When your brain experiences fear, this part of the brain is most likely to be active.
What is the Amygdala?
When you are scared, this part of the eye will change size as a part of the fight-or-flight response.
What is the pupil?
Remembering your route that you always take every year trick-or-treating most likely relies on this type of processing.
What is Automatic Processing?
This approach to psychology is the most likely to explain why Halloween has developed over time through cultural diffusion and cultural mixing.
What is the Sociocultural Approach?
In order to move from just fear to a _________ (specific name for fear disorder), a trigger has to impact someone's daily life.
What is a Phobia?
As you eat your Halloween candy, this hormone will (hopefully) tell you that you are starting to feel full.
What is Leptin?
Your neighbor leaves out a coffin in their front yard for a month prior to Halloween. Then, on Halloween night, they switch the coffin for one that jumps at you as you approach to trick-or-treat. Your failure to notice the different coffin is best explained by this blindness.
What is change blindness?
Oh no! You can't remember what your Halloween costume was last year, because all you can think of is your current costume! You are likely experiencing this type of interference.
What is retroactive interference?
As you think of a Halloween Costume, the first image that comes to mind is an example of this psychological concept, or your representation of the best example of a category.
What is a prototype?
While trick or treating is now a Halloween staple, before the 1920's, this practice was more commonly associated with this holiday instead.
What is Thanksgiving?
As you stay out late on Halloween, it will likely disrupt this biological process, thus changing your sleep patterns temporarily as well.
What is your circadian rhythm?
On Halloween, you are dressed as a pirate, and are wearing an eyepatch for the whole night. Your eyepatch comes at the expense of you losing this method of determining depth and distance.
What is retinal disparity?
When you are handing out candy to trick-or-treaters, you can only remember the first costume that you saw on Halloween. You are likely experiencing this phenomenon, a subdivision of the Serial Position Effect.
What is primacy?
John wants to see if children take more or less candy when an adult is supervising the distribution vs. when the candy is left unattended. He sets up a camera watching as his wife hands out candy at his house, and another camera watching as his brother leaves the candy out front with a sign that says, "Take one!". He is likely using this research method.
What is a naturalistic observation?
This charity organization began urging children to contribute to their efforts with small orange boxes that would collect coins and change.
What is UNICEF?
Chocolate is so addicting because the sugars in the candy are agonists for this neurotransmitter, stimulating feelings of reward, and the fats in the candy are agonists for this neurotransmitter, stimulating feelings of well being and pleasure.
What are Dopamine and Endorphins?
Your sense of taste is broken into these 6 flavors. (Most wins)
What are sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami and oleogustus?
As you solidify and consolidate your memory of how psychology relates to Halloween, your brain is engaging in this 3-letter acronym, which is the neurological basis for memory.
What is LTP (Long-Term Potentiation)
As you sleep, you have a nightmare that you get separated from your friends while trick-or-treating, all of whom were with you earlier that night. Your dream is best explained by this dream theory.
What is the Information-Processing Model?
While pumpkins are the most common form of carving in the United States, this vegetable is more commonly carved in European Countries, where pumpkins are not native.
What are Turnips?