Put on Ur Thinking Cap
My Spidey Senses
are Tingling
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Key People
Leave-in Conditioner
I Forgot!
100
The area of the brain responsible for speech comprehension
What is Wernicke's area?
Lose a turn.
100
The decreased sensitivity to sensory info as a result of constant stimulation. You are unable to pay attention to it again.
What sensory adaptation?
100
Dubbed the "Father of Psychology" after opening the first psychology research lab
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Pick an individual opponent to wear the drunk goggles. They must sink a shot in the wastebasket from 10 ft away. For every miss, their team loses 100 points.
100
Pioneered research on operant conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Pick 2 teammates to wear drunk goggles for the rest of the game.
100
When the successful retrieval of a memory depends on the environment where the memory was encoded
What is context-dependent memory?
Pick a teammate. They must ask the first person to walk by in the hall on a date. If they refuse, all other teams gain 100 points.
200
The lobe that houses the primary visual cortex
What is the occipital lobe?
Remove 200 from an opponent.
200
Each eye sees the same image differently, allowing us to see distance/depth.
What is retinal disparity? Or binocular disparity?
Pick an opponent team to dance for 20 seconds. If they refuse their team loses 200 points.
200
Studied observational learning in his Bobo doll experiment
Who is Albert Bandura?
200
Giving your puppy a treat to lay down, then to roll on his back, then to roll to back to his stomach, and then only when he fully rolls over
What is shaping?
200
You are using this type of memory when you answer "who is the first president of the United States?"
What is semantic memory?
Add 200 points to an opponent.
300
The part of the neuron labeled H
What are the terminal buttons?
(axon terminals)
300
This part of the eye allows us to see in dim light.
What are rods?
300
Developed the stages of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
Remove 300 points from an opponent.
300
Type of conditioning: my mouth waters when I see the Taco Bell sign
What is classical conditioning?
300
The assumed capacity of short-term memory
What is 7+-2 ?
Pick 2 opponents to wear drunk goggles for the rest of the game.
400
The branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
400
The term that explains why many people don't see the gorilla when counting passes
What is inattentional blindness?
400
Psychologist known for their research on the misinformation effect
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
Give 400 of your points to an opponent.
400
The schedule of reinforcement that is the most resistant to extinction
What is a variable-ratio schedule?
Remove 400 from an opponent.
400
Occurs when old information interferes with the retention of new information
What is proactive interference?
500
Brain structure that helps you keep your balance on the tightrope
What is the cerebellum?
500
The theory of color vision that explains why we see a red afterimage after staring at a green screen
What is opponent-process theory?
500
Developed behaviorism; argued psychology should only study observable behavior; conducted the "Little Albert" experiment
Who is John B. Watson?
Pick an individual opponent. If they can't list the first 5 president, your team gains 500 points.
500
Removing something unpleasant to encourage behavior (EX: replacing the batteries in the smoke detector to eliminate the obnoxiously loud beeping)
What is negative reinforcement?
Pick a teammate. They must sing "Happy Birthday" to Mrs. McCarron. If they refuse, lose 500 points.
500
Remembering to take the trash out tomorrow night is an example of this type of memory
What is prospective memory?
600
The "master gland" of the endocrine system
What is the pituitary gland?
600
This type of processing allows us to make sense of the following:
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
What is top-down processing?
Remove 600 from an opponent.
600
The first female president of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
600
Explains why after being conditioned to fear a white rat, Little Albert was also fearful of other white, furry objects
What is stimulus generalization?
600
Jason Bourne's condition in The Bourne Identity
(has no memory of who he is, where he lives, what he does, etc. but can form new memories)
What is retrograde amnesia?
Pick one of your teammates to sing the national anthem. If they do so, add 600 points. If they don't, every other team gains 600 points.
700
Neurotransmitter responsible for controlling skeletal muscles; low levels of it cause Alzheimer's disease.
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
Remove 4 players from one team for the next turn.
700
The three tiniest bones in the human body (collectively known as the ossicles) that transmit vibrations of the eardrum
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Pick a team to lose the next turn.
700
Discovered the concept of the zone of proximal development
Who is Lev Vgotsky?
Steal 700 points from an opponent.
700
The psychologist who discovered taste aversion.
Who is John Garcia?
Remove 1400 points from an opponent.
700
A type of sensory memory specific to vision
What is iconic memory?
Gain an additional 1400 points.