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100
The main hormone that are triggered by scrolling through social media.
What is dopamine?
100
The answer to this riddle: like a cell reaching its action ____, the Humanistic model argues that people are driven to self-actualize and fulfill their ____ for good and growth.
What is potential?
100
A memory technique involves organizing information into familiar, manageable units to aid in memory retention.
What is chunking?
100
These are the 2 Gestalt principles that allow this Müller-Lyer illusion to work.
What are convergence and divergence?
100
The name and location of the first psychological laboratory in the US.
What is G. Staley Hall in JHU?
200
In 2018, this much-decorated Team USA Olympic swimmer went public on the benefits of therapy with an ad campaign for the app Talkspace.
Who is Michael Phelps?
200
The answer to this riddle: Like a person trying to get on a plane at their ____, a neurotransmitter also leaves the axon from the axon ____.
What is a terminal?
200
Vivid and detailed memory that is often associated with significant emotional events.
What is flashbulb memory?
200
A technique used to persuade you by first introducing you to a part of the product/result, an example of which would be free Costco samples and movie trailers.
What is the Foot-in-the-door technique?
200
The martial art Prof. Chaz Firestone can be seen practicing at the Rec Center.
What is Jiujitsu?
300
The effect when people work less hard when they're working on a group presentation.
What is social loafing?
300
This famous actress completed her PhD thesis in Neuroscience in 2007. Coincidentally, she also played a neuroscientist in a well-known TV show.
Who is Mayim Bialik?
300
The phenomenon this picture exhibits.
What is the Stroop Effect?
300
A type of projective personality measure that utilizes this.
What is the Rorschach ink blot test?
300
A professor in the JHU PBS department has done a G. Stanley Hall Lecture at JHU?
Who is Dr. Allison Papadakis?
400
In a 1972 experiment, Walter Mischel offered children one of this confectionery or two of these items if they could wait 15 minutes. Children who chose to wait were claimed to have better life skills going forward.
What is a marshmellow?
400
Human behavior is a result of healthy networks of specific brain structures communicating to produce behavior, cognition, or emotion. What is the term for these networks?
What are brain circuits?
400
The term for the inability to recognize familiar faces, often due to brain damage.
What is prosopagnosia?
400
DAILY DOUBLE:
A concept formalized by Piaget and the reason babies get surprised (allegedly, currently being refuted by modern research) when you play peek-a-boo with them (object permanence also exemplified in this VOE video method)
What is object-permanence?
400
The professor can you usually see in a bowtie, motorcycle jacket, and bright yellow shoes.
Who is Prof. Halberta?
500
This NBA Hall-of-Famer for the San Antonio Spurs did his undergraduate honors thesis in psychology under Dr. Mark Leary at Wake Forest University, entitled Blowhards, Snobs, and Narcissists: Interpersonal Reactions to Excessive Egotism
Tim Duncan
500
In addition to genetic inheritance and random mutations serving as biological sources of abnormality, this can also play a part in abnormal development, including schizophrenia.
What are viral infections?
500
Effect where individuals remember incomplete/interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
What is the Zeigarnik Effect?
500
A heuristic that explains we pay more for things or value an object more if we help build or assemble it named after a popular furniture department store.
What is the IKEA effect?
500
The year the first psychology research laboratory at Hopkins was founded.
What is the year 1883?