Intro to Psych and Research Methods
Biopsych and Sensing Perception
Memory: How It Functions and Parts of the Brain
Memory: Problems and Ways to Enhance
This is Halloween!
100
Being able to examine your own mind and report your own behavior, thoughts, emotions, and sensations.
What is Introspection?
100
This allows the recycling of valuable chemicals. Occurs when neurotransmitters are reabsorbed back into the same neuron it was released from via the synapse.
What is Reuptake?
100
This involves the input of information into the memory system.
What is Encoding?
100
The inability to remember new information after the point of trauma
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
100
In the 1982 movie, E.T., the alien E.T. has a popular scene eating this candy.
What are Reese's Pieces?
200
Focuses on the unconscious and how it influences behavior. Most of the contents of the unconscious are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict.
What is the Psychoanalytic Theory?
200
If someone was color blind, they would have issues with these photoreceptors.
What are Cones?
200
The transfer of information from short-term memory to long-term memory.
What is Memory Consolidation?
200
Organizing information into manageable bits.
What is Chunking?
200
The fictional town where the "boogeyman," Michael Myers is from.
Where is Haddonfield? 
300
Identify the independent and dependent variable:
Over the past five years, school officials found student enrollment decreases at Southern Pacific University as the price of tuition increases.
Independent: Price of tuition
Dependent: Student enrollment
300
A drug which blocks or prevents the effects of a neurotransmitter can be considered.
What is an Antagonist Drug?
300
When strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker memories.
What is the Arousal Theory?
300
The effects of misinformation from external sources which leads to the creation of false memories
What is Suggestibility?
300
What kind of doll is Chucky in "Child's Play"?
A Good Guys doll
400
This type of hypothesis can be proven wrong or false.
What is a Falsifiable Hypothesis?
400
The endocrine system discharges these into the bloodstream and travel throughout the body, affecting any cells that contain receptors for them.
What are Hormones?
400
The process of bringing up old memories.
What is Reconstruction?
400
According to Schacter (2001), transience, suggestibility, and persistence are examples of these types of memory errors.
What are the 7 Sins of Memory?
400
Jason Voorhees, a slasher in the Friday the 13th series, used a variety of masks throughout the movies. Which movie did Jason debut his popular hockey mask?
What is Friday the 13th part 3?
500
Within 30 seconds, someone steps on a scale and receives a different weight every time. The scale does not demonstrate:
What is Reliablity?
500
When an electrical signal moves through the neurons for them to communicate with each other, and information is processed and transmitted throughout the body.
What is Action Potential?
500
Memories of facts and events we can consciously remember and recall are considered:
What are Explicit (Declarative) Memories?
500
When old information hinders the recall of newly learned information.
What is Proactive Interference?
500
An African-American man who was brutally murdered for a forbidden 19th-century interracial love affair. Seeking revenge, you'll be on the hook if you dare to say his name 5 times while looking in the mirror!
Who is Candyman?
