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100
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug.
What is tolerance?
100

This group in an experiment does not receive the experimental treatment and serves as a baseline for comparison.

What is the Control Group?

100
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
100
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
100

In Pokémon, it is the only type that the Electric Type is weak to.

What is Ground Type?

200

One of the major categories of psychoactive drugs.

What are depressants, stimulants, or hallucinogens?

200
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
200
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia
200
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Attribution theory?
200

This horror film, released in 2025, deals with themes such as vampires, religion, and music.

What is Sinners?

300
This narcotic drug that leads to physiological dependence and the development of tolerance; derivatives are morphine, heroine, and codeine.
What is opium?
300

An in-depth, detailed investigation of a single individual, group, or event, often used to study rare clinical conditions.

What is a Case Study?

300
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system?
300

While studying the digestive systems of dogs, this Russian physiologist accidentally discovered classical conditioning.

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

300

This animated character from Gravity Falls owns a pet pig named Waddles.

Who is Mabel?

400
A stimulant, this drug has the potential for both a psychological and physiological dependence. This drug boosts mental alertness, reduces the need for sleep, induces a pleasurable rush, and causes a loss of appetite.
What are amphetamines?
400
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
400
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
400
In 1943, Abraham Maslow created this Psychological Theory that explains human motivation through a 5-level pyramid.

What is the Hierarchy of Needs?

400

After more than 150 years, he is still the tallest president in U.S. History.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

This life-saving injection pen is used to treat severe allergic reactions, also known as anaphylaxis.

What is an EpiPen (epinephrine)?

500
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
500

The small structure deep inside the brain that links the nervous system to the endocrine system and keeps the body's internal state balanced.

What is the hypothalamus?

500
Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning
What is social learning theory?
500

This massive, centuries-old storm on the planet Jupiter is large enough to swallow Earth

What is the Great Red Spot?

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