Neurotransmitters and the Brain
The Eye / The Ear
Memory and Thinking
Miscellaneous Requests
True Miscellaneous
100
Preliminary research into split brain patients and hemispheric specialization was conducted by Roger Sperry and this researcher.
Who is Michael Gazzaniga?
100
Our eyes contain color receptors for these three colors.
What are red, green and blue?
100
Memorizing words based on their sound is called ___________ processing.
What is phonemic?
100
The dependent variable in Loftus' study involving the two cars "smashing" into one another was this.
What is perceived speed of the vehicles?
100
Chappell Roan's real first name is _________________.
What is Kayleigh?
200
Sandra is becoming more tired and irritable as the day goes on and after she has missed her lunch break. She gets easily frustrated and "Hangry" until she gets her lunch. Her frustration is driven by this hormone and this part of the brain respectively. (100 pts each)
What are ghrelin and the hypothalamus?
200
The retina has a higher concentration of these specialized cells in comparison to the other type of cells.
What are rods?
200
John was looking for his keys, which he normally leaves in the same place every day. John failed to look elsewhere in his house, even though his keys were in plain sight in his bedroom. John is demonstrating a _________ _________. (2 words)
What is perceptual set?
200
This type of drug will block the receptor sites of a particular neurotransmitter causing reduction in that neurotransmitter's activity.
What is an antagonist?
200
The closest living relative of the sloth is this animal.
What is the Anteater?
300
Daily Double
Choose as a team how many points you would like to wager.
(Correct = Gain that many points, Incorrect = Lose that many points)
High doses of Quinine reduce muscle excitability, making it harder for muscles to move. Quinine is likely an antagonist for this neurotransmitter.
300
Very few people are this type of colorblind, in which they experience no color at all.
What is monochromatism?
300
Billithan forgot that his homework was due today, and only remembered once the teacher started circulating around the room to check it. Billithan experienced a failure in this type of memory.
What is prospective?
300
This dream theory states that dreams are a result of random neural firing that occurs during REM sleep.
What is the Activation-Synthesis theory?
300
The writer of the earliest version of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, was a member of this US political party in the late 1800's.
What is the Socialist Party?
400
Your hypothalamus, amygdala and other central brain structures are located within this system.
What is the limbic system?
400
Complete the analogy. Transduction in the eye is to retina as transduction in the ear is to _______.
The cochlea
400
Mr. MacKinnon's 9th grade geometry teacher was a former bodybuilder. Many students falsely assumed that he was most likely a gym teacher because he matched their __________ __________. (2 words)
What is representativeness heuristic?
400
Daily Double
Choose as a team how many points you would like to wager.
(Correct = Gain that many points, Incorrect = Lose that many points)
A 60 year old patient with a metal rod surgically installed in their neck is most likely to use this type of scan to examine their brain's structure when looking for a tumor.
400
After 5 moves each from black and white, there are this many possible positions in a game of chess. (Closest wins)
What is 69,352,859,712,417?
500
This connective tissue between your left and right hemispheres allow for communication between each half of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
500
As you turn your speakers from 0 to 5, you notice that the music gets louder, but when your friend cranks the volume from 95 to 100, you don't. Your experience demonstrates this perceptual phenomenon.
What is Weber's Law?
500
When trying to remember a 6 digit confirmation code for logging into an online account, people will often repeat that code in their head over and over, demonstrating this component of the working memory model.
What is phonological loop?
500
The logo below best demonstrates this Gestalt Principle.
What is figure-ground?
500
The capital of Turkmenistan is ____________.
What is Ashgabat?