The gland that processes light and releases melatonin.
What is the pineal gland?
100
Author of Animal Farm and 1984 who said "If thought corrupts language, then langauge can corrupt thoughts."
Who is George Orwell.
100
This is the part of the neuron that contains the nucleus.
What is the cell body?
100
The name of the octopus that successfully guessed the winner of 8 world cup matches in a row.
Who is Paul.
200
What Dawkins calls humans/animal/vegetables as the specific conveyance for genes.
What are gene machines?
200
The usual length of a sleep cycle.
What is ninety minutes?
200
This native American language has no past tense.
What is Hopi?
200
This is the part of the neuron that ends in a terminal button and acts like the "quarterback" and sends messages.
What is the axon?
200
a proposal or set of proposals that defines, explains, organizes, and interrelates knowledge about behavior.
What is a theory.
300
"The Selfish Gene" uses a lot of this type of math in order to explain social interactions.
WHat is game theory?
300
The company who had a massive, dangerous oil spill due to negligence caused by a oil tanker driver's lack of sleep.
What is Exxon?
300
The number of words you should know by the time you graduate high school (on average).
What is sixty THOUSAND words?
300
This is the part of the neuron that branches like a tree and receives messages.
What is a dendrite?
300
A formal declarative statement about expectations for behavior under specific conditions.
What is a Hypothesis?
400
You are this related to your siblings.
What is 1/2 or share 50% of genes?
400
Condition where you fall asleep suddenly without any warning.
What is narcolepsy?
400
The typical amount of words in the entire English language, it's about 10-15% less than the amount of words in Romance languages like Spanish and French.
What is about 100,000?
400
Like a gun, an axon either will transmit signals once it reaches a conduction threshold or it will not at all. This is called ____.
What is "all or nothing" firing?
400
This woman became the first female president of the American Psychological Association.
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
500
The "gene" for culture or the short snippets of culture like tunes or internet jokes that are easily transmitted.
What are "memes"?
500
The shadow self is one of the archetypes discussed by this psychodynamics pioneer.
Who was Carl Jung?
500
Noam Chomsky said that children were inborn with this in order to help learn and process universal grammar rules.
What is a language acquisition device or LAD will be accepted too?
500
This neurotransmitter is often associated heavily with depression and drugs that help keep it in the brain and receptors are the backbone of most depression and anxiety treatments.
What is serotonin?
500
The perspective within psychology that focuses on how our genes and our environment influence our individual differences.