All About the Doctor!
In what subject is my PhD?
Philosophy
Tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen that outcome.
Hindsight Bias
Chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps between neurons.
Neurotransmitters
This 1997 film feature the line, "I'm the King of the World!"
Titanic
An organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
Habituation
The cause of most of my anxiety and stress!
Forced awkward human interactions or the potential of forced awkward human interactions
Statement of procedures used to define research variables.
Operational Definition
A nerve cell - the basic building block of the nervous system.
Neuron
TuPac and Biggie
A type of learning in which behavior strengthened by a reinforcer or diminished by a punisher.
operant conditioning
My favorite method of dealing with woodpeckers.
Throw a baseball at them!
The perception of a relationship where none exists
illusory correlation
The body's speedy electrochemical communication network.
Nervous system
What early internet service used dial-up and the phrase, "You've Got Mail."
AOL
A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience
Learning
The number of times I was fired from Picassos Pizza
Three!
Experimental procedure in which both the researchers and subjects are ignorant about who gets the placebo.
double-blind procedure
The division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body.
Sympathetic Nervous System
This Seattle band released the album Nevermind in 1991.
Nirvana!
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know
explicit memory
The most ridiculous member of the Social Studies Department.
PK
A statistical index of the relationship between two things.
Correlation coefficient
The level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
Threshold
Who sang, "I Will Always Love You" and what film was it in?
Whitney Houston and The Bodyguard
Impairment of language usually caused by left hemisphere damage to Broca's Area or Wernicke's area