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100

The colored part of the eye, that controls the size of the pupil, and how much light enters the eye.

What is the Iris?

100

The other term for sense of smell.

What is olfactory/olfaction?

100

While you were having a picnic with your significant other this alright song started playing. Now any time that song plays you start smiling and feeling happy. This is the UCS...

What is your significant other?

100

The 2 cells that exist within the retina of the eye, one perceiving black and white, the other, color.

What are Rods and Cones?

100

Pop fans are flooding NFL stadiums now that a romance has sparked between these two icons. 

Who are Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce?

200

Responsible for carrying the neural impulse from the eye to the visual cortex.

What is the Optic Nerve?

200

The rule in difference threshold that stimuli must change my a proportional percentage instead of a constant amount.

What is Weber's Law?

200

A kid is hit their sibling so their parent takes away their TV time. The parent is utilizing this operant technique.

What is negative punishment?

200

Smell and Taste are intertwined senses, this is better known by the term...

What is sensory interaction?

200

This movie by Jordan Peele was his first entry into psychological thrillers and was critically acclaimed.

What is Get Out?

300

The snail shaped structure in the inner ear, which uses fluid and hairs to transduct sound waves into neural impulses.

What is the Cochlea?

300

This is the lowest limit of a stimuli for perception to occur at least 50% of the time.

What is absolute threshold

300

A person eats a hamburger at a restaurant and develops a very bad stomachache after finishing eating. As a result of the sudden illness, the person cannot eat hamburgers anymore. Just thinking about them makes the person feel sick to the stomach. In this scenario, the thought of a hamburger is

What is Conditioned Stimulus?

300

Our ability to focus in on specific stimuli and drown out outside distractions. Quite useful at a loud cocktail party when you want to talk to your friend.

What is selective attention?

300

This sport is considered the "king of sports" as it is the most popular in the world.

What is Football (Soccer)? NOT AMERICAN FOOTBALL!

400

Focuses the image entering the eye to be projected on the wall of the eye.

What is the Lens?

400

As we experience constant exposure to the same stimuli, we stop noticing it.

What is sensory adaptation?

400

The concept in Operant Conditioning developed by Edward Thorndike that behaviors followed by desirable outcomes will occur more and those followed by undesirable will occur less.

What is the Law of Effect?

400

This concept explains why kids mimic the behavior they see their parents do. Observing other peoples behave results in individuals copying the same action. The concept of Modeling was demonstrated in this psychology experiment.

What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?

400

This singer has won the most Grammy awards in a lifetime.

Who is Beyonce?

500

Responsible for transduction of light waves into neural impulses.

What is the Retina?

500

The 5 types of flavors we taste with gustation.

What is...

1. Sweet

2. Sour

3. Salty

4. Bitter

5. Umami or Savory

500

A parent wants to reward they kid for being so consistent with their chores. So they let them stay home instead of going to the old folks home to clean old peoples diapers. These parents are effectively using this operant technique.

What is negative reinforcement?

500

When a conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus, a resulting decrease in the conditioned response is called

What is extinction? 

500

This breed of dog took the top spot from the 31 year reigning champ, the Labrador Retriever, to be named most popular breed in 2022.

What is the French Bulldog?

600

The membrane of the middle ear that begins the process of hearing by transferring sound waves as vibrations.

What is the eardrum?

600

The vestibular sense (balance/equilibrium) is perceived, impart, due to this structure in the ear.

What is semicircular canal?

600

You are in a coffee shop when you hear the familiar tone of your message notification. You excitingly reach for your phone only to find out in was someone else's phone and you have no texts. The excitement to the tone is what in classical conditioning?

What is a conditioned response?

600

Interposition, Relative Height, Linear Perspective are all monocular cues that allow us to see...

What is depth perception?

600

They set phasers to stun when this TV series became  the first to show an interracial kiss on American Network television.

What is Star Trek?

700

Both light and sound waves are measured by frequency and amplitude, but this is the unique perception of sound waves. Which is basically the quality of sound.

What is complexity or timbre?

700

This occurs when we fail to perceive an unexpected stimuli in plain sight due to lack of attention and not visual deficiency.

What is Inattentional Blindness?

700

While trying to encourage her student to turn in their assignments more regularly. A teacher gave the student a airhead for every 4 assignments submitted. The teacher is using this reinforcement schedule.

What is a Fixed Ratio?

700

When an conditioned response is triggered by related stimuli. Ex. A bell and a chime both trigger salivation.

What is Stimulus Generalization?

700

She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in 1903.

Who is Marie Curie?