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This language is spoken by the most people on the planet.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
100
These are memories about the specific events of your life.
What are episodic or autobiographical memories?
100
This famous neurologist has the condition of face-blindness, or prosopagnosia, which he describes in interviews and articles.
Who is Oliver Sacks?
100
Wellington was killed with this garden tool.
What is a garden fork?
100
This organ uses 20% of our blood flow and 20% of our oxygen supply, but is only 2% of our body's total weight
What is the brain?
200
By what age must a person be exposed to and learn their first language, after which they may not be able to fully master any language.
What is 7 or 8
200
Remembering in vivid detail what you were doing on 9/11 is an example of this type of memory.
What is a flashbulb memory
200
This animal makes an appearance in classic experiment of Simons and Chabris which demonstrations selective attention or inattentional blindness.
What is a gorilla?
200
This teacher encouraged Christopher to write a book.
Who is Siobhan?
200
You are engaged in a conversation with your friends when you overhear someone at a nearby table say your name. This is an example of what effect?
What is the cocktail party effect?
300
What species uses dance to communicate the location of a food sources?
What is the honeybee?
300
In the film Memento, the main character has this type of amnesia.
What is anterograde amnesia.
300
This famous cognitive psychologist won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and published his best-selling book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, in 2011.
Who is Daniel Kahneman?
300
This event signifies a SUPER GOOD DAY for Christopher.
What is seeing 5 red cars in a row?
300
Which type of processing—top down or bottom up—explains why we experience visual illusions?
What is top down processing?
400
This is the process of perceiving individual words in the continuous flow of speech.
What is speech segmentation.
400
In his book, Daniel Schacter describes the ways in which our fallible memory can land us in trouble, which he calls the seven sins of memory. What are three of these?
What is transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, or persistence?
400
In the candle problem, the box containing tacks is sometimes ignored because of this psychological phenomenon that occurs during problem solving.
What is functional fixedness
400
These are three types of verbal expressions that Christopher doesn’t like or finds confusing.
What are lies, metaphors and jokes?
400
This neuroimaging procedure measures brain activity by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity.
What is fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging
500
Deaf children from this country spontaneously developed their own sign language in the 70s and 80s.
What is Nicaragua?
500
By using this strategy, it is easier to remember the following string of numbers once you recognize and know the pattern: 17761812186119171941.
What is chunking?
500
One study on implanting false memories involved showing subjects a false advertisement for Disneyland featuring this Warner Brothers cartoon character (Braun et al. 2002).
Who is Bugs Bunny?
500
In the Monty Hall Problem described by Christopher, there is a car behind one door, and these things behind the other two doors.
What are goats?
500
There are several conditions which may alter a person’s perception of time. Name three of them.
What is falling/having an accident, the effect of some drugs, Tourette’s syndrom, or having had encephalitis lethargica.