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Limerick Challenge
100
This early school of psychology focused on the purpose or consequences of mental actions, rather than the individual components of thought.
What is functionalism?
100
This measure of central tendency is the sum of all the scores being assessed divided by the number of scores assessed.
What is the mean?
100
These 46 assortments of DNA are the basis for your genome.
What are chromosomes?
100

This is the neurotransmitter strongly associated with a sense of reward, focus, and motor control.

What is dopamine?

100

To send a signal without a "neuron-phone",
about how much we need to grow our jawbone,
we choose to use
a system whose
main function is to control our _______________.

What are hormones?

200

This area of psychological research is focused largely on the diagnoses and treatment of psychological disorders.

What is "Clinical Psychology"?

200
This measure of variance is the highest score minus the lowest score.
What is the range?
200

This is the result of our unique self, built from our genetics and environmental experiences and influences.

What is a phenotype?

200

This term highlights how neural connections can grow stronger or weaker as a result of experience.

What is neural plasticity?

200

How much of me is made by experience accidental?
Or am I the result of something more elemental?
So how did I grow?
The person who'd know
is an expert psychologist __________________.

What is developmental?

300
This is a testable statement, intended to provide a context to assess the validity of a theory.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This measure, signified by the letter r, is a measure of the extent to which two variables are related.
What is the correlation coefficient?
300

Neurons have these extensions, allowing them to send signals to distant or nearby places depending on their length and construction.

What are axons?

300

These are the networks of neurons (both controlled and automatic) that go from the central nervous system to the peripheral nervous system.

What are efferent networks?

300

To determine what makes the best so ascendant,
or what makes a really good flight attendant,
I must control
most of the whole
but manipulate the variable ________________.

What is independent?

400
This method of data collection asks many questions of many people, assessing them on a variety of variables in a short period of time.
What is a survey?
400

A sample is a measured subset or portion of this "body" of interest.

What is the population?

400
This is the percentage of DNA shared between identical twins.
What is 100%?
400

Our sense of hunger and our body's internal thermostat are influenced by this organ located in the neck.

What is the thyroid?

400

This room is stressful. It's the aesthetic.
My skin crawls like its electromagnetic.
Something is errant,
or perhaps its inherent,
maybe its me and my nervous system ___________.

What is sympathetic?

500

This method of data collection has been largely abandoned due to its unreliable and invalid approach to collecting information on internal thoughts and feelings.

What is introspection?

500

This is the type of research which tracks individuals over time, comparing them to themselves.

What is longitudinal research?

500
Action potentials are the result of neurons becoming more positively charged as a result of moving these two ions through their cell walls.

What are sodium and potassium?

500

This portion of the brain is associated with processing auditory information as well as accessing memory.

What is the temporal lobe?

500

The axon it doth lie underneath,
these cells wrapped 'round like a wreath,
They make it quicken,
that which is hidden,
the potential coursing under the _______________.

What is the myelin sheath?