Neuroscience
This lobe helps you see the world around you
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The process scientists use to come to conclusions.
What is the scientific method?
The tendency to change your behavior or opinions to match the people around you.
What is Conformity?
Evidence that your brain doesn’t always see reality as it is.
What are optical illusions
Based on the core concept that spending time in nature helps reduce stress, improve mood and foster general well-being.
What is Green Therapy?
This part of the brain helps you plan ahead, make decisions, and control impulses.
What is the prefrontal cortex/frontal lobe?
This experiment showed that people often change their answers to match a group, even when the group is clearly wrong.
What is the Asch Conformity Experiment?
The tendency to like something more simply because you've encountered it many times before.
What is the mere exposure effect?
The tendency to miss a change because you weren't paying attention to it.
What is Change Blindness
There is much evidence that this animal forms friendships similar to humans.
What are cows?
This part of the brain let's you know that you accidentally touched a hot pan.
What is the parietal lobe?
This famous study examined whether people would obey an authority figure, even when it meant appearing to harm another person.
What is the Stanley Milgram Experiment?
The theory suggesting that social media can especially help people who struggle to make friends offline.
What is the Social Compensation Hypothesis?
The belief that other people see the world exactly the way you do.
What is naive realism?
What is the reason for the home-field advantage in sports?
What is the referee wanting to be liked by the crowd?
This brain area is the control center for emotion and memory.
This experiment shows the limits of attention and the extent that change blindness can impact people.
What is the Invisible Gorilla Experiment
This activates the same areas of the brain as physical pain.
What is Social Pain?
Rebuilt every time you remember it despite seeming like it is stored like a movie.
What is memory?
Mental models that help organize and sort information.
What is a Schema?
This hormone causes you to feel stressed out and makes your heart beat fast.
What is cortisol?
This phenomena demonstrates how difficult it is to process a color word, like red/blue, when written in a different color ink.
A social learning phenomenon that is unique to humans. The reason why your little siblings/cousins copy you.
What is overimitation?
The feeling that everyone is paying much more attention to you than they really are.
What is the Spotlight Effect?
The assumption that anyone in a different group MUST be biased.
What is False Polarization?