Food
Cider, pie, and crumble are common foods and drinks made from this fruit.
Apples
This giant Ice Age mammal resembled an elephant but had long, curved tusks and a shaggy coat.
What is the 'Wooly Mammoth?'
The destruction or remove of tissue.
What is ablation?
This classic debate asks whether genes or environment play a bigger role in shaping human behaviour.
What is nature vs. nurture?
According to this theory, bodily changes like increased heart rate happen first, causing us to feel an emotion afterward.
What is the James-Lange Theory?
What is butter?
Often confused with its larger relative, this extinct striped marsupial from Tasmania was also known as the Tasmanian tiger.
What is Thylacine?
This 19th-century pseudoscience claimed that a person’s character and mental abilities could be determined by feeling the bumps and contours on their skull.
What is Phrenology?
This developmental process involves forming emotional bonds with caregivers during infancy.
What is attachment?
In this theory of emotion, the thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex and the autonomic nervous system, producing both bodily responses and the experience of emotion at the same time.
Cannon-Bard (Thalamic) Theory
This Italian dish consists of thin dough topped with sauce, cheese, and various toppings, then baked.
What is Pizza?
This flightless bird from Mauritius went extinct in the 1600s, partly because it had no natural predators before humans arrived.
What is the dodo?
Damage to this lobe of the brain can cause visual disturbances, because it’s the primary centre for processing sight.
What is the occipital lobe?
This type of development includes changes in thinking, memory, and problem-solving abilities across the lifespan.
What is cognitive development?
Darwin believed facial expressions are universal because they evolved to communicate ______ across cultures.
What is emotion? (Survival-function)
This spice, often paired with cinnamon, comes from the dried flower buds of an evergreen tree.
What are cloves?
This Pleistocene predator, larger than modern lions, had distinctive saber-like canine teeth.
Saber-tooth tiger (Smilodon)
This 19th-century railroad worker became famous in neuropsychology after an iron tamping rod passed through his frontal lobe, drastically altering his personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
During adolescence, this type of thinking emerges, allowing individuals to consider hypothetical and abstract ideas.
What is formal operational thinking?
Cannon and Bard challenged the James-Lange theory, arguing that emotions and bodily responses occur ______ rather than sequentially.
Simultaneously (at the same time)
The term for this food was partly inspired by 19th-century cartoons joking that German sausages might contain questionable meat.
What is a hotdog?
This giant flightless bird from New Zealand, standing up to 3 metres tall, was hunted to extinction by the Maori.
What is the Moa?
Damage to this language-processing region in the left temporal lobe can cause fluent but nonsensical speech and difficulty understanding others.
What is Wernicke's Area?
Twin and adoption studies are often used in lifespan psychology to estimate this statistical measure that reflects how much of a trait is explained by genetic factors rather than environment.
What is heritability?
In the context of emotional psychology, Lazarus emphasized that it is not just the event but this mental process that determines the intensity and type of emotion felt.
What is cognitive appraisal?