The key confound or problem in studies that reported successful sleep learning
What is "participants would momentarily wake up during the study?"
100
Freud's term for purging anger and other negative emotions
What is "catharsis?"
100
Supposed improvement of infants' intelligence that results from early exposure to classical music
What is "The Mozart Effect?"
100
Occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of mental efficiency and reality testing
What is "groupthink?"
200
An inability to form new memories
What is anterograde amnesia?
200
The theory that our moods quickly adjust to most life circumstances, therefore our happiness stays relatively constant
What is "the hedonic treadmill?"
200
Type of aggression that is appears to be higher in girls
What is "relational aggression?"
200
The tendency to believe that one's own beliefs are more widely shared than they actually are
What is "the false consensus effect?"
300
VAK
What is "visual, auditory, and kinesthetic," one of the most commonly studied types of learning styles?
300
If a memory is harder to retrieve, it must be negative
What is "a common belief people have about memories that leads them to believe in repressed memories."
300
Little discussed reason why childhood autism rates might be skyrocketing
What is "because the diagnostic criteria for autism have become broader" or "because children who would have once been classified as mentally retarded are now classified as autistic."
300
The more people present at an event, the less pressure any one individual feels to act
What is "diffusion of responsibility."
400
The tissue connecting the left and right hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
400
The income level where the relationship between happiness and money disappears
What is "$50,000?"
400
Alternative explanation for the legendary Mozart effect
What is "increased short term arousal?"
400
Two myths about the difference in men and women's communication styles
What is "1) women talk more than men, 2) women disclose more than men, or 3) men interrupt more than women."
500
The cells that make up 90% of the brain
What are glial cells?
500
In Bushman's study, the group that stayed the angriest
What is "the ruminating group / rumination condition?"
500
Name of the researcher whose famous article on autism was revoked
What is "Andrew Wakefield?"
500
The statistic that tells us how large a difference is between two groups, relative to the variability within those groups