Unit 1: Biological Bases of Behavior
Unit 2: Cognition
Unit 3: Development and Learning
Mr. MacKinnon Trivia
HCSS Miscellaneous
100

Grrr, your stomach goes, once you finally eat, this hormone is released, letting you know you're full.

What is Leptin?

100

Mental shortcuts to solve a problem can be described as this term. (Availability and Representativeness)

What is a heuristic?

100

As you get older, your fluid intelligence decreases, while this intelligence increases.

What is crystallized intelligence?

100

Mr. MacKinnon has taught / currently teaches this many older siblings from this class.

What is 2? (Jasmine / Ronya)

100

While currently the director of HCSS High School, Mrs. Trudeau formerly worked in this profession.

What is an audiologist/What is Audiology?

200

This stage of sleep is the deepest of all sleep stages, and is typically where we actually become rested.

What is REM?

200

Yr ablty to rd ths sntnc is mst nflncd by ths gstlt prncpl.

What is closure?

200

Substances that are harmful for a fetus during pregnancy are known by this name.

What is a teratogen?

200

Mr. MacKinnon got married in this year.

What is 2024?

200

These 2 teachers have set off the fire alarm in the past 9 years. (100 pts / Correct Answer)

Who are Mr. Demirhan and Mr. Padios?

300

DAILY DOUBLE: As a team, decide how many points to wager. (Up to your point total) Correct = Add Points, Incorrect = Subtract Points.

Race                     |                   Car

If a split-brained patient was shown the words above briefly, what would they verbally say that they saw?

300

The tendency to latch onto the first learned piece of information, is known as this nautically themed bias.

What is Anchoring bias?

300

The use of drugs follows this schedule of reinforcement.

What is Fixed Ratio/Continuous?

300

Mr. MacKinnon's wife teaches this grade level.

What is 1st grade?

300

Name all 4 married couples currently working at HCSS High School

Who are: Graham+Then, Injetis, Karadas', and Javi+Marianne


400

This structure in the brain is responsible for the regulation of automatic bodily functions like your heart rate and breathing.

What is the Medulla?

400

Rank these three levels of processing in order from shallowest to deepest.

Phonemic, Structural, Semantic

What are:

Structural, Phonemic, Semantic

400

Research by this major psychologist gave us the understanding that babies have depth perception.

Who is Eleanor Gibson?

400

Mr. MacKinnon was originally hired at HCSS to teach these two subjects. (200 pts / Correct)

What is World History 1 and US History 2?

400

DAILY DOUBLE: As a team, decide how many points to wager. (Up to your point total) Correct = Add Points, Incorrect = Subtract Points.

The two secretaries last names are __________ and __________.

500

As a neuron fires, it switches from a positive charge to a negative charge. This process is known as __________.

What is Depolarization?
500

Sternberg's theory of intelligence presented these intelligences as the key components of an individual. (Must list all for credit)

What are practical, analytical and creative?

500

The set of rules for any given language is known as _________.

What is grammar?

500

While he now lives in Springfield, MA, Mr. MacKinnon is originally from this town in Eastern Massachusetts

What is Wilmington, MA?

500

HCSS' phone number is

What is 413-594-9090