Memory
Language, thinking, decision-making
Psychological disorders
Social psychology
Wildcard
100

Storage of brief sensory events like sights, sounds, and tastes.

What is sensory memory?

100

The smallest unit of meaning in a language. 

What are morphemes? 

100

Abysmal conditions in asylums and the discovery of drugs like Thorazine led to _________.

What is deinstitutionalization?

100

When we compare ourselves to someone who is doing better than us and feel motivated, we are making a ____________ social comparison.

What is an upward social comparison?

100

When I recall my trip to LA and drinking an overpriced Hailey Bieber smoothie, this is an example of ______ memory. 

What is episodic memory?
200

Loss of memory for events that occurred prior to trauma. 

What is retrograde amnesia?

200

Basing estimates of frequency or probability on the ease of which examples come to mind. 

What is the availability heuristic? 

200

A perspective on mental illness that states that someone has to have both an underlying vulnerability, and a stressor in order to develop a psychological disorder.

What is the diathesis-stress model?

200

When we judge others’ behaviour, we overestimate the impact of their traits like intelligence or personality.

What is the fundamental attribution error? 

200
Someone who says how a problem should have been dealt with by others after it has already been dealt with.

What is the Monday Morning Quarterback?

300

The transfer of memories from STM to LTM.

What is memory consolidation?

300

The more prototypical a crime is, the more people tend to believe it. This is a consequence of the ________.

What is the representativeness heuristic?

300
A psychological disorder characterized by persistent, unwanted thoughts and repetitive, ritualistic acts. 
What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
300

The tendency of people to alter their behaviour as a result of group pressure. 

What is conformity?

300

Difficulty conceptualizing that an object typically used for one purpose can be used for another. 

What is functional fixedness?

400

When learning something new interferes with something you’ve previously learned. 

What is retroactive interference?

400

What the judge considers an appropriate sentence may be influenced by what is recommended by the Crown prosecutor. This is an example of ______.

What is anchoring?

400
If a person is not able to understand the nature or objects of criminal proceedings, understand the consequences, and are unable to communicate with counsel, they would be found ________.

Unfit to stand trial 

400

Adhering to instructions from those of higher authority. 

What is obedience?

400

Brief, intense episodes of extreme fear characterized by sweating, dizziness, lightheadedness etc. 

What is a panic attack?

500

Where post-event information alters or becomes incorporated into the original memory.

What is the misinformation effect?

500

The view that we represent all thinking linguistically.

What is linguistic determinism?

500

Someone with this psychological disorder may be referred to as psychotic. 

What is schizophrenia?

500
a social norm that people repay in kind what others have done for them. 

What is the norm of reciprocity? 

500

If a person is suffering from a mental disorder at the time they committed a crime, they may be found ______. 

Not criminally responsible by reasons of mental disorder (NCRMD)