Social Psychology
Stress and Sleep
Speech and Language
Cognition
Anatomy
200
Sometimes called selflessness, this refers to the tendency of people to sacrifice for others at no benefit to themselves.

What is altruism?

200

This part of the sleep cycle is the only point at which dreaming occurs.

What is REM sleep?

200

This term represents the basic sounds of a language divorced of all meaning

What is a phoneme?

200

This refers to a process of learning that involves developing step-by-step approaches to tasks, and requires active cognition to complete.

What is an algorithm?

200

This part of the brain deals with emotion and is located in the ridge between the parietal and temporal lobes

Insula

400

Sometimes called the sunk cost fallacy, it is the tendency of people to invest significant time, money or energy into something if they have invested a smaller amount beforehand

What is the Foot-in-the-door phenomenon?

400

This disorder is characterized by a temporary stoppage of breathing while sleeping, often resulting in the victim waking up suddenly.

What is sleep apnea?

400

This part of the brain is responsible for speech

Broca's Area 

400

The developing of working and long term memory requires this kind of cognitive activity.

What is Effortful Processing/Ecoding?

400

This part of the hind brain focuses on regulating breathing, heartbeat and pulse

Medulla

600

Social psychologists studying aggression developed a principle stating that this emotion is often solely sufficient to lead to aggression.

What is frustration?

600

This refers to ones ability to delay gratification and control emotions, and indicates a person much more capable of dealing with stress.

What is self-control?

600
This refers to advanced language concepts like sentence structure, word placement and tense, which are typically acquired after age 3.

What is grammar?

600

This memory and studying trick involves breaking down long lists of complex information into groups with related meaning.  You probably used it to learn your phone number.

What is chunking?

600

The connective tissue between the hemispheres of the brain

Corpus Callosum
800
This behavioral idea in social psychology points out that familiarity with an object or stimulus often increases preference for that object or stimulus

What is Mere Exposure Effect?

800

This form of emotion based coping response to stress and trauma involves offering an empathetic ear to someone suffering problems to build a social support group and is common among women and girls.

What is the tend-and-befriend response?

800

This stage of language acquisition typically happens around age 2, and is demonstrated by the ability to make simple 2-3 word sentences.

What is the telegraphic stage?

800

When old information interferes or prevents with the acquisition of new information or memories, it is called this:

What is proactive interference?

800

This part of the brain handles fine motor control

Motor Cortex

1000

This systemic exclusion from society can lead to feelings of depression and self-loathing

What is ostracism?

1000

This idea developed by Hans Selye argues that the body goes through three stages of stress response, first a flight or fight response, followed by resistance and finally exhaustion

What is General Adaptation Syndrome?

1000

If someone is suffering from aphasia, it is likely due to damage in this part of the brain.

What is Wernicke's area?

1000

When someone is confronted with a seemingly familiar but actually different problem, they often become frustrated that they can't solve it, likely because they're relying on this.

What is mental set?
1000

This part of the brain handles gross motor and earliest childhood memory

Cerebellum

1200
When confronted with a dangerous or emergent situation, people's willingness to get involved often depends on the actions of others, which is known as this.

What is the bystander effect?

1200

A common cause of stress and tension in cases of accident, illness or sudden death, is this deeply held social belief which argues that people get what they deserve.

What is the "just world phenomenon"

1200
This phenomenon refers to how we change our outward behavior and speech patterns to meet the expectations of a given social situation.

What is affect?

1200

This refers to the fact that when we memorize long sets of data, we tend have an easier time remembering the data points at the beginning or end of a list

What is the serial position effect?

1200

The ear drum, which transmits sound waves as vibration is present in this part of the ear.

What is the outer ear?