Psychology
The variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
This brain imaging technique uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
Which continent in the world has the least amount of reported COVID cases?
What is Africa? (3 cases!)
This faculty member was once a professional ballet dancer.
Who is Chelsea Pierotti?
At age 13, she is the youngest Disney Princess.
Who is Snow White?
An experiment conducted in 1963 on obedience to authority figures, named after the head psychologist at Yale University.
What is the Milgram Experiment?
A structure at the base of the brain that is important for the coordination of movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
What is the title of John Krasinski's Youtube series that highlights positive events from around the world?
What is “Some Good News”?
This faculty member slept overnight in Manchester train station after attending a Pink Floyd concert.
Who is Heidi Day?
This Disney character said the famous line: “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
Who is Rafiki?
Those who have this most common type of schizophrenia often suffer from delusions of persecution
What is paranoid?
The hippocampus inhibits neurons from this stress response system, thereby decreasing the production and release of hormones such as cortisol.
What is the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis?
These marine animals have returned to Venetian waters amidst the global lock-down due to clearer waters.
What are dolphins?
This faculty member cut off their thumb while working construction in college.
Who is McKell Carston?
This is the number assigned to Lilo’s pet alien before she adopted him and gave him the name “Stitch” in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch.
Who is Experiment 626?
Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult
What is agoraphobia?
This scientist discovered the presence of chemical neurotransmitters by observing that a frog heart slowed down when exposed to the chemicals produced by another frog heart.
Who is Otto Loewi?
A 103-year-old celebrated with this drink after beating COVID-19?
What is a bud light? (alcohol or beer acceptable for answer)
This faculty member survived a heart attack while swimming across a lake.
Who is Tina Pittman-Wagers?
This is the name of the giant snow monster Elsa creates in Frozen to get rid of her sister Anna and her entourage from the ice palace.
Who is Marshmallow?
Named after a famous psychoanalyst, this unintentional error in speech is believed to reveal subconscious thoughts and feelings
What is a Freudian slip?
DAG and this molecule are produced from a phospholipid when the G-α protein activates PLC in a lipid signaling pathway.
What is IP3?
This amount of money has been donated to the COVID relief fund?
$10.2 million! (whoever gets closer gets points- This one is really hard!)
This faculty member is the first girl born on her father’s side of the family in over 100 years.
Who is Jennifer Stratford?
This is the name of Disney’s 1993 dark-fantasy musical that uses stop-motion animation to make physical objects appear like they are moving.
What is Nightmare Before Christmas?