All Things Biological & Evolutionary
When you get jump-scared, your body floods with this hormone, triggering your evolutionary "fight or flight" response.
What is adrenaline (or epinephrine)?
This famous personality test involves looking at random, symmetrical inkblots and saying the first thing that comes to your mind.
What is the Rorschach test?
The threatening daily notifications from the green owl on this language app are a perfect example of trying to condition your daily behavior.
What is Duolingo?
Millions of people falsely remembering that the Monopoly Man has a monocle or Pikachu has a black-tipped tail is known as this phenomenon.
What is the Mandela Effect?
Changing your behavior or clothes just to fit in with a group is known as this.
What is conformity?
Evolutionary psychologists believe human babies evolved to be incredibly cute specifically so that adults would do this.
What is take care of them (not abandon them)?
This classic movie therapy trope involves a patient lying down on one of these pieces of furniture to talk about their feelings.
What is a couch?
Hearing a specific ding or buzz and instantly reaching into your pocket without even thinking is a modern example of this type of conditioning.
What is classical conditioning?
In 2015, the entire internet had a cognitive meltdown arguing over whether a picture of this clothing item was black and blue or white and gold.
What is a dress?
Doing zero work on a group presentation because you know your nerd partner will finish it anyway is known in psychology as social ________.
What is [social] loafing?
This famous 1800s railroad worker survived an iron rod blasting through his skull, proving that the frontal lobe controls personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
When you accidentally call your teacher "Mom" or "Dad," you've just made this famous type of unconscious verbal mistake.
What is a Freudian slip?
Wearing a specific pair of "lucky socks" to every game because you happened to wear them during a championship win is an example of this.
What is a superstition (or superstitious behavior)?
Ignoring all the massive red flags in a toxic friend just because you want to believe they are a good person is an everyday example of this bias.
What is confirmation bias?
The tendency for people to completely lose their sense of individual identity and morals when participating in a massive riot or mob is called this.
What is deindividuation (or mob mentality)?
These chemical messengers, like dopamine and serotonin, are responsible for transferring signals between your brain cells.
What are neurotransmitters?
According to the psychodynamic perspective, the bizarre things that happen to you in these while you sleep are actually your brain acting out repressed desires.
What are dreams?
If your parents take away your phone for a week because you missed curfew, they are using this specific type of "negative" consequence.
What is negative punishment?
Walking into the kitchen and completely forgetting why you went in there is a failure of this specific brain function.
What is short-term memory (working memory)?
Changing your vocabulary, tone, and personality depending on whether you are talking to your parents or your best friends is known as this.
What is code-switching?
This almond-shaped part of your brain controls intense emotions like fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
If you are secretly extremely competitive but constantly accuse all your friends of turning everything into a competition, you are using this defense mechanism.
What is projection?
This famous psychology experiment involved adults beating up an inflatable clown toy to prove that kids learn aggressive behavior just by watching others.
What is the Bobo Doll experiment?
Playing a video game for so many hours straight that you start seeing the blocks falling or the map when you close your eyes is known as this effect.
What is the Tetris effect?
The "bystander effect" says that if you get hurt in a massive crowd, people are actually less likely to help you because of the diffusion of this.
What is responsibility?