Biological Bases
Cocaine, Caffeine and Nicotine all fall under this classification of drug.
What are stimulants?
Transduction, or the process of changing from one form of energy to another, can occur in __________. (Multiple Correct answers)
What is: The Synapse, The Cochlea, The Retina, The Skin, The Tongue, etc.
Your ability to remember that you have a test on Friday relies on this memory system.
What is prospective memory?
In an investigation of whether colorblind individuals are better or worse at obeying traffic lights, a researcher decides to sample 50 colorblind individuals and 50 non-colorblind individuals. They put those drivers through a series of driving tests and then calculate their overall performance. They are likely using this research method.
What is a Quasi Experiment?
In Chess, while Pawns are worth 1 point, Knights and Bishops are worth 3 points, and the Rook is worth 5 points, the Queen is worth this many points.
What is 9 points?
While your fight or flight response is regulated by the sympathetic nervous system, this neurotransmitter is most likely to be involved in your rest and digest response.
What is GABA?
By focusing on your phone while driving, you are inherently vulnerable to this type of blindness, decreasing your safety on the road.
What is Inattentional Blindness?
If Mr. MacKinnon called Stanley "Dillen" (The name of his older sibling), he has fallen victim to this type of interference.
What is Proactive interference?
In a correlational study, the output of the data is often represented by a correlation coefficient, often depicted by this singular letter.
What is r?
While a teacher now, Mr. MacKinnon held a street-performing license and was a street performer for a summer outside of this Ivy League School's Campus.
What is Harvard University?
In order to examine a patient with suspected brain damage, doctors may use this scanning technique which utilized magnetic waves to image inside the body.
What is a MRI?
Your ability to notice when the Air Conditioning turns on, changing the temperature in a room by even 1 degree means that the change in temperature reached this threshold.
What is difference threshold?
Jarvis suffers from a concussion in his football game. He is able to recall his name, his past and his address, but he struggles when returning to classes to learn new information. He is likely suffering from this type of amnesia.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
One advantage of naturalistic observations is that they negate the impact of this phenomenon in which participants act differently when they know they are being watched.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
The Titanic, sinking in 1912, resulted in approximately this many deaths. (Closest answer wins)
What is 1500?
A neuron will either fire or it won't, otherwise known as this principle.
What is the All-or-none principle?
This monocular cue for depth perception posits that objects seen as complete are closer, and objects that look incomplete must be further away.
What is interposition?
While the Information Processing Model and Multi-Store Model describe memory systems and the processes of encoding, storage and retrieval, this memory model emphasizes systems like the central executive and the visuospatial sketchpad.
What is the Working Memory Model?
In Elizabeth Loftus' experiment on the misinformation effect, this was the dependent variable.
What is the speed of the car?
While we commonly use No. 2 pencils in an educational setting, the US system for scaling pencils ranges from 1 to this number.
What is 4?
Don't panic! As this hormone regulates your feelings of stress and anxiety.
What is Cortisol?
This gestalt principle allows you to read REM MBER as the complete word Remember, even though it is incomplete.
What is closure?
When you repeat something over and over again in your head, you are likely utilizing this element of the Working Memory Model.
What is the Phonological Loop?
This regulatory board for animal testing would have objected to Harlow's experiment on contact comfort in Rhesus Monkeys.
What is the IACUC?
While Tylenol does not in fact cause autism in pregnancy, it is sometimes referred to as acetaminophen or this generic name, more common in European Countries.
What is Paracetamol?