Halloween History
Name any tradition of Halloween.
Possible answers: bobbing for apples, trick-or-treating, pulling pranks on neighborhoods, wearing costumes
The part of the brain that's responsible for the fear response.
What is the amygdala?
The reason why we find some scary situations (e.g. rollercoasters and movies) exciting and other scary situations not.
What is predictability?
Other answers: nucleus accumbens
The pathway of fear that can be summed as "not taking any chances".
What is the low road?
The fear of enclosed spaces.
What is claustrophobia?
What are the Irish immigrants?
The part of the brain that helps mediate the amygdala. PTSD patients have lower brain activity in this region of the brain.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The process by which Little Albert learned to be scared of white furry objects.
What is fear conditioning?
Other acceptable answers: Pavlovian conditioning, classical conditioning
The pathway of fear that uses the sensory cortex and hippocampus.
What is the high road?
The fear of holes.
What is trypophobia?
This famous phrase uttered on Halloween by children was originally meant as a threat for homeowners into giving them candy.
The part of the brain that interprets sensory information.
What is the sensory cortex?
The process in which a learned fear is lost after it is no longer trained.
What is extinction?
The system that is activated by the hypothalamus in the flight or fight response. This system is responsible for changes in the bloodstream (e.g. accelerated heart rate). It releases a hormone called ACTH.
What is the adrenal-cortical system?
The fear of heights.
The historic name for Halloween, which meant the day before All Saint's Day.
What is "All Hallows Eve"?
The part of the brain that decides where to send incoming sensory information.
What is the thalamus?
The recovery of a learned fear after it was "unlearned".
What is spontaneous recovery?
The system that is activated by the hypothalamus in the flight or fight response. This system is responsible for physiological changes with the body. It releases stress hormones.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The fear of spiders or scorpions.
(Hint: spiders are arachnids).
What is arachnophobia?
An alternate name to All Saint's Day.
Hint: This name means "mass of the saints"
What is Hallowmas?
What is the hippocampus?
This study involved two deck of cards, one with high risk and one with guaranteed rewards. Patients who were unable to experience fear repeatedly chose the one with higher risk.
What is the Iowa Gambling Task?
The name of a third possible instinctual response to danger.
Hint: The first two are in the title of this category: Fight and Flight. There's a third response.
What is "freeze"?
The fear of situations or places you can't escape from.
What is agoraphobia?