Terminology
Study of the mind and behavior
What is psychology?
Building blocks of the brain; communicate via electrical signals sent down axons
What are neurons?
Austrian founder of psychoanalysis who studied unconscious thoughts and motivations; created the id, ego, and superego
Who was Sigmund Freud?
TUPS stands for...
What is The Undergraduate Psychology Society?
Kerckhoff appeared in this 2023 film starring Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh.
What is Oppenheimer?
Sympathetic nervous system response when a bear attacks
What is fight-or-flight?
Name the four lobes of the brain
What are the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes?
Experimental neurologist who studied conditioning using dogs, food, and a bell
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
How many points a quarter do you need to remain an active member of TUPS?
What is four?
The most popular major at UCLA
What is political science?
The study of an individual's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes throughout their life
What is developmental psychology?
Memory storage and processing center in the limbic system
What is the hippocampus?
American psychologist who created a hierarchy of needs
Who was Abraham Maslow?
Name three of the committees that make up TUPS!
Community Engagement, Data Analytics, Design & Marketing, Events, Finance, Internal Affairs
Where was UCLA's campus originally located before Westwood?
What is Hollywood?
Neurotransmitter associated with Alzheimer's
What is acetylcholine?
Connects the two hemispheres of the brain; used to be severed surgically via lobotomies
What is the corpus callosum?
Swiss psychologist who greatly influenced modern personality theory; created archetypes
Who was Carl Jung?
When and Where are our weekly meetings?
6 - 7 pm at Room 3851 in Pritzker Hall on Tuesdays
What is Janss Steps' other name?
What is Tongva Steps?
Attachment style in which the infant feels anxious in the presence of the caregiver, protests when they leave, and is not comforted when they return
What is anxious-ambivalent attachment?
Receptor cells that are responsible for color vision
What are cones?
Canadian-American psychology who studied observational learning using bobo dolls; created the social learning theory
Who was Albert Bandura?
TUPS's mission statement, word for word (closest team gets the point!)
We want to help our members prepare for the professional world, post-college, through an exploration of ideas that encourage real-world applications of their interest in psychology.
Famous 1951 novel that was written in the Powell Library basement
What is Fahrenheit 451?