Definitions
1.
When something good happens, we think it’s because we’re awesome and that’s why the good thing happened. (Self-Serving Bias)
2.
The feeling we don’t look good in the eyes of others; self-conscious (Shame)
3.
How a person evaluates themselves as being good or bad in particular ways
(Self-Esteem)
4.
Any investment that will increase an offspring’s chance of survival at the cost of the parent’s ability to invest in other offspring (Parental Investment)
5.
A claim about the cause of someone’s behavior (Attribution)
6.
The tendency to believe that other people are paying closer attention to one’s appearance and behavior than they really are (The Spotlight Effect)
7.
Understanding that the process by which something is transformed can be reversed to bring it back to its original form (Reversability)
8.
A theory that all of the parts of our mental life come from a material, physical brain. It is a foundational idea of modern psychology. (The “Astonishing
Hypothesis”)
9.
The argument that God is the creator of the biological world (Creationism)
10.
Rules & principles that put words & phrases together to make meaningful sentences (Syntax)
11.
Parts of the human body that don’t serve a purpose, but we have them anyway
(Vestigial Structures)
12.
The field of study devoted to language (Linguistics)
13.
One of the 2 main factors at the root of human differences; a person's style in dealing with the world and with other people; something you carry around with you (Personality)

14.
One of the 2 main factors at the root of human differences; No easy definition of intelligence. It’s one of those things you have a gut feeling about. Abstract reasoning, problem solving, memory, creativity (Intelligence)
15.
What you do makes sense, and if it doesn’t or it’s something that makes you look foolish or cheap or manipulative, you’ll distort it in your head so that it does make sense (Insufficient Justification Effect)
16.
Males mated with a female become uninterested in further copulation, but if a new female is available, the male becomes interested in copulation again (The
Coolidge Effect)
17.
Systems of sounds used in language (Phonology)
18.
Possess a big sex cell that carries genes and food and has a protective covering
(egg) (Female)
19.
How words are formed in language (Morphology)
20.
Possess a small sex cell that carries genes and nothing else (sperm cell) (Male)
21.
How to make a sentence (Noun, Verb, Noun) (Combinatorial System)
22.
Differences caused by phenomena people raised in the same household share
(Shared Environment)
23.
It has been argued that this theory is the most important idea in the sciences
(Natural Selection)
24.
It is not possible to experience this feeling totally in a relationship. Isolation happens in the best of relationships (Intimacy)
25.
These increase in children as they begin to learn to deal with stressful situations
(Temper Tantrums)