- Named after the patron saint of sailors, what term describes the bright bluish glow that is seen on top of the masts of ships during thunderstorms?
St. Elmo’s Fire
- What does the Flanker Test assess?
Attention in the presence of distracting information
- What is the process of growing plants in air without the use of soil called?
Aeroponics
- Name the Swiss scientist who synthesized LSD in 1938 while working for Sandoz and serendipitously discovered its hallucinogenic effect in 1943
Albert Hofmann
- What is the name given to the medical disorder which is characterized by an abnormal appetite for non-nutritive substances like soil, chalk, paper etc?
Pica
- The astrophysicist and cosmologist Brandon Carter put forward the theory in 1973 that the fundamental constants of physics and chemistry are precisely the values you need if you want to have a universe capable of producing life. What is this theory called?
The Anthropic Principle
- Edward de Bono, who pioneered the concept of Lateral Thinking, also coined a term
Provocation Operation
- What word was coined by the famous economist philosopher Jeremy Bentham from the Latin phrase for ‘he himself said’ to describe non-utilitarian political arguments?
ipsedixitism
- Proposed by the psychologist Claude Steele, what term describes the fear that a person’s behaviour will confirm an existing stereotype of the group with which that person is identified?
Stereotype Threat
- First described by Colette Dowling, who wrote a book on women's fear of independence, what term describes as an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others, based primarily on a fear of being independent?
The Cinderella Complex
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