AP Psych Jeopardy Review: Midterm 1

• Taking away something unpleasant to promote behavior –

NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT
• Part of the brain that relays infor from sense receptors- THALMUS
• Why people perceive a tree trunk as the Loch Ness monster-
PERCEPTUAL SET
• When new info. Interferes with old information- RETROACTIVE
INTERFERENCE
• Skill someone is using when viewing a police line up to identify
they suspect- RECOGNITION
• Allows bugs bunny to hop across the screen- STROBOSCOPIC
MOTION
• Lobe of the brain responsible for somato-sensory information-
TEMPORAL
• Photoreceptor cell responsible for color- CONES
• Psychologist known for conditioning Little Albert- WATSON AND
REINER
• Short term memory can store this many chunks- 7 PLUS OR
MINUS 2 (5-9)
• Garcia’s bright –noisy experiment illustrated the importance of
this- GENETIC PREDISPOSITION
• A monocular cue objects at a distance are less textured and
more smooth- TEXTURE GRADIENT
• Completee dark adaption takes this long- 30 MINS
• Endocrine glands secret hormones directly here- BLOODSTREAM
• Ablation, cutting parts of the brain- LEISIONING
• Reinforcement schedule, paycheck every 2 weeks- FIXED
INTERVAL
• Passage of time causes forgetting- DECAY THEORY
• Gland located on underside of brain, responsible for secreting
most of the hormones- PITUITARY
• Portion of long term memory that stores general facts and info-
SEMANTIC
• Tendendcy to perceive objects as stable and unchanging-
CONSTANCY
• Reapperarnce of a response after passage of time-
SPONTANTEOUS RECOVERY
• Unusually sharp and detailed images of something someone has
seen- EIDETIC MEMORY
• Reason why people misrecall “the angry rioter threw the rock at
the window” as “through the window”- SEMANTIC ENCODING
• Theory that color derives from 3 color receptors- YOUNG-
HELMOLTZ OR TRICHROMATIC THEORY
• 3 components that make up a synapse- AXON TERMINALS,
SYNAPTIC GAP, AND DENDRITES
• regulates the amount of light entering the eye- PUPIL
• A visual image held in the sensory register- ICON
• 2 elements associated with each other in classical conditioning-
UNCONDITIONED AND CONDITIONED STIMULUS
• Includes the principle of continuity and closure- GESTALT
PERCEPTION
• Theory that we selective attend to certain auditory stimulus (all
or nothing filter)- BROADBENT SOCIAL THEORY
• FINAL JEOPARDY: I couldn’t remember the question but the
answer was hippocampus and amygdala