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AP Psych Jeopardy Review Midterm 1

This document provides a review for an AP Psychology midterm exam, listing key terms related to various topics in psychology. It includes definitions of concepts like negative reinforcement, the thalamus, and perceptual set. It also lists important theorists like Watson and concepts like the trichromatic theory of color vision. Finally, it provides the terms hippocampus and amygdala as the answer to the final Jeopardy question, though without stating the question.

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AP Psych Jeopardy Review Midterm 1

This document provides a review for an AP Psychology midterm exam, listing key terms related to various topics in psychology. It includes definitions of concepts like negative reinforcement, the thalamus, and perceptual set. It also lists important theorists like Watson and concepts like the trichromatic theory of color vision. Finally, it provides the terms hippocampus and amygdala as the answer to the final Jeopardy question, though without stating the question.

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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

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