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Extra Notes (Not in Textbook) |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 01 September 2005 |
Notetaker: Victor Law
Advanced Placement Psychology
Extra Information (Not in Myers’ Book)
( http://www.ApPsychology.net )
Please No te: These Notes may be revised from time to time.
• Pons: structure in the hindbrain, containing nerve cells that pass signals from one part of the brain to another, thereby
serving as a kind of relay station or bridge (pons, Latin, 'bridge'); also contains a portion of the reticular activating
system and contains nerves serving parts of the head and face
• Yerkes-Dodson law: the inverted U-shaped relationship between performance and arousal: for any task to be
performed there is an optimal level of arousal necessary for best performance; too little or too much arousal interferes
with performance
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