AP Psychology Unit 2 Cognition (updated for 24/25 SY)

Bottom-up processing

Top-down processing

Schema

Perceptual Set

Gestalt psychology

Closure

Figure and ground

proximity

similarity

attention

selective attention

cocktail party effect

inattentional blindness

Change blindness

binocular depth cues

retinal disparity

convergence

monocular depth cues

relative clarity

relative size

texture gradient

linear perspective

interposition

apparent movement

prototypes

assimilation

accommodation

algorithms

heuristics

representativeness heuristic

availability heuristic

mental set

priming

framing

gambler's fallacy

sunk-cost fallacy

executive functions

creativity

divergent thinking

convergent thinking

functional fixedness

storage

retrieval

Explicit memory

Episodic Memory

Semantic memory

Implicit memory

Procedural memory

Prospective memory

Long-term potentiation

Working memory model

Primary memory system

working memory

Central executive

phonolgical loop

Visuospatial sketchpad

Long-term memory

Multi-store model

Sensory memory

Iconic memory

Echoic memory

Automatic processing

Effortful processing

Encoding

Levels of processing model

Shallow encoding

Deep encoding

Structural, phonemic, and semantic

Mnemonic devices

Method of loci

Chunking

Categories

Hierarchies

Spacing effect

Memory consolidation

Massed practice

Distributed Practice

Serial position effect

Primacy effect

Recency effect

short-term memory

Maintenance rehearsal

Elaborative rehearsal

memory retention

Autobiographical memory

Retrograde amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

Alzheimer's disease

Infantile amnesia

Recognition

Retrieval cues

Context-dependent memory

Mood-congruent memory

State-dependent memory

testing effect

metacognition

Forgetting curve

Encoding failure

Proactive interference

Retroactive interference