AP Psych vocab

Habit Loop

Retrieval

Algorithm

Stimulus

Recall Heuristic

Chameleon Effect

Recognition

Representativeness Heuristic

Growth Mindset / Fixed Mindset

Relearning

Availability Heuristic

Distanced self talk

Retrieval Cues

Mental Set

Ironic process theory

Priming

Conformity

Encoding Specificity Principle

Holt Cold Empathy Gap

Context-Dependent Memory

Framing

Nudge

Subjective Well Being

Mood-Congruent Memory

Gambler's Fallacy

Impact bias

Self Compassion

State-Dependent Memory

Testing Effect

Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Gratitiude

Meta Cognition

Functional Fixedness

Mindfulness

Interleaving

Insight

Confirmation Bias

Hedonic adaptation

The Forgetting Curve

Fixation

Flow

Encoding Failure

Intuition

Psychological Immune System

Proactive Interference Overconfidence

Social Comparison

Retroactive Interference

Belief Perseverance

Feel Good Do Good

Emotional Contagion

Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

Ego

Language

Social Benchmark

Repression

Phonemes

Morphemes

Social Proof

Reconsolidation

Semantics

Self report

Misinformation Effect

Naturalistic Observation

Source Amnesia

Grammar

Syntax

Experiment

Deja Vu

Universal Grammar (UG)

Statistical Analysis

Constructive Memory

Critical thinking

Memory Consolidation

Cooing

Hindsight bias

Babbling

Confirmation Bias

Imagination Inflation

One-Word Stage

Overconfidence

Two-Word Stage

Telegraphic Speech

Peer reviewers

Overgeneralization

Falsifiable

Wernicke's Area

Operational Definition

Linguistic Determinism

Replication

Linguistic Relativity

Case Study

Descriptive Statistics

Meta-Analysis Histogram

Survey Measure of Central Tendency

Social desirability bias

Mode

Self-report bias

Mean

Experimenter Bias

Median

Population

Percentile Rank

Sample

Skewed Distribution

Sampling Bias Measures of Variation

Random Sample

Range

Convenience Sampling

Standard Deviation

Representative Sample

Normal Curve

Experimental Methodology

Inferential Statistics

Non-Experimental Methodology

Meta-analysis

Correlation

Statistical Significance

Correlation Coefficient

Effect Size

Variable

Perception

Scatterplot

Bottom-Up Processing

Illusory Correlation

Top-Down Processing

Regression 

Toward the Mean

Schemas

Experiment

Perceptual Set

Experimental Group

Attention

Control Group Selective Attention

Independent Variable(s)

Cocktail Party Effect

Dependent Variable(s)

Inattentional Blindness

Habit Loop

Retrieval

Algorithm

Stimulus

Chameleon Effect

Recognition

Growth Mindset / Fixed Mindset

Relearning

Availability Heuristic

Distanced self talk

Retrieval Cues

Mental Set

Ironic process theory

Priming

Conformity

Encoding Specificity Principle

Holt Cold Empathy Gap

Context-Dependent Memory

Framing

Nudge

Subjective Well Being Mood-Congruent Memory

Gambler's Fallacy

Impact bias

Self Compassion

State-Dependent Memory

Testing Effect

Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Gratitiude

Meta Cognition

Functional Fixedness

Mindfulness

Interleaving

Insight

Confirmation Bias


Hedonic adaptation

The Forgetting Curve Fixation

Flow

Encoding Failure

Intuition

Psychological Immune System

Proactive Interference

Overconfidence

Social Comparison

Retroactive Interference

Belief Perseverance

Feel Good Do Good

Emotional Contagion

Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

Ego

Language

Social Benchmark

Repression

Phonemes

Morphemes

Social Proof

Reconsolidation

Semantics

Self report

Misinformation Effect

Naturalistic Observation

Source Amnesia

Grammar

Syntax

Experiment

Deja Vu

Universal Grammar (UG)

Statistical Analysis

Constructive Memory

Critical thinking

Memory Consolidation

Cooing

Hindsight bias

Babbling

Confirmation Bias

Imagination Inflation

One-Word Stage

Overconfidence

Two-Word Stage

Telegraphic Speech

Peer reviewers

Overgeneralization

Placebo Effect

Confounding Variable

Experimenter Bias

Validity

Quantitative Research

Qualitative Research

Likert Scales

Institutional Review

Informed Consent

Informed Assent

Protect from Harm

Confidentiality

Research Confederates

Debriefing

Psychological Disorder

Dysfunction

Distress

Stigma

American Psychiatric Association

Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

World Health Organization

International Classification of Mental Disorders (ICD)

Eclectic Approach

Behavioral Perspective

Maladaptive Behaviors

Psychodynamic Perspective

Humanistic Perspective

Cognitive Perspective

Maladaptive Thoughts

Evolutionary Perspectives

Sociocultural Perspective

Maladaptive Relationships

Sheeti

Grouping Proximity

Similarity

Cognition

Metacognition

Concept

Prototype

Schema

Assimilation

Accommodation

Executive Functions

Creativity

Divergent Thinking

Convergent Thinking

Biological Perspective

Biopsychosocial Model

Medical Model

Diathesis-Stress Model

Diathesis

Stress

Positive Psychology

Well-Being

Resilience

Subjective Well-Being

Feel-Good, Do Good-Phenomenon

Adaptation-Level Phenomenon

Relative Deprivation

Gratitude

Signature Strengths

Virtues

Character Strengths

Wisdom

Courage

Humanity

Justice

Temperance

Transcendence

Broaden-and-Build Theory (Also in Unit 4)

Aerobic Exercise

Mindfulness Meditation

Universal Emotions

Anger

Disgust

Happiness

Sadness

Display Rules

Emotion

Facial-Feedback Hypothesis

Behavior-Feedback Effect

Broaden-and-Build Theory (Also in Unit 5)

Polygraph

Habituation

Associative Learning

Stimulus

Response behavior

Operant behavior

cognitive learning

Classical conditioning

behaviorism

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

Unconditioned Response (UCR)

Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

Conditioned Response (CR)

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

Acquisition

Higher Order Conditioning

Extinction

Spontaneous Recovery

Generalization

Discrimination

Preparedness

Operant Conditioning

Law of Effect

Operant Chamber

Reinforcement

Shaping

Discriminative Stimulus

Positive Reinforcement

Negative Reinforcement

Primary Reinforcer

Conditioned Reinforcer

Reinforcement Schedule

Continuous reinforcement schedule

partial (intermittent) reinforcement schedule

fixed ratio schedule

variable ratio schedule

fixed interval schedule

variable interval schedule

punishment

instinctive drift

Emotion

James Lange Theory

Cannon Bard Theory

Threat Response

Cognitive Appraisal Theory

Response Generalization

Habituation

Associative Learning

Stimulus

Response behavior

Operant behavior

Cognitive learning

Classical conditioning

behaviorism

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

Unconditioned Response (UCR)

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

Acquisition

Higher Order Conditioning

Extinction

Spontaneous Recovery

Generalization

Discrimination

Preparedness

Operant Conditioning

Law of Effect

Operant Chamber

Reinforcement

Shaping

Discriminative Stimulus

Positive Reinforcement

Negative Reinforcement

Primary Reinforcer

Conditioned Reinforcer

Reinforcement Schedule

Continuous reinforcement schedule 

partial (intermittent) reinforcement schedule 

fixed ratio schedule 

variable ratio schedule 

fixed interval schedule 

variable interval schedule 

punishment 

instinctive drift

Emotion

James Lange Theory

Cannon Bard Theory

Threat Response

Cognitive Appraisal Theory

Response Generalization

Aversion

Avoidance

Escape

Anxiety (Skinner's Definition)

Health Psychology

Psychoneuroimmunology

Stress

Hypertension

Immune Suppression

Eustress

Distress

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (also in Unit 3)

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Alarm

Resistance

Fight-Flight-Freeze Response

Exhaustion

Coronary Heart Disease

Tend-and-Befriend Theory

Catharsis

Coping

Problem-Focused Coping

Emotion-Focused Coping

Meditation

Personal Control

Learned Helplessness (Also in Unit 3)

External Locus of Control (Also in Unit 4)

Internal Locus of Control (Also in Unit 4)

Self-Control

Defense Mechanisms

Repression

Supression

Rationalization (Plain)

Rationalization (Sour Grapes)

Rationalization (Sweet Lemons)

Intellectualization

Projection

Displacement

Substitution

Sublimation

Identification

Fantasy

Regression

Nomadism

Compensation

Overcompensation

Undoing

Denial

Procrastional

Withdrawal

Negativism

Compartmentaliation Reaction-Formation

Biological Psychology

Biopsychosocial Approach

Levels of Analysis

Brain Plasticity (neuroplasticity)

EEG

MEG MRI

CT

PET

MRI

Sheet1

Lesions

Brain Stem

Hindbrain

Midbrain

Forbrain

Medulla Oblongata

Reticular Activating System (Reticular Formation)

Cerebellum

Cerebral Cortex

Limbic System

Thalamus

Hypothalamus

Pituitary Gland

Hippocampus

Amygdala

Corpus Callosum

Split Brain

Broca's Area

Wernicke's Area

Cortex Specialization

Contralateral Hemispheric Organization

Aphasia

Occipital Lobe

Temporal Lobe

Parietal Lobe

Association Areas

Somatosensory Cortex

Frontal Lobe


Episodic Memory

Semantic Memory

Implicit Memory

Procedural Memory

Prospective Memory

Neurogenesis

Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)

Working Memory

Visuospatial Sketchpad

Long-Term Memory

Multi-Store Model

Sensory Memory

Central Executive

Phonological Loop

Iconic Memory

Echoic Memory

Shallow Processing

Deep Processing

Automatic Processing

Effortful Processing

Encoding

Storing

Retrieval

Structural Processing

Phonemic Processing

Semantic Processing

Encode

Mnemonic Devices

Method of Loci

Chunking

Categories

Hierarchies

The Spacing Effect

Massed Practice

Distributed Practice

Serial Position Effect

Primacy Effect

Recency Effect