AP Psychology Unit 2 Key Terms
Term/Name |
Selective attention |
Inattentional blindness |
Change blindness |
Perceptual set |
gestalt |
figure-ground |
grouping |
Depth perception |
Visual cliff |
Binocular cue |
convergence |
Retinal disparity |
Monocular cue |
Stroboscopic movement |
Phi phenomenon |
Autokinetic effect |
Perceptual constancy |
Color constancy |
Perceptual adaptation |
cognition |
metacognition |
concept |
prototype |
Jean Piaget |
schema |
assimilation |
accommodation |
creativity |
Convergent thinking |
Divergent thinking |
Robert Sternberg |
Executive functions |
algorithm |
heuristic |
insight |
Wolfgang Kohler |
Confirmation bias |
fixation |
Mental set |
intuition |
Amos Tversky |
Daniel Kahneman |
Representativeness heuristic |
Availability heuristic |
overconfidence |
Belief perseverance |
framing |
nudge |
memory |
recall |
recognition |
relearning |
Hermann Ebbinghaus |
encoding |
storage |
retrieval |
Parallel processing |
Richard Atkinson |
Richard Shiffrin |
Sensory memory |
Short-term memory |
Long-term memory |
Working memory |
Central executive |
Phonological loop |
Visuospatial sketchpad |
neurogenesis |
Eric Kandel |
Long-term potentiation (LTP) |
Explicitly memory |
Effortful processing |
Automatic processing |
Implicit memory |
Iconic memory |
Echoic memory |
George A. Miller |
chunking |
mnemonics |
Spacing effect |
Testing effect |
Shallow processing |
Deep processing |
Semantic memory |
Episodic memory |
hippocampus |
Memory consolidation |
Flashbulb memory |
priming |
Encoding specificity principle |
Mood-congruent memory |
Serial position effect |
interleaving |
Anterograde amnesia |
Retrograde amnesia |
Proactive interference |
Retroactive interference |
repression |
reconsolidation |
Elizabeth Loftus |
Misinformation effect |
Source amnesia |
Deja vu |
intelligence |
Charles Spearman |
General intelligence (g) |
Factor analysis |
L. L. Thurstone |
Fluid intelligence (Gf) |
Crystallized intelligence (Gc) |
Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory |
Howard Gardner |
Savant syndrome |
grit |
Emotional intelligence |
Intelligence test |
Achievement test |
Aptitude test |
Francis Galton |
Alfred Binet |
Mental age |
Lewis Terman |
Stanford-Binet |
Intelligence quotient (IQ) |
David Wechsler |
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) |
psychometrics |
standardization |
Normal curve |
Flynn effect |
reliability |
validity |
Content validity |
Construct validity |
Predictive validity |
Cross-sectional study |
Longitudinal study |
cohort |
Carol Dweck |
Growth mindset |
Fixed mindset |
Steven Pinker |
Stereotype threat |