🧠 Psicologia AP
Termini e concetti chiave per il curriculum di Psicologia AP.
🖼️Figure-Ground
The organization of the visual field into objects and their surroundings.
🔒Fixation
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective.
⏰Fixed-Interval Schedule
Reinforcing the first response after a fixed time.
🔢Fixed-Ratio Schedule
Reinforcing after a set number of responses.
📸Flashbulb Memory
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment.
🧲fMRI
Functional MRI, measures brain activity by blood flow.
🎯Fovea
The central focus point of the retina.
🖼️Framing
The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.
📶Frequency
The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time.
📶Frequency Theory
The theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches pitch.
🧠Frontal Lobe
Involved in planning, judgment, and motor control.
🔧Functional Fixedness
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions.
🚫GABA
The main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain.
🚪Gate-Control Theory
The theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" for pain.
🔄General Adaptation Syndrome
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases.
🧠General Intelligence
A general factor that underlies specific mental abilities.
🔀Generalization
The tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus.
🧩Gestalt
An organized whole; the school of thought emphasizing our tendency to integrate pieces of information.
🍬Glucose
The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues.
➕Glutamate
The main excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain.
📏Grammar
A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.
💪Grit
Passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals.
🧩Grouping
The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.
🌀Hallucinogens
Drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images.
🏥Health Psychology
A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
🧬Heritability
The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes.
💡Heuristic
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments efficiently.
🔺Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs.
🧠Hippocampus
Processes memory and learning.
⚖️Homeostasis
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state.