🧠 Psicologia AP
Termini e concetti chiave per il curriculum di Psicologia AP.
🧪Hormone
A chemical messenger secreted by endocrine glands.
🎨Hue
The dimension of color determined by wavelength.
🌀Hypnosis
A social interaction in which one person suggests certain perceptions.
🌡️Hypothalamus
Controls hunger, thirst, temperature, and sexual behavior.
👁️Iconic Memory
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli.
🖼️Imagery
Mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing.
🚶Implicit Memory
Retention independent of conscious recollection.
🧪Implicit Memory Test
A memory test that assesses retention without conscious recall.
🎁Incentive
A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
🎛️Independent Variable
The variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
👂Inner Ear
The innermost part of the ear containing the cochlea.
💡Insight
A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.
🌙Insomnia
Persistent difficulty falling or staying asleep.
🐾Instinct
A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.
🧠Intellectual Disability
A condition of limited mental ability indicated by an intelligence score below 70.
🧠Intelligence
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
🔢Intelligence Quotient
Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100.
💡Intensity
The amount of energy in a light or sound wave.
❤️Intrinsic Motivation
A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake.
✨Intuition
An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought.
👁️Iris
A ring of muscle tissue that controls the pupil's size.
💓James-Lange Theory
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
🦵Kinesthesis
The system for sensing body position and movement.
🗣️Language
Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.
💤Latent Learning
Learning that is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
🏆Law of Effect
Behaviors followed by favorable consequences are more likely to recur.
📚Learning
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.
🔍Lens
The transparent structure behind the pupil that focuses light.
🔪Lesion
Tissue destruction used to study brain function.
❤️Limbic System
The emotional brain, including the amygdala and hippocampus.