🧠 AP Psykologi
Nøkkelbegreper og konsepter for AP Psykologi-læreplanen.
⬆️Bottom-Up Processing
Analysis that begins with sensory receptors.
🧠Brainstem
The oldest part of the brain, responsible for basic life functions.
🍽️Bulimia Nervosa
An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating followed by vomiting or fasting.
⚡Cannon-Bard Theory
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion.
🧠Central Nervous System
The brain and spinal cord.
🤸Cerebellum
The "little brain" coordinating balance and movement.
🧠Cerebral Cortex
The outer layer of the brain responsible for higher functions.
📦Chunking
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.
🕰️Circadian Rhythm
The biological clock governing sleep and wake cycles.
🔔Classical Conditioning
Learning by associating two stimuli.
🐚Cochlea
A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear.
🔊Cochlear Implant
A device that converts sounds into electrical signals.
💭Cognition
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
🗺️Cognitive Map
A mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
🎨Color Constancy
Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color.
💡Concept
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
💧Conditioned Response
A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus.
🔔Conditioned Stimulus
An originally neutral stimulus that triggers a conditioned response.
🔇Conduction Hearing Loss
Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system.
🌈Cones
Retinal receptors detecting fine detail and color.
🔍Confirmation Bias
A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions.
🌪️Confounding Variable
An outside variable that may affect the results.
💭Consciousness
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
📋Content Validity
The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.
♾️Continuous Reinforcement
Reinforcing a response every time it occurs.
🧪Control Group
The group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment.
🧘Coping
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.
❤️Coronary Heart Disease
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle.
🌉Corpus Callosum
The band of nerve fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres.
📈Correlation
A statistical measure of the relationship between two variables.