🧠AP Psychology
Key Terms
1573 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP Psychology exam
Most-studied AP Psychology key terms
The AP Psychology terms students look up most, with a definition for each.
- Ethical Guideline
- Operational Definitions
- Case Study
- Statistical Significance
- Evolutionary Perspective
- Percentile Rank
- Standard Deviation
- Robert Peck's psychological tasks
- Consolidation Theory
- Overconfidence
- Pituitary Gland
- Correlation Coefficient
- reflex arc
- Confirmation Bias
- Turiel's social domain theory
- Resting Potential
- generalizability
- Frequency Theory
- Social Media Exposure
- Correlational Studies
- Twin Studies
- Cultural Norms
- Volley Principle
- Confederate
- Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- Hindsight Bias
- Confidentiality
- Generalization
- Informed Consent
- Weber's law
- Psychoactive Drugs
- Random Assignment
- Cerebral Cortex
- Activation-Synthesis theory
- Parietal Lobe
- Relative Size
- Lewin’s Motivation Conflict Theory
- Behavioral Perspective
- Placebo Effect
- volley theory
- Glial Cells
- all-or-none principle
- texture gradient
- Accommodation
- Acetylcholine
- Hormone
- Hypothalamus
- Dopamine
- Wernicke's Area
- Operational Definition
- Biological Perspective
- Corpus Callosum
- adoption studies
- Opponent Process Theory
- Frontal Lobes
- Deception
- Blind Sight
- Brain Plasticity
- Monocular Cues
- Debriefing
- Neurons
- Restoration Theory
- brain stem
- Somatosensory Cortex
- Retina
- Executive Function
- monocular depth cues
- Oxytocin
- Memory Consolidation
- Research Method
- Trichromatic Theory
- Ganglion Cells
- sound localization
- Consciousness
- Autonomic Nervous System
- Cognitive Perspective
- Norepinephrine
- Priming
- Sensory Adaptation
Key Terms by Unit
1.1 Interaction of Heredity and Environment
1.2 Overview of the Nervous System
1.3 The Neuron and Neural Firing
1.4 The Brain
1.5 Sleep
1.6 Sensation
2.1 Perception
2.2 Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making
2.3 Introduction to Memory
2.4 Encoding Memories
2.5 Storing Memories
2.6 Retrieving Memories
2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges
2.8 Intelligence and Achievement
3.1 Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology
3.2 Physical Development Across the Lifespan
3.3 Gender and Sexual Orientation
3.4 Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan
3.5 Communication and Language Development
3.7 Classical Conditioning
3.8 Operant Conditioning
3.9 Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning
4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception
4.2 Attitude Formation and Attitude Change
4.3 Psychology of Social Situations
4.4 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of Personality
4.5 Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality
4.6 Motivation
4.7 Emotion
5.1 Introduction to Health Psychology
5.2 Positive Psychology
5.3 Explaining and Classifying Psychological Disorders
5.4 Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders
5.5 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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