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💬AP Seminar
Key Terms

121 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP Seminar exam

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1984
26th Amendment

A

Argument
Argument structure
Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Attention restoration theory
Attribution
Audience Engagement
Author's Argument

B

Baby Boomers
Bias
Big Idea 4: Synthesize Ideas
Big Ideas
Biodiversity loss
Biomimicry

C

Central argument
Central Theme
Claims
Claims Connection to Evidence
Coherence
Coherent
Commentary
Context
Counterargument
Counterclaim
Credibility

D

Deductive reasoning
Digital divide
Duty in a calling

E

End of Course (EoC) Exam
Environmental lens
Essential Questions (EQs)
Establish Argument
Ethical lens
Evaluating Sources and Evidence
Evidence

F

Fallacy
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Fast fashion
Faulty generalization
Fight-or-flight response
Food desert

G

Geothermal energy
Green Revolution
Group Facilitation

H

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

I

Implications of Arguments
Individual Multi-media Presentation (IMP)
Individual Research Report
Individual Research Report (IRR)
Individual Written Argument
Individual Written Argument (IWA)
Inductive reasoning
Inflation Reduction Act
Informed consent
Inquiry
Internet of Things (IoT) devices

L

Large language model (LLM)
Line of Reasoning

M

McDonaldization of America
Microplastic pollution
Mother Creator
Multiple Perspectives

O

Optimistic bias
Oral Defense
Ostrom's core design principles

P

Performance Task 1 (PT 1)
Perspective
Perspectives
PISA
Political and Historical Lens
Privacy paradox
Protestant work ethic
Pueblo Migration Stories

Q

Qualifier