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🤔Cognitive Psychology
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475 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Cognitive Psychology exam

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A

Aaron T. Beck
Ability Models
ACT-R
Action Potentials
Ambiguous figure-ground relationships
Ames Room
Amos Tversky
Analog Representation
Analogical reasoning
Analogical Thinking
Anne Treisman
Anterior cingulate cortex
Anterograde Amnesia
Appraisal theories of emotion
Appraisal Theory
Apraxia of Speech
Aptitude tests
Arcuate fasciculus
Articulatory loop
Articulatory rehearsal process
Association Cortices
Associative memory
Associative stage
Atkinson-Shiffrin Model
Attentional Blink
Attentional bottleneck
Attentional load
Attentional refreshing
Attentional resources
Attentional Spotlight
Attributional processes
Auditory Cortex
Auditory processing disorder
Auditory Transduction
Automaticity
Availability Cascade

B

Balanced bilingualism
Basic-level categories
Beck's Cognitive Model
Behavioral Measures
Behavioral psychology
Bernard Baars
Bernstein's Degrees of Freedom
Beta band
Between-Subjects Design
Biased competition model
Binet-Simon Scale
Biological theory of emotions
Blindsight
Body awareness
Bonferroni Correction
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
Bottleneck Model
Bottom-Up Attention
Bottom-Up Processing
Bounded rationality
Bounded rationality model
Brain wave patterns
Broaden-and-build theory
Broca's Aphasia

C

Calibration training
Catastrophizing
Categorical perception
Central executive
Child-directed speech
Choice Architectures
Choking under pressure
Chunking theory
Cingulo-opercular network
Clarion
Clinical interviews
Cognitive Access
Cognitive Deficits
Cognitive Distortion
Cognitive Efficiency