Glossary of terms used on this site

Glossaries

Term	Main definition
absentmindedness	Glossaries - Psychology lapses in memory that are caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else
accommodation	Glossaries - Psychology adjustment of a schema by changing a scheme to accommodate new information different from what was already known
acoustic encoding	Glossaries - Psychology input of sounds, words, and music
acquisition	Glossaries - Psychology period of initial learning in classical conditioning in which a human or an animal begins to connect a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus will begin to elicit the conditioned response
action potential	Glossaries - Psychology electrical signal that moves down the neuron’s axon
adolescence	Glossaries - Psychology period of development that begins at puberty and ends at early adulthood
adrenal gland	Glossaries - Psychology sits atop our kidneys and secretes hormones involved in the stress response
adrenarche	Glossaries - Psychology maturing of the adrenal glands
advance directive	Glossaries - Psychology a written legal document that details specific interventions a person wants (see living will)
agonist	Glossaries - Psychology drug that mimics or strengthens the effects of a neurotransmitter
algorithm	Glossaries - Psychology problem-solving strategy characterized by a specific set of instructions
all-or-none	Glossaries - Psychology phenomenon that incoming signal from another neuron is either sufficient or insufficient to reach the threshold of excitation
allele	Glossaries - Psychology specific version of a gene
American Psychological Association (APA)	Glossaries - Psychology professional organization representing psychologists in the United States
amnesia	Glossaries - Psychology loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma

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