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 |
| adolescence | Glossaries - Psychology period of development that begins at puberty and ends at early adulthood |
| adrenal gland | Glossaries - Psychology |
| 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 |