Core concepts in introductory psychology
From Psychology Wiki
Community portal · Tasks to do · News · Help
Clinical · Educational · Ind&Org · Other fields · Professional · Transpersonal · World
Assessment |
Biopsychology |
Comparative |
Cognitive |
Developmental |
Language
Personality |
Philosophy |
Research Methods |
Social |
Statistics
Psychology: Debates · Journals · Psychologists
This is a list of topics identified as core concepts in a broad range of introductory textbooks in psychology examined by Derrick L. Proctor and Alisa M. E. Williams of Andrews University in 2006. [1]
| Contents |
|---|
[edit] A
- Absolute threshold
- Accommodation (perceptual)
- Accommodation (Piaget)
- Acetylcholine
- Action potential
- Activation-synthesis hypothesis
- Adolescence
- Aggression
- Agoraphobia
- Algorithms
- All or none law
- Altruism
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amnesia
- Amygdala
- Anal stage
- Anorexia nervosa
- Anterograde amnesia
- Antidepressant drugs
- Antipsychotic drugs
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Archetypes
- Assimilation
- Association areas
- Attachment
- Attitude
- Attribution
- Autonomic nervous system
- Availability heuristic
- Aversion therapy
- Axon
[edit] B
- Basilar membrane
- Behavior therapy
- Behavioral genetics
- Behaviorism
- Big five
- Binocular cues
- Biofeedback
- Biopsychosocial model
- Bipolar disorder
- Blind spot
- Bottom up processing
- Bulimia nervosa
[edit] C
- Cannon Bard theory
- Case study
- Cell body
- Central nervous system
- Cerebellum
- Cerebral cortex
- Chromosomes
- Chunking
- Circadian rhythms
- Classical conditioning
- Client centered therapy
- Cochlea
- Cognition
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive map
- Cognitive psychology
- Cognitive therapy
- Collective unconscious
- Concept
- Concrete operational stage
- Conditioned response
- Conditioned stimulus
- Cones
- Confirmation bias
- Conformity
- Consciousness
- Conservation
- Continuous reinforcement
- Control group
- Convergence
- Conversion disorders
- Cornea
- Corpus callus
- Correlation coefficient
- Correlation research
- Creativity
- Critical period
- Cross sectional study
- Crystallized intelligence
- CT (computed topography) scans
[edit] D
- Dark adaptation
- Decay theory
- Declarative memory
- Defense mechanisms
- Deindividuation
- Delusions
- Dendrites
- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
- Dependent variable
- Depressants
- Descriptive statistics
- Developmental psychology
- Difference threshold
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Discrimination (social behavior)
- Discriminative stimulus
- Displacement (defense mechanism)
- Dissociative amnesia
- Dissociative disorders
- Dissociative fugue
- Dissociative identity disorder
- Divergent thinking
- Double blind study
- Drive
- DSM-IV
[edit] E
- Eardrum
- Ego
- Egocentrism
- Elaborative rehearsal
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Embryo
- Emotion
- Emotional intelligence
- Encoding
- Encoding specificity principle
- Endocrine system
- Endorphins
- Episodic memory
- Evolutionary psychology
- Experiment
- Experimental group
- Explicit memory
- Extinction (classical conditioning)
- Extinction (operant conditioning)
- Extrinsic motivation
[edit] F
- Facial feedback hypothesis
- Factor analysis
- Family therapy
- Feature detector
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fetus
- Fixation (Freudian)
- Fixed interval schedule
- Fixed ratio schedule
- Flashbulb memories
- Fluid intelligence
- Forebrain
- Formal operational stage
- Fovea
- Fraternal twins
- Free association
- Frequency theory
- Frontal lobes
- Frustration aggression hypothesis
- Functional fixedness
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Functionalism
- Fundamental attribution error
[edit] G
- G factor
- Gate control theory
- Gender
- Gender identity
- Gender roles
- Gene
- General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Genital stage
- Genotype
- Gestalt psychology
- Glial cells
- Group polarization
- Groupthink
[edit] H
- Habituation
- Hallucinations
- Hallucinogens
- Health psychology
- Heritability
- Heuristic
- Hierarchy of needs
- Hindbrain
- Hippocampus
- Homeostasis
- Hormones
- Hue
- Humanistic psychology
- Hypnosis
- Hypochondriasis
- Hypothalamus
- Hypothesis
[edit] I
- Id
- Identical twins
- Implicit memory
- Imprinting
- Incentive
- Independent variable
- Inferential statistics
- Informed consent
- Insight (learning)
- Insomnia
- Instinct
- Intelligence
- Intelligence quotient (IQ)
- Interferon
- Intrinsic motivation
- Introspection
- Iris
[edit] J
[edit] K
[edit] L
- Language
- Latency stage
- Latent content
- Latent learning
- Law of effect
- Learned helplessness
- Learning
- Lens
- Limbic system
- Locus of control
- Long-term memory (LTM)
- Long-term potentiation (LTP)
- Longitudinal study
[edit] M
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Maintenance rehearsal
- Major depressive disorder
- Mania
- Manifest content
- Maturation
- Mean
- Median
- Meditation
- Medulla
- Memory
- Menarche
- Menopause
- Mental age
- Mental retardation
- Mental set
- Meta analysis
- Midbrain
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
- Mnemonic devices
- Mode
- Monocular cues
- Mood disorders
- Morpheme
- Motivation
- Motor cortex
- Motor neurons
- Myelin sheath
[edit] N
- Narcolepsy
- Natural selection
- Naturalistic observation
- Need for achievement
- Negative reinforcement
- Neurons
- Neurotransmitters
- Norm (testing)
- Normal distribution
[edit] O
- Obedience
- Object permanence
- Observational learning
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Occipital lobes
- Oedipus complex
- Olfaction
- Operant conditioning
- Operational definition
- Opiates
- Opponent process theory (color)
- Optic nerve
- Oral stage
[edit] P
- Panic disorder
- Parasympathetic nervous system
- Parietal lobes
- Partial reinforcement
- Perception
- Perceptual constancy
- Peripheral nervous system
- Personality
- Personality disorders
- Phallic stage
- Phenotype
- Pheromones
- Phobia
- Phoneme
- Physical dependence
- Pitch
- Pituitary gland
- Place theory
- Placebo
- Placebo effect
- Pleasure principle
- Polygraph
- Pons
- Population
- Positive reinforcement
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Prejudice
- Preoperational stage
- Primacy effect
- Primary reinforcers
- Priming
- Proactive interference
- Procedural memory
- Projection
- Projective tests
- Prototype
- Psychoactive drugs
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodynamic theories
- Psychology
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Psychophysics
- Psychosexual stages
- Psychosurgery
- Psychotherapy
- Puberty
- Punishment
- Pupil
[edit] R
- Random assignment
- Range Semantics
- Rational emotive behavior therapy
- Rationalization
- Reaction formation
- Reality principle
- Recall
- Receptors
- Reciprocal determinism
- Recognition
- Reflex Shaping
- Reinforcement
- Reliability
- REM sleep
- Replication
- Representativeness heuristic
- Repression
- Resistance
- Resting potential
- Reticular formation
- Retina
- Retinal disparity
- Retrieval
- Retroactive interference
- Retrograde amnesia
- Rods
- Rorschach Inkblot Test
[edit] S
- Sample
- Schedule of reinforcement
- Schemas
- Schizophrenia
- Scientific method
- Secondary reinforcers
- Self-actualization
- Self-concept
- Self-efficacy
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Self-serving bias
- Semantic memory
- Sensation
- Sensory adaptation
- Sensory memory
- Sensorimotor stage
- Sensory neurons
- Serial position effect
- Set point (weight)
- Sexual orientation
- Shape constancy
- Signal detection theory
- Size constancy
- Sleep apnea
- Social facilitation
- Social loafing
- Social norms
- Social phobia
- Social psychology
- Social support
- Somatic nervous system
- Somatoform disorders
- Specific phobia
- Spinal cord
- Spontaneous recovery
- Standard deviation
- Standardization
- State dependent memory
- Stereotype
- Stimulants
- Stimulus discrimination
- Stimulus generalization
- Storage
- Stress
- Stressors
- Structuralism
- Subliminal perception
- Superego
- Survey
- Sympathetic nervous system
- Synapse
- Syntax
- Systematic desensitization
[edit] T
- Taste buds
- Telegraphic speech
- Temperament
- Temporal lobes
- Dermatogens
- Thalamus
- Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
- Theory
- Token economy
- Tolerance
- Top down processing
- Trait
- Transduction
- Transference
- Triarchic theory of intelligence
- Trichromatic theory
- Two factor theory of emotion
- Type A behavior
- Type B behavior
