| acetycholine | (ACh); neurotransmitter that triggers muscle contraction. (p.62) |
| alpha waves | the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state. (p.272) |
| aphasia | impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding). (p.82) |
| aptitude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance. (p.432) |
| assimilation | interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas. (p.143) |
| associative learning | learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (operant conditioning.) (p.309) |
| hierarchy of needs | Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active |
| motivation | the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal |
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