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AP Psych Unit 4B - Thinking and Language Flashcards

Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

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9543099687cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
9543099688Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
9543099689Prototypea standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!)2
9543099690algorithma precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem3
9543099691Heuristica commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem4
9543099692InsightA cognitive form of learning involving the mental rearragnment or restructuring of the elements in a problem to achieve an understanding or the problem and arrive at a solution5
9543099693Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas6
9543099694Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions7
9543099695fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set8
9543099696Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
9543099697Functional fixednessthe tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving (Is a shoe just a shoe?)10
9543099698Representative heuristicjudging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevent information11
9543099699Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common12
9543099700Overconfidencetotal certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant13
9543099701Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited14
9543099702Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)15
9543099703Framingformulation of the plans and important details16
9543099704Languagethe mental faculty or power of vocal communication17
9543099705Phoneme(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language18
9543099706Morphememinimal meaningful language unit19
9543099707Grammarstudies of the formation of basic linguistic units20
9543099708Semanticsthe study of language meaning21
9543099709Syntaxthe grammatical arrangement of words in sentences22
9543099710Babbling Stagebeginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household lanuage.23
9543099711One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words24
9543099712Two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements25
9543099713Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words26
9543099714Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think27
9543099715Noam ChomskyUnited States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)28
9543099716B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments29
9543099717Benjamin WhorfConcept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought30

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