8355089302 | Metacognition | thinking about thinking | 0 | |
8355089303 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating | 1 | |
8355095039 | Concepts | a mental grouping of similar objects events ideas or people | 2 | |
8355095040 | Defintions | some Concepts fit into a group because of their definition | 3 | |
8355095041 | Hierarchies | breaking things down from broad to specific subordinate basic subordinate | 4 | |
8355101009 | Prototypes | a mental image or best example of a category | 5 | |
8355101010 | Schemas | and organize metal framework about a particular topic event object idea setting or group of people | 6 | |
8355108095 | Trial and error | just trying any method to solve an answer | 7 | |
8355108096 | means-end analysis | breaking a problem into sub goals in order to reach the ultimate goal | 8 | |
8355114719 | Algorithm | a logical step by step procedure that if I filed correctly will eventually solve a specific problem | 9 | |
8355114720 | Heuristic | a general rule of thumb or shortcut that is used to reduce the number of possible solutions to a problem | 10 | |
8355120333 | insight | 11 | ||
8355120334 | fixation | heading a preoccupation with something not being able to stop thinking of it | 12 | |
8355126308 | Mental set | the tendency to continue using belief systems and problem-solving strategies that have worked in the past even though it may not be working now | 13 | |
8355134248 | Functional Fixedness | the tendency to think of an object as functioning only in its usual way or customary way as a result individuals often do not see unusual or Innovative uses of familiar objects | 14 | |
8355134249 | Availiability heuristic | likelihood of an event based on the readily available person experiences or new reports | 15 | |
8355142349 | Representative Heuristic | the likelihood of an event based on how well it matches a typical example | 16 | |
8355142350 | Anchoring Effect | the tendency to be influenced by a reference point | 17 | |
8355146534 | Framing | posing a question or word in a phrase in such a way to persuade someone thoughts | 18 | |
8355146535 | Bias | heading pre-existing positions or events people Ect. | 19 | |
8355146536 | Confirmation Bias | a preference of information that confirms pre-existing positions or beliefs while ignoring or discounted contradictory evidence | 20 | |
8355174130 | Belief Peserverence | holding onto a belief even after it's been discredited | 21 | |
8355174131 | Hindsight Bias | Also known as the new it all day long affect the inclination to see events that have already occurred as being more predictable than they were before they took place | 22 | |
8355179042 | Overconfiedence bias | the tendency to be more confident than correct | 23 | |
8355185646 | Exaggerated Fear | the being overly fearful of something to the point of a phobia availability heuristic plays a part in this | 24 | |
8355185647 | Brainstorm | coming up with new ideas | 25 | |
8355185648 | Creativity | the ability to think about a problem or idea in a new and unusual way come up with unconventional solutions to problems | 26 | |
8355192225 | Divergent Thinking | a type of thinking and which problem solvers devise a number of possible alternative approaches to a problem in multiple Solutions it involves taking risks | 27 | |
8355201190 | Convergent Thinking | using algorithms to solve problems there's only one answer doesn't seem to see things from various prospects | 28 | |
8355201191 | Inductive Reasoning | reasoning from specific to the general | 29 | |
8355210183 | Deductive Reasoning | reasoning from the general to the specific | 30 | |
8355217108 | Language | the way we communicate meaning to ourselves and others | 31 | |
8355217109 | Phonemes | the smallest distinctive unit of sound in a language | 32 | |
8355223034 | Morphemes | the smallest units of meaning in a language | 33 | |
8355223035 | Grammar | the system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 34 | |
8355223036 | Semantics | set of rules by which we derive meaning from the morphemes words and sentences | 35 | |
8355234690 | Overregularization | occurs when children apply grammatical rule to widely and therefore create incorrect forms | 36 | |
8355234691 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences | 37 | |
8355240262 | Receptive LAnguage | the ability to understand language wernick's area in the brain allows you to understand language | 38 | |
8355246010 | Productive LAnguage | the ability to produce language Broca's area in the brain allows you to speak | 39 | |
8355246011 | Babbling | Universal noises made by babies around the age of 4 months this is not the household language this is that is revealed at 10 months | 40 | |
8355256001 | Holophrase | 1 word phrases around the age of one year | 41 | |
8355256002 | Telegraphic Speech | two word phrases baby make around 24 months to years | 42 | |
8355268381 | Critical Period | if children are not exposed to language before a certain age they will be unable to acquire language | 43 | |
8355268382 | Universal Grammar | all human languages had the same grammatical building block such as nouns verbs subjects and objects | 44 | |
8355276788 | Language Aquisition Device | and they and they speech and they speech in and they speech and Navy | 45 | |
8355281138 | Surface Structure | just learning ABCs just the letters and layout of words like shallow processing | 46 | |
8355288300 | Deep Structure | combining words to make meetings like deep processing | 47 | |
8355292933 | Linguistic Determinism | 48 | ||
8355292934 | B.F. Skinner | 49 | ||
8355298394 | Noam Chomsky | 50 | ||
8355298395 | Benjamin Whorf | 51 | ||
8355303317 | Sultan | 52 | ||
8355303318 | KoKo | 53 | ||
8355314432 | Washoe | 54 | ||
8355315808 | Kanzi | 55 |
AP PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITION AND LANGUAGE Flashcards
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