Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 5988732670 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |  | 0 |
| 5988732671 | concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. |  | 1 |
| 5988732672 | prototype | a mental image or best example of a category. |  | 2 |
| 5988735046 | creativity | the ability to produce valuable ideas | 3 | |
| 5988732673 | algorithm | step-by-step procedures that guarantee a solution |  | 4 |
| 5988732674 | heuristic | simpler thinking strategies |  | 5 |
| 5988732675 | insight | sudden realization of a probken's solution |  | 6 |
| 5988732676 | behaviorist theory | argues that humans learn language through trial/error and gradually learn more effective ways to speak to get what they want |  | 7 |
| 5988732677 | confirmation bias | searching for information that supports our preconceptions and ignore other beliefs |  | 8 |
| 5988747075 | convergent thinking | one solution to a problem | 9 | |
| 5988748124 | divergent thinking | more than one solution | 10 | |
| 5988732679 | mental set | approaching a problem in one particular way, a way that has been successful in the past. |  | 11 |
| 5988732681 | representativeness heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent |  | 12 |
| 5988732682 | availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory |  | 13 |
| 5988732684 | belief perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. |  | 14 |
| 5988768736 | Overconfidence | overestimating the accuracy of our thoughts and judgments | 15 | |
| 5988732686 | framing | the way an issue is posed |  | 16 |
| 5988732687 | language | spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. |  | 17 |
| 5988732688 | phoneme | the smallest distinctive sound unit. |  | 18 |
| 5988732689 | morpheme | the smallest unit that carries meaning |  | 19 |
| 5988732690 | grammar | in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. |  | 20 |
| 5988732691 | semantics | the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language |  | 21 |
| 5988752223 | Sternberg's 5 components of creativity | expertise, imaginative thinking, intrinsic motivation, skills, a venturesome personality, and a creative environment | 22 | |
| 5988759210 | intuition | automatic feelings and thoughts | 23 | |
| 5988732692 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language. |  | 24 |
| 5988732693 | babbling stage | babies spontaneously uttering a variety of words |  | 25 |
| 5988732694 | one-word stage | the stage in which children speak mainly in single words | | 26 |
| 5988732695 | two-word stage | they start uttering two word sentences | | 27 |
| 5988732696 | telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram |  | 28 |
| 5988732697 | linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. |  | 29 |
| 5988774730 | universal grammar | Noam Chomsky's linguistic theory; argues that the ability to learn language is nature not nurture | 30 | |
| 5988782748 | critical period of language development | time when baby can learn a language without it being influenced by native language | 31 | |
| 5988784741 | aphasia | loss of ability to understand or express speech | 32 | |
| 5988787084 | Broca's area | controls language and expression | 33 | |
| 5988788772 | Wernicke's area | controls language reception | 34 | |
| 5988793227 | Bilingual advantage | being able to switch between tasks efficiently | 35 |
