5947914692 | Cognition | the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | 0 | |
5947914693 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. | 1 | |
5947914694 | Prototype | a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides quick/easy methods for sorting things. | 2 | |
5947914695 | Algorithm | a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. | 3 | |
5947914696 | Heuristic | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently. | 4 | |
5947914697 | Insight | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions. | 5 | |
5947914698 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence. | 6 | |
5947914699 | Fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mindset. | 7 | |
5947914700 | Mental set | a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past. | 8 | |
5947914701 | Functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving. | 9 | |
5947914702 | representative heuristic | judging the likely-hood of things based on how well they represent, or match, particularly prototypes. (Truck driver and librarian) | 10 | |
5947914703 | Availability heuristic | estimating the likely-hood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind we presume such events are common. | 11 | |
5947914704 | Overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct; to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements | 12 | |
5947914705 | Belief perserverence | clinging to ones initial concepts after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. | 13 | |
5947914706 | Intuition | an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. | 14 | |
5947914707 | Framing | the way an issue is posed; can significantly affect decisions and judgments. | 15 | |
5947914708 | Phonemes | in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. | 16 | |
5947914709 | Morphemes | in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be part of a word. | 17 | |
5947914710 | Grammar | in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand each other. | 18 | |
5947914711 | Semantics | the set of rules by which we derive the MEANING from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also the study of MEANING. | 19 | |
5947914712 | Syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language. | 20 | |
5947914713 | Babbling Stage | beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language. | 21 | |
5947914714 | One word stage | the stage in speech development, from age 1 to 2 , during with a child speaks mostly in single words. | 22 | |
5947914715 | Two word stage | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly 2 word statements. | 23 | |
5947914716 | Telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs. | 24 | |
5947914717 | Aphasia | impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area or to Wernicke's area. | 25 | |
5947914718 | Broca's Area | controls language expression; an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere of the brain, that directs the muscle movements involving speech. (Controls speech muscles via the motor cortex) | 26 | |
5947914719 | Wernicke's Area | controls language reception; a brain area involving in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe. (Interprets auditory code) | 27 |
AP Psychology Thinking and Language Flashcards
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