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AP Psychology Unit 10 Language and Cognition Flashcards

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9959605160Cognitionthe mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
9959605161Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.1
9959605162Prototypea mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides quick/easy methods for sorting things.2
9959605163Algorithma methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.3
9959605164Heuristica simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently.4
9959605165Insighta sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.5
9959605166Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.6
9959605167Fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mindset.7
9959605168Mental seta tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.8
9959605169Functional fixednessthe tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.9
9959605170representative heuristicjudging the likely-hood of things based on how well they represent, or match, particularly prototypes. (Truck driver and librarian)10
9959605171Availability heuristicestimating the likely-hood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind we presume such events are common.11
9959605172Overconfidencethe tendency to be more confident than correct; to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements12
9959605173Belief perserverenceclinging to ones initial concepts after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.13
9959605174Intuitionan effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.14
9959605175Framingthe way an issue is posed; can significantly affect decisions and judgments.15
9959605176Phonemesin language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.16
9959605177Morphemesin language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be part of a word.17
9959605178Grammarin a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand each other.18
9959605179Semanticsthe set of rules by which we derive the MEANING from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also the study of MEANING.19
9959605180Syntaxthe rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.20
9959605181Babbling Stagebeginning 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
9959605182One word stagethe stage in speech development, from age 1 to 2 , during with a child speaks mostly in single words.22
9959605183Two word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly 2 word statements.23
9959605184Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs.24
9959605185Aphasiaimpairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area or to Wernicke's area.25
9959605186Broca's Areacontrols 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
9959605187Wernicke's Areacontrols language reception; a brain area involving in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe. (Interprets auditory code)27

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