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Myers for AP Psychology Unit 7B: THINKING & LANGUAGE Flashcards

Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

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13855007906cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
13855007907Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
13855007908Prototypea standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!)2
13855007909algorithma precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem3
13855007910Heuristica commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem4
13855007911InsightA 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
13855007912Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas6
13855007913Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions7
13855007914fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set8
13855007915Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
13855007916Functional 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
13855007917Representative 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
13855007918Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common12
13855007919Overconfidencetotal certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant13
13855007920Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited14
13855007921Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)15
13855007922Framingformulation of the plans and important details16
13855007923Languagethe mental faculty or power of vocal communication17
13855007924Phoneme(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language18
13855007925Morphememinimal meaningful language unit19
13855007926Grammarstudies of the formation of basic linguistic units20
13855007927Semanticsthe study of language meaning21
13855007928Syntaxthe grammatical arrangement of words in sentences22
13855007929Babbling 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
13855007930One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words24
13855007931Two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements25
13855007932Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words26
13855007933Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think27
13855007934Noam ChomskyUnited States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)28
13855007935B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments29
13855007936Benjamin WhorfConcept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought30

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