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

Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

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5719738924cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
5719738925Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
5719738926Prototypea standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!)2
5719738927algorithma precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem3
5719738928Heuristica commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem4
5719738929InsightA 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
5719738930Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas6
5719738931Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions7
5719738932fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set8
5719738933Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
5719738934Functional 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
5719738935Representative 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
5719738936Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common12
5719738937Overconfidencetotal certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant13
5719738938Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited14
5719738939Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)15
5719738940Framingformulation of the plans and important details16
5719738941Languagethe mental faculty or power of vocal communication17
5719738942Phoneme(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language18
5719738943Morphememinimal meaningful language unit19
5719738944Grammarstudies of the formation of basic linguistic units20
5719738945Semanticsthe study of language meaning21
5719738946Syntaxthe grammatical arrangement of words in sentences22
5719738947Babbling 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
5719738948One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words24
5719738949Two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements25
5719738950Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words26
5719738951Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think27
5719738952Noam ChomskyUnited States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)28
5719738953B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments29
5719738954Benjamin WhorfConcept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought30

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