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

Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

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7192005727cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
7192005728Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
7192005729Prototypea standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!)2
7192005730algorithma precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem3
7192005731Heuristica commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem4
7192005732InsightA 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
7192005733Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas6
7192005734Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions7
7192005735fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set8
7192005736Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
7192005737Functional 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
7192005738Representative 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
7192005739Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common12
7192005740Overconfidencetotal certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant13
7192005741Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited14
7192005742Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)15
7192005743Framingformulation of the plans and important details16
7192005744Languagethe mental faculty or power of vocal communication17
7192005745Phoneme(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language18
7192005746Morphememinimal meaningful language unit19
7192005747Grammarstudies of the formation of basic linguistic units20
7192005748Semanticsthe study of language meaning21
7192005749Syntaxthe grammatical arrangement of words in sentences22
7192005750Babbling 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
7192005751One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words24
7192005752Two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements25
7192005753Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words26
7192005754Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think27
7192005755Noam ChomskyUnited States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)28
7192005756B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments29
7192005757Benjamin WhorfConcept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought30

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