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RV Myers Psychology for AP - Unit 7B

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194132834cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
194132835Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
194132836Prototypea standard or typical example
194132837algorithma precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
194132838Heuristica commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
194132839InsightA 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 solution
194132840Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions
194132841fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set
194132842Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
194132843Functional fixednessthe tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving
194132844Representative 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 information
194132845Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common
194132846Overconfidencetotal certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant
194132847Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
194132848Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
194132849Framingformulation of the plans and important details
194132850Languagethe mental faculty or power of vocal communication
194132851Phoneme(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
194132852Morphememinimal meaningful language unit
194132853Grammarstudies of the formation of basic linguistic units
194132854Semanticsthe study of language meaning
194132855Syntaxthe grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
194132856One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words
194132857two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements
194132858telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words
194132859linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think
194132860Noam ChomskyUnited States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)
194132863B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments
194132865Benjamin WhorfConcept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought
194625573Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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