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

Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

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8571047597cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
8571047598Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
8571047599Prototypea standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!)2
8571047600algorithma precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem3
8571047601Heuristica commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem4
8571047602InsightA 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
8571047603Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas6
8571047604Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions7
8571047605fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set8
8571047606Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
8571047607Functional 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
8571047608Representative 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
8571047609Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common12
8571047610Overconfidencetotal certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant13
8571047611Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited14
8571047612Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)15
8571047613Framingformulation of the plans and important details16
8571047614Languagethe mental faculty or power of vocal communication17
8571047615Phoneme(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language18
8571047616Morphememinimal meaningful language unit19
8571047617Grammarstudies of the formation of basic linguistic units20
8571047618Semanticsthe study of language meaning21
8571047619Syntaxthe grammatical arrangement of words in sentences22
8571047620Babbling 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
8571047621One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words24
8571047622Two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements25
8571047623Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words26
8571047624Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think27
8571047625Noam ChomskyUnited States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)28
8571047626B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments29
8571047627Benjamin WhorfConcept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought30

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