Izzy's AP Psych Ch 10
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| 12504637 | cognition | The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | |
| 12504638 | concept | A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | |
| 12504639 | prototype | A mental image or best example of a category - matching new items to the prototype provided a quick and easy method for including items in a category | |
| 12504640 | algorithm | A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem | |
| 12504641 | heuristic | A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently | |
| 12504642 | insight | A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem | |
| 12504643 | confirmation bias | A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions | |
| 12504644 | fixation | The inability to see a problem from a new perspective | |
| 12504645 | mental set | A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially a way that has been successful in the past | |
| 12504646 | functional fixedness | The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions | |
| 12504647 | representative heuristic | Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes | |
| 12504648 | availability heuristic | Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory | |
| 12504649 | overconfidence | The tendency to be more confident than correct - to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgments | |
| 12504650 | framing | The way an issue is posed | |
| 12504651 | belief bias | The tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid | |
| 12504652 | belief perserverence | Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | |
| 12504653 | artificial intelligence | The science of designing and programming computer systems to do intelligent things and to simulate human thought processes | |
| 12504654 | computer neural networks | Computer circuits that mimic the brain's interconnected neural cells | |
| 12504655 | language | Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | |
| 12504656 | phoneme | In a spoken language, the smallest distictive sound unit | |
| 12504657 | morpheme | In a language, the smallest unit that carries a meaning (may be a word or part of a word) | |
| 12504658 | grammar | In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | |
| 12504659 | semantics | The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language | |
| 12504660 | syntax | The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | |
| 12504661 | babbling stage | Beginning at 3 to 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language | |
| 12504662 | one-word stage | The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words | |
| 12504663 | two-word stage | Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | |
| 12504664 | telegraphic speech | Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting "auxiliary" words | |
| 12504665 | linguistic determination | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |