Language AP Psych Flashcards

3693805176	Algorithm	A step-by-step procedure that leads to a definite solution.	0
3693818226	Availability heuristic	Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common	1
3693819826	Babbling stage	the stage of speech development in which an infant utters various sounds at first unrelated to the house hold language	2
3693822316	Belief perseverance	clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited	3
3693823867	Concept	a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people	4
3693825582	Confirmation bias	a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence	5
3693827462	Creativity	the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas	6
3693830529	Fixation	According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.	7
3693836238	Framing	Ability of the media to influence public perception of issues by constructing the issue or discussion of a subject in a certain way	8
3693837973	Functional fixedness	The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.	9
3693839943	Grammar	in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others	10
3693843019	Heuristic	A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms.	11
3693844262	Insight	a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem	12
3693845997	Intuition	an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning	13
3693847467	Language	A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.	14
3693849898	Linguistic determinism	Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think	15
3693849899	Mental set	a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past	16
3693851080	Morpheme	the smallest unit that carries meaning	17
3693854215	One-word phase	early period of language development when children use single-word phrases to convey an entire thought	18
3693863382	Overconfidence	the tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements	19
3693863383	Phoneme	smallest unit of sound	20
3693867012	Prototype	an original instance that serves as a model on which later stages are based or judged- "normal"	21
3693876061	Representativeness heuristic	Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information.	22
3693876062	Semantics	Meaning of words and sentences	23
3693877421	Syntax	Sentence structure	24
3693880414	Telegraphic speech	early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram	25
3693882348	Two-word stage	beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements	26