Ap psych thinking and language Flashcards
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3456843915 | Overlearning | Continuing to practice after memorizing information makes it more resistant to forgetting | 0 | |
3456843916 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering | 1 | |
3456843917 | Metacognition | Thinking about how you think | 2 | |
3456843918 | Trial and error | Trying possible solutions and discarding those that fail to solve the problem | 3 | |
3456843919 | Algorithm | Problem -solving strategy that involves a step by step procedure that guarantees a solution to certain types of problems | 4 | |
3456843920 | Heuristic | A problem-solving strategy used as a mental shortcut to quickly simplify and solve a problem,but that does not guarantee a correct solution | 5 | |
3456843921 | Insight learning | The sudden appearance(often creative) or awareness of a solution to a problem | 6 | |
3456843922 | Deductive reasoning | Reasoning from the general to the specific | 7 | |
3456843923 | Inductive reasoning | Reasoning from the specific to the general | 8 | |
3456843924 | Mental sets | Barriers to problem solving that occur when we apply only methods that have worked in the past rather than trying new or different strategies | 9 | |
3456843925 | Functional fixedness | When we are not able to recognize novel uses for an object because we are so familiar with its common use | 10 | |
3456843926 | Cognitive illusion | Systematic way of thinking that is responsible for an error in judgement | 11 | |
3456843927 | Availability heuristic | A tendency to estimate the probability of certain events in terms of how readily they come to mind | 12 | |
3456843928 | Representatives heuristic | Tendency to judge the likelihood of things according to how they relate to a prototype | 13 | |
3456843929 | Framing | The way an issue is stated. can significantly affect decisions and judgements | 14 | |
3456843930 | Anchoring effect | Tendency to be influenced by a suggested reference point,pulling our response toward that point | 15 | |
3456843931 | Confirmation bias | Tendency to notice or seek information that already supports our preconceptions and ignore information that refutes our ideas | 16 | |
3456843932 | Belief perseverance | The tendency to hold onto a belief after the basis for the belief is discredited | 17 | |
3456843933 | Belief bias | The tendency for our précis ting beliefs to distort logical reasoning,making illogical conclusions seem valid or logical conclusions seem invalid | 18 | |
3456843934 | Hindsight bias | The tendency to falsely report,after the event, that we correctly predicted the outcome of the event | 19 | |
3456843935 | Overconfidence bias | The tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments | 20 | |
3456843936 | Creativity | The ability to think about a problem or idea in new and unusual ways to come up with unconventional solutions | 21 | |
3456843937 | Incubation | Putting aside a problem temporarily; allows the problem solver to look at the problem from a different perspective | 22 | |
3456843938 | Brainstorming | Generating lots of possible solutions to a problem without making prior evaluative judgements | 23 | |
3456843939 | Divergent thinking | Thinking that produces many alternatives or ideas | 24 | |
3456843940 | Convergent | Conventional thinking directed toward a single correct solution | 25 | |
3456843941 | Language | Communication system based on words and grammar;spoken, written, or gens three words and the way they are combined to communicate meaning from person to person and to transmit civilizations accumulated knowledge | 26 | |
3456843942 | Phonemes | Smallest units of sound in spoken language | 27 | |
3456843943 | Morphemes | The smallest unit of language that has meaning | 28 | |
3456843944 | Grammar | A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 29 | |
3456843945 | Syntax | Rules that are used to order words into grammatically sensible sentences | 30 | |
3456843946 | Semantics | A set of rules we used to derive meaning from morphemes,words, and sentences | 31 | |
3456843947 | Babbling | An infants spontaneous production of speech sounds; begins around 4 months old | 32 | |
3456843948 | Holophrase | One-word utterances that convey meaning; characteristics of a 1 year old | 33 | |
3456843949 | Telegraphic speech | Meaningful two-word sentences, usually a noun and a verb, and usually in the correct order uttered by a 2 year old | 34 | |
3456843950 | Overgeneralization | Application or grammatical rules without making appropriate exceptions(I goed to the store) | 35 | |
3456843951 | Behavioral perspective | Language is developed by imitating sounds we hear to create words | 36 | |
3456843952 | Nativist perspective | Idea that the human brain has an innate capacity for acquiring language possibly during a critical period of time after birth, and that children are born with a universal sense of grammar(Noam Chomsky) | 37 | |
3456843953 | Social interactivist perspective | Babies are biologically equipped for learning language, which may be activated or constrained by experience | 38 | |
3456843954 | Linguistic relativity hypothesis | Our language guides and determined our thinking(Whorf). It is more accurate to say that language influences thought | 39 |