AP PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITION AND LANGUAGE Flashcards

8355089302	Metacognition	thinking about thinking	0
8355089303	Cognition	all the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating	1
8355095039	Concepts	a mental grouping of similar objects events ideas or people	2
8355095040	Defintions	some Concepts fit into a group because of their definition	3
8355095041	Hierarchies	breaking things down from broad to specific subordinate basic subordinate	4
8355101009	Prototypes	a mental image or best example of a category	5
8355101010	Schemas	and organize metal framework about a particular topic event object idea setting or group of people	6
8355108095	Trial and error	just trying any method to solve an answer	7
8355108096	means-end analysis	breaking a problem into sub goals in order to reach the ultimate goal	8
8355114719	Algorithm	a logical step by step procedure that if I filed correctly will eventually solve a specific problem	9
8355114720	Heuristic	a general rule of thumb or shortcut that is used to reduce the number of possible solutions to a problem	10
8355120333	insight		11
8355120334	fixation	heading a preoccupation with something not being able to stop thinking of it	12
8355126308	Mental set	the tendency to continue using belief systems and problem-solving strategies that have worked in the past even though it may not be working now	13
8355134248	Functional Fixedness	the tendency to think of an object as functioning only in its usual way or customary way as a result individuals often do not see unusual or Innovative uses of familiar objects	14
8355134249	Availiability heuristic	likelihood of an event based on the readily available person experiences or new reports	15
8355142349	Representative Heuristic	the likelihood of an event based on how well it matches a typical example	16
8355142350	Anchoring Effect	the tendency to be influenced by a reference point	17
8355146534	Framing	posing a question or word in a phrase in such a way to persuade someone thoughts	18
8355146535	Bias	heading pre-existing positions or events people Ect.	19
8355146536	Confirmation Bias	a preference of information that confirms pre-existing positions or beliefs while ignoring or discounted contradictory evidence	20
8355174130	Belief Peserverence	holding onto a belief even after it's been discredited	21
8355174131	Hindsight Bias	Also known as the new it all day long affect the inclination to see events that have already occurred as being more predictable than they were before they took place	22
8355179042	Overconfiedence bias	the tendency to be more confident than correct	23
8355185646	Exaggerated Fear	the being overly fearful of something to the point of a phobia availability heuristic plays a part in this	24
8355185647	Brainstorm	coming up with new ideas	25
8355185648	Creativity	the ability to think about a problem or idea in a new and unusual way come up with unconventional solutions to problems	26
8355192225	Divergent Thinking	a type of thinking and which problem solvers devise a number of possible alternative approaches to a problem in multiple Solutions it involves taking risks	27
8355201190	Convergent Thinking	using algorithms to solve problems there's only one answer doesn't seem to see things from various prospects	28
8355201191	Inductive Reasoning	reasoning from specific to the general	29
8355210183	Deductive Reasoning	reasoning from the general to the specific	30
8355217108	Language	the way we communicate meaning to ourselves and others	31
8355217109	Phonemes	the smallest distinctive unit of sound in a language	32
8355223034	Morphemes	the smallest units of meaning in a language	33
8355223035	Grammar	the system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and understand others	34
8355223036	Semantics	set of rules by which we derive meaning from the morphemes words and sentences	35
8355234690	Overregularization	occurs when children apply grammatical rule to widely and therefore create incorrect forms	36
8355234691	syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences	37
8355240262	Receptive LAnguage	the ability to understand language wernick's area in the brain allows you to understand language	38
8355246010	Productive LAnguage	the ability to produce language Broca's area in the brain allows you to speak	39
8355246011	Babbling	Universal noises made by babies around the age of 4 months this is not the household language this is that is revealed at 10 months	40
8355256001	Holophrase	1 word phrases around the age of one year	41
8355256002	Telegraphic Speech	two word phrases baby make around 24 months to years	42
8355268381	Critical Period	if children are not exposed to language before a certain age they will be unable to acquire language	43
8355268382	Universal Grammar	all human languages had the same grammatical building block such as nouns verbs subjects and objects	44
8355276788	Language Aquisition Device	and they and they speech and they speech in and they speech and Navy	45
8355281138	Surface Structure	just learning ABCs just the letters and layout of words like shallow processing	46
8355288300	Deep Structure	combining words to make meetings like deep processing	47
8355292933	Linguistic Determinism		48
8355292934	B.F. Skinner		49
8355298394	Noam Chomsky		50
8355298395	Benjamin Whorf		51
8355303317	Sultan		52
8355303318	KoKo		53
8355314432	Washoe		54
8355315808	Kanzi		55