AP Psych Thinking & Language Flashcards
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| 6134199624 | confirmation bias | the tendency to search for information that validates our belief, ignoring contradictory evidence |  | 0 |
| 6134208794 | Fixation | the inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective | 1 | |
| 6134210853 | mental set | tendency to use old solutions in order to solve new situations. Approaching a problem with an old mindset, not thinking of fresh, new solutions |  | 2 |
| 6134220308 | Functional fixedness | The inability to think of new ideas, functions for certain objects, away from their intended use. |  | 3 |
| 6134229013 | Representative Heuristic | (kind of like stereotyping.) Drawing conclusions to a question by judging the likelihood of how well they seem to represent a particular prototype. |  | 4 |
| 6134253352 | Availability Heuristic | drawing conclusions based on how fresh information is in our brain, (ignoring other information) |  | 5 |
| 6134263776 | Intuition | an effortless, immediate automatic feeling or thought controlled with conscious reasoning |  | 6 |
| 6134268994 | Language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning |  | 7 |
| 6134273285 | Phonemes | The smallest sound unit; ex(b-a-t, b-i-ke) |  | 8 |
| 6134276477 | Morphemes | The smallest unit of meaning (prefixes and suffixes; anti, un,sub, ed, ing, ly) |  | 9 |
| 6134281694 | 4 months | 4 months, baby babbles many speech sounds. This is nature, so (predisposed to make mma, ppa based on latching form from breastfeeding) | 10 | |
| 6134287700 | 10 months | babbling resembles household language | 11 | |
| 6134288449 | 12 months | one-word stage | 12 | |
| 6134289051 | 24 months | two-word stage, telegraphic speech | 13 | |
| 6134291334 | Receptive Language | babies can associate specific sounds with people, (mom's voice) | 14 | |
| 6134294155 | Productive Language | ability to produce words | 15 | |
| 6134295309 | Babbling | (during the productive stage,) Spontaneously utter a variety of sounds from various languages | 16 | |
| 6134300530 | Broca's Area | disrupts speaking, damage hear prevents people from speaking correctly but makes sense in mind. *IGNORES SYNTAX* can still sing & comprehend speech | 17 | |
| 6134306268 | Wernicke's Area | disrupts understanding, people speak meaningless words, literally talking nonsense | 18 | |
| 6134310522 | Angular Gyrus | reading aloud, receives info from vision and encodes it into auditory form | 19 | |
| 6134322019 | Chomsky's theory of Child language development | children learn languages, words at an extraordinary rate too fast to count. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE- prewired box meaning everyone has the capability to learn every possible human language but it just depends on your environment | 20 | |
| 6134331973 | Telegraphic speech | a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs- Want juice, Car Go, No Doggy, feed me |  | 21 |
| 6134317638 | Linguistic Determinism | theory by Whorf that says language determines the way we think. For example, if we don't have language for the past then we cant think about the past |  | 22 |