AP Psychology Cognition & Language Flashcards
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| 8943189010 | Cognition | the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 0 | |
| 8943189011 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 1 | |
| 8943193294 | Prototype | a mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 8943193295 | Algorithm | a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem | 3 | |
| 8943196308 | Heuristic | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently | 4 | |
| 8943256903 | Insight | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem | 5 | |
| 8943260158 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | 6 | |
| 8954185917 | Sternberg's Five | -Expertise -Imaginative thinking skills -A venturesome personality -Intrinsic motivation -A creative environment | 7 | |
| 8954206863 | Confirmation Bias | a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence | 8 | |
| 8954224714 | Fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental state | 9 | |
| 8954251645 | Mental Set | a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past | 10 | |
| 8954302903 | Functional Fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions | 11 | |
| 8954313115 | Representativeness Heuristic | when we experience something new we based it off our prototype | 12 | |
| 8954350651 | Availability Heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory | 13 | |
| 8954353304 | Overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct--to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgments | 14 | |
| 8954409582 | Belief Perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they are formed has been discredited | 15 | |
| 8954409583 | Intuition | Gut feeling | 16 | |
| 8954412104 | Framing | the way an issue in posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments | 17 | |
| 8954463715 | Language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to meaning | 18 | |
| 8954463716 | Phoneme | in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit | 19 | |
| 8954467545 | Morpheme | in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word (such as a prefix) | 20 | |
| 8954467546 | Grammar | a set of language rules | 21 | |
| 8954470397 | Semantics | the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning | 22 | |
| 8954470398 | Syntax | the rules for combining words into a grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 23 | |
| 8954474326 | Skinner | Environment | 24 | |
| 8954477225 | Chomsky | Inborn Universal Grammar | 25 | |
| 8954481469 | Linguistic Determinism | Whorf's hypothesis language determines the way we think | 26 | |
| 8954481470 | Implicit Memory | retention independent of conscious recollection (Percedureral Memory) | 27 |