AP Psychology Chapter 10 Flashcards
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| 5412135996 | cognition | the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 0 | |
| 5412135997 | concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 1 | |
| 5412137430 | prototype | a mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 5412137431 | algorithm | a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem | 3 | |
| 5412138346 | heuristic | simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgement and solve problems efficiently. | 4 | |
| 5412138347 | insight | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem | 5 | |
| 5412139469 | confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions | 6 | |
| 5412139470 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective | 7 | |
| 5412139471 | mental set | a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, usually a way that has worked in the past | 8 | |
| 5412140807 | functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in their usual functions | 9 | |
| 5412140808 | representativeness heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes. | 10 | |
| 5412143607 | availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in recent memory | 11 | |
| 5412143608 | overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct | 12 | |
| 5412148118 | framing | the way an issue is posed | 13 | |
| 5412148119 | belief bias | the tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning | 14 | |
| 5412148120 | belief perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. | 15 | |
| 5412149446 | language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 16 | |
| 5412149447 | phoneme | in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit | 17 | |
| 5412149448 | morpheme | in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning | 18 | |
| 5412149449 | grammar | in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 19 | |
| 5412151522 | semantics | the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences | 20 | |
| 5412151523 | syntax | the rules for combing words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 21 | |
| 5412151524 | babbling stage | beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development where the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to household language | 22 | |
| 5412153033 | one-word stage | the stage in speech development from age 1 to 2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words | 23 | |
| 5412153034 | two-word stage | beginning at about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | 24 | |
| 5412153035 | telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs, commonly omitting auxiliary words. | 25 | |
| 5412155107 | linguistic determination | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think | 26 |