AP Psych Language Development Flashcards
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| 13717106598 | Cognition | Refers to all the mental activities associated with processing, understanding and remembering and communicating | 0 | |
| 13717106599 | Concepts | Mental groupings of similar objects, events and people | 1 | |
| 13717106600 | Prototypes | A mental image or best examples of a category | 2 | |
| 13717106601 | Algorithm | Step by step procedure that guarantees a solution | 3 | |
| 13717106602 | Heuristics | Simple strategy that allows us to make judgements and solve problems with efficiency but more error prone | 4 | |
| 13717106603 | Insight | A sudden realization of the solution to a problem | 5 | |
| 13717106604 | Confirmation biased | Tendency to search for evidence to support your preconceptions | 6 | |
| 13717106605 | Fixation | Our inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective | 7 | |
| 13717106606 | Mental set | Our tendency to repeat a solution that has worked in the past | 8 | |
| 13717106607 | Representative heuristic | Judging the likeliness of things in terms of how well they match the prototype | 9 | |
| 13717106608 | Availability heuristic | Estimating the likeliness of events based on their availability in memory | 10 | |
| 13717106609 | Over confidence | We over estimate the accuracy of our beliefs, judgements, abilities ect | 11 | |
| 13717106610 | Belief perserverance | Clinging to our beliefs and conceptions no matter the evidence against it | 12 | |
| 13717106611 | Phonemes | The smallest distinctive sound unit | 13 | |
| 13717106612 | Morpheme | The smallest unit of language that carries meaning | 14 | |
| 13717106613 | Semantics | Set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words and sentences | 15 | |
| 13717106614 | Syntax | The rules by which we use to order words into sentences | 16 | |
| 13717106615 | Babbling stage | (3-4months) the initial talking stage of infants | 17 | |
| 13717106616 | One word stage | (1-2 years) says literally one word | 18 | |
| 13717106617 | Two word stage | (18 months) mostly nouns and verbs | 19 | |
| 13717106618 | Skinner on word development | We learn language through associations imitation and reinforcement | 20 | |
| 13717106619 | Noam Chomsky on word development | Innate language acquisition device is hard wired | 21 | |
| 13717106620 | Whorf's hypothesis | Language determines the way we think, language shapes our ideas | 22 |