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34-36 AP Psych

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cognition   all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.  
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concept   a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people  
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prototype   a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories (as when comparing feathered creatures to a prototypical bird, such as a robin.  
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creativity   the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.  
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convergent thinking   narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution.  
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divergent thinking   expands the number of possible problem solutions (creative thinking that diverges in different directions).  
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algorithm   a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier-but also more error prone-use of "heuristics"  
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heuristic   a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error prone that "algorithms"  
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insight   a sudden realization of a problem's solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions.  
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confirmation bias   a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence  
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mental set   a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.  
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intuition   an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. Uses insight most of the time.  
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representativeness heuristic   judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information.  
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availability heuristic   estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.  
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overconfidence   the tendency to be more confident than corrects- to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.  
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belief perseverance   clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.  
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framing   the way in issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.  
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language   our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.  
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phoneme   in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.  
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morpheme   in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)  
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grammar   in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with an understand others.  
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babbling stage   beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language.  
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one-word stage   the stage in speech development, from about age 1 or 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words.  
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two-word stage   beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in single words.  
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telegraphic speech   early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram -"go car"- using mostly nouns and verbs.  
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aphasia   impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impaired speaking) or Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).  
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Broca's area   controls language expression- an area of the frontal lobe, usually caused by left-hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech.  
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Wernicke's area   controls language reception- a brain area involved in a language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe.  
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linguistic determinism   Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.  
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expertise   a well developed base of knowledge- furnishes the ideas, images, and phrases we use as mental building blocks. Wiles' well developed base of knowledge put the needed theorems and methods at his disposal.  
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imaginative thinking skills   These provide the ability to see things in novel ways, to recognize patterns, and to make connections. Having mastered a problem's basic elements, we redefine or explore it in a new way.  
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venturesome personality   This type of personality seeks new experiences, tolerates ambiguity and risk, and perseveres in overcoming obstacles.  
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intrinsic motivation   Driven more by interest, satisfaction, and challenge than by external pressures. Creative people focus less on extrinsic motivators-meeting deadlines, impressing people, or making money- than on the pleasure and stimulation of the work itself.  
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creative environment   this sparks, supports, and refines creative ideas. Many had the emotional intelligence needed to network effectively with peers. Supports innovation, team-building, and communication. Supports contemplation.  
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fixation   an inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective  
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receptive language   their ability to understand what is said to and about them.  
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productive language   their ability to produce words, matures after their receptive language. they recognize noun-verb differences- as shown by their responses to a misplaced noun or verb-earlier that they utter sentences with nouns and verbs.  
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universal grammar   all human languages have nouns, verbs, and adjectives as grammatical building blocks.  
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critical period   a period for mastering certain aspects of language before the language-learning window closes. o-4/5 years old.  
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Noam Chomsky   This person had the universal grammar theory.  
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semantics   the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds.  
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syntax   the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.  
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