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AP Psych Review: Thinking & Language

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Unit of speech that has meaning
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The most common example of any category
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_____ aphasia is losing the ability to physically produce speech
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Mental processes involved in memory, thinking, and language
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Suddenly realizing the solution to your problems; the “aha!” moment
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_____ heuristics is making a quick judgment based on mental prototypes
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Smallest unit of sound in any language; there are 44 in English language
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A(n) _____ heuristic is when things that come to mind quickly are considered significant or common, even if they aren’t
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Linguistic _____ is the theory that language influences what we are capable of thinking about; we can’t imagine something if we don’t have a word to describe it
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The ability to come up with new ideas and new solutions to problems; highly correlated with intelligence
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Problem solving method; educated guess; faster than algorithms, but more error prone
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_____ thinking is the ability to come up with multiple solutions to problems; outside the box thinking
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_____ thinking is using available information to narrow it down to one answer; used in logical thinking
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_____ aphasia is losing the ability to understand language and form coherent language
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_____ perseverance is clinging to initial beliefs, even when you learn something new; opposite of accommodation
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Step-by-step problem solving method; more time consuming, but always accurate
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Mental grouping of similar things
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Our tendency to think we can do things better/ faster/ more easily than we really can
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_____ bias is the tendency to interpret new information so it fits in with existing beliefs
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Mental framework for understanding the world; how we expect the world to function; allows to prepare for and plan for the future because we can visualize it