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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT 34-36 AP
PSYCH EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: insight
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a sudden realization of a problem's solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions.
Question 2: intrinsic motivation
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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.
Question 3: linguistic determinism
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Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
Question 4: heuristic
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a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error prone that "algorithms"
Question 5: mental set
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a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.
Question 6: Wernicke's area
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controls language reception- a brain area involved in a language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe.
Question 7: creativity
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the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
Question 8: two-word stage
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beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in single words.
Question 9: fixation
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an inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective
Question 10: syntax
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the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.
Question 11: venturesome personality
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This type of personality seeks new experiences, tolerates ambiguity and risk, and perseveres in overcoming obstacles.
Question 12: universal grammar
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all human languages have nouns, verbs, and adjectives as grammatical building blocks.
Question 13: convergent thinking
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narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution.
Question 14: divergent thinking
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expands the number of possible problem solutions (creative thinking that diverges in different directions).
Question 15: concept
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a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
Question 16: receptive language
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their ability to understand what is said to and about them.
Question 17: semantics
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the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds.
Question 18: language
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our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.
Question 19: telegraphic speech
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early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram -"go car"- using mostly nouns and verbs.
Question 20: phoneme
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in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.
Question 21: cognition
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all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
Question 22: one-word stage
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the stage in speech development, from about age 1 or 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words.
Question 23: confirmation bias
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a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Question 24: Noam Chomsky
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This person had the universal grammar theory.
Question 25: morpheme
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in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
Question 26: availability heuristic
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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.
Question 27: grammar
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in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with an understand others.
Question 28: critical period
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a period for mastering certain aspects of language before the language-learning window closes. o-4/5 years old.
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