FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 7B

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 7B

AP PSYCH EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Functional Fixedness

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The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.

Question 2: Language

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Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.

Question 3: Babbling Stage

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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.

Question 4: 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 5: 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 than algorithms.

Question 6: Cognition

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The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

Question 7: One-word Stage

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The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words.

Question 8: Algorithm

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A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier -- but also much more error-prone -- use of heuristics.

Question 9: Morpheme

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In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word (such as a prefix).

Question 10: Insight

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A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.

Question 11: 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 12: Syntax

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The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.

Question 13: Framing

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The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.

Question 14: Intuition

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An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.

Question 15: Belief Perserverance

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Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.

Question 16: Creativity

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The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.

Question 17: Two-word Stage

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Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements.

Question 18: Representativeness Heuristic

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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.

Question 19: Fixation

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The inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set.

Question 20: Confirmation Bias

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A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and ignore or distort contradictory evidence.

Question 21: Concept

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A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

Question 22: Linguistic Determinism

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Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.

Question 23: Prototype

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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).

Question 24: Semantics

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The rules for combining rules into grammatically sensible sentences in any given language.

Question 25: 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 26: Overconfidence

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The tendency to be more confident that correct -- to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.

Question 27: Grammar

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In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.

Question 28: Phoneme

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In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.