22.
syntax: the rules for combining words into grammatically
sensible sentences in a given language
23. babbling stage: at about 4 months, the stage of speech
development in which the infant spontaneously utters various
sounds at first unrelated to the household language.
24. one word stage: the stage in speech development from about
age 1 to 2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words.
25. two word stage: beginning about age 2 the stage in speech
development during which a child speaks mostly two word
statements
26. telegraphic speech: early speech stage in which a child speaks
like a telegram"go car"using mostly nouns and verbs and
omitting auxiliary words.
27. linguistic determinism: Whorf's hypothesis that language
determines the way we think
1. cognition: The mental activities associated with thinking,
knowing, remembering, and communicating.
2. concept: a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or
people
3. prototype: a mental image or best example of a category.
Matching new items to the prototype provides a quick and easy
method for including items in a category (as when comparing
feathered creatures to a prototypical bird, such as a robin).
4. 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
5. heuristic: a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to
make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier
but also more error-prone than algorithms
6. insight: a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a
problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions
7. confirmation bias: a tendency to search for information that
supports one's preconceptions
8. fixation: the inability to see a problem from a new perspective;
an impediment to problem solving
9. mental set: a tendency to approach a problem in a particular
way, often a way that has been successful in the past
10. functional fixedness: the tendency to think of things only in
terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem
solving.
11. representativeness heuristic: judging the likelihood of
things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match,
particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant
information
12. availability heuristic: estimating the likelihood of events
based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily
to mind, we presume such events are common
13. overconfidence: the tendency to be more confident than correct
to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgments.
14. framing: the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can
significantly affect decisions and judgments
15. belief bias: the tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort
logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions
seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid
16. belief perseverance: clinging to one's initial conceptions after
the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
17. language: our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we
combine them to communicate meaning
18. phoneme: in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
19. morpheme: in a language, the smallest unit that carries
meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
20. grammar: in a language, a system of rules that enables us to
communicate with and understand others
21. semantics: the set of rules by which we derive meaning from
morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the
study of meaning
AP psychology: Chapter 10 VOCAB
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