AP Psychology Thinking and Language

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Which type of problem solving technique is methodical, logical, and will always lead to a correct answer if there is one? Options: Heuristic, Insight, Algorithm, Convergent Thinking, Divergent Thinking

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Algorithm

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Which type of problem solving strategy allows us to make an estimate on the likelihood of events based on how much that event matches a prototype?

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Representativeness Heuristic

Front

What is our tendency to think we know or can perform better or more accurately than we really can?

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Overconfidence

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What is the smallest form of language that can carry meaning?

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Morpheme

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Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates

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divergent thinking.

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A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of

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an algorithm.

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In trying to solve a potentially complicated problem quickly, we are most likely to rely on

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heuristics.

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Despite overwhelming and highly publicized evidence that Senator McEwan was guilty of serious political corruption and misconduct, many who had supported her in past elections remained convinced of her political integrity. Their reaction best illustrates

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belief perseverance.

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The rock musician was hit with a rotten egg while performing his latest hit song. The fact that you can recognize two different meanings for the word “hit” in the preceding sentence demonstrates the importance of

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semantics.

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Children begin to demonstrate that they know how to put words in a sensible order during the ________ stage.

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two-word