2.2 AP Psych Review

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Cognition

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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

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Metacognition

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Cognition about our cognition; keeping track of and evaluating our mental processes.

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Concept

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

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Prototype

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A mental image or best example of a category.

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Assimilation

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Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

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Accommodation

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Adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.

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Algorithm

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A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.

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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.

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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.

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Availability Heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common.