Thinking, Language, and Intelligence (AP Psychology)

The mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension. These processes include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging and problem-solving.

• Belief
• Cognition 
• Semantics
• Thoughts

A mental grouping of similar things, events, and people that is used to remember and understand what things are, what they mean, and what categories or groups they belong to.

• Prototype
• Algorithm
• Concept
• Phonemes

The BEST example or cognitive representation of something within a certain category

• Prototype
• Insight
• Semantics
• Framing Effect 

A set of instructions for solving a problem or completing a process, often used in math. 

• Prototype
• Algorithm
• Syntax
• Semantics

A rule-of-thumb strategy for making more efficient decisions and solving problems. 

• Algorithm
• Morphemes 
• Cognition 
• Heuristic 

The sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem

• Insight
• Concept
• Prototype
• Syntax

A tendency for a person to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions

• Semantics
• Belief Perseverance 
• Confirmation Bias 
• Telegraphic speech

What is B.F. Skinner best known for developing? 

• Framing Effect
• Cognitive Psychology 
• Behavioral Psychology 
• Operant Conditioning 

The tendency to be very sure of a fact and later finding that the objective reality was different

• Belief Perseverance
• Belief Bias
• Over Confidence
• Framing Effect

An example of cognitive bias, in which people react to a particular choice in different ways depending on how it is presented (e.g. as a loss or as a gain)

• Framing Effect
• Semantics
• Telegraphic speech
• Babbling