PS102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Standard Deviation, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Smart People
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Can be a word, but doesn"t have to be. Morphemes: the smallest unit of meaning in language. Syntax: a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged. Overregularization: when grammar rules are wrongly generalized to irregular cases. Metalinguistic awareness: growing appreciation of ambiguities, and word play. Con doesn"t explain creativity or errors in speech. Cons acquisition not completed as early as they thought. Diversity of language and grammar hard to explain. Experience develops schemas and they help to solve specialized problems. Initial state set of operations goal state. *problem solving depends on your preferences, experience, knowledge and the situation. Novices rely on general problem-solving methods, use working memory. Experts large number of schemas to guide them. Heuristic: general problem-solving strategies that we apply to certain situations. Mental set: stay w/ one approach to a situation. Functional fixedness: fixed in perception of typical use of object.
