Download AP Psychology Ch 7-8 – Cognition Workbook

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AP Psychology – VII. Cognition (8-10%)
Chapters 7 and 8
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NOTE to STUDENTS: This packet overlaps into the next unit, but represents the content
from “VII - Cognition” on the College Board’s outline for the AP Psychology Exam.
VII. Cognition, 8–10%
A. Memory, p. 208-239
B. Language, p. 262-270
C. Thinking, p. 240-253, 328
D. Problem Solving and Creativity, p. 245-247, p. 252-253
VII. Cognition (8–10%)
In this unit students learn how humans convert sensory input into kinds of information.
They examine how humans learn, remember, and retrieve information. This part of the
course also addresses problem solving, language, and creativity.
AP students in psychology should be able to do the following:
Compare and contrast various cognitive processes:
effortful processing
automatic processing
deep processing
shallow processing
focused attention
divided attention
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Identify the following vocabulary.
cognition
artificial intelligence (AI)
thinking
concept
prototype model
problem solving
subgoals
algorithms
heuristics
fixation
functional fixedness
reasoning
inductive reasoning
deductive reasoning
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decision making
confirmation bias
hindsight bias
availability heuristic
base rate fallacy
representativeness heuristic
mindfulness
open-mindedness
creativity
divergent thinking
convergent thinking
intelligence
validity
reliability
standardization
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mental age (MA)
intelligence quotient (IQ)
normal distribution
culture-fair tests
heritability
gifted
intellectual disability
triarchic theory of intelligence
language
infinite generativity
phonology
morphology
syntax
semantics
pragmatics
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cognitive appraisal
coping
cognitive reappraisal
Outline the principles that underlie effective construction of memories.
Describe strategies for memory improvement.
Explain Atkinson-Shiffrin theory.
Identify the following vocabulary.
storage
sensory memory
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short-term memory
working memory
longer-term memory
explicit memory
episodic memory
semantic memory
implicit memory
procedural memory
priming
schema
script
connectionism
retrieval
serial position effect
autobiographical memory
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flashbulb memory
motivated forgetting
interference theory
proactive interference
retroactive interference
decay theory
tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon
retrospective memory
prospective memory
amnesia
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
Synthesize how factors converge to facilitate acquisition, development, and use of
language.
biological
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cognitive
cultural
Identify problem-solving strategies as well as factors that influence their effectiveness.
List the characteristics of creative thought and creative thinkers.
Identify key contributors in cognitive psychology.
Noam Chomsky
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Wolfgang Köhler
Elizabeth Loftus
George A. Miller.