Week 6 Ap Psychology

Question 1

Heuristic

Answer 1

A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently.

Question 2

Convergent Thinking

Answer 2

The ability to give the “correct” answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity

Question 3

Divergent Thinking

Answer 3

The thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions.

Question 4

Framing

Answer 4

The way an issue is posed ; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.

Question 5

Belief Perseverance

Answer 5

Clinging to ones initial conceptions after the bias on who’s they were formed has been discredited.

Question 6

Representative Heuristic

Answer 6

Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes.

Question 7

Brocas’s Area

Answer 7

Controls language expressions, an area, usually in the left frontal lobe, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech.

Question 8

Wernicke’s Area

Answer 8

Controls language reception- a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression ; usually in the left temporal lobe

Question 9

Mental Set

Answer 9

A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, after that has been successful in the past.

Question 10

Intuition

Answer 10

An effortless, immediate, automatic, feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.