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Unit 7: Cognition - ​AP Psychology Syllabus and Calendar

Concept map outlines

ET 7-1: Cognition and Concepts

Cognition and Concepts PowerPoint

Essential Task 7-1: Define cognition and identify how the following interact to form our cognitive life:
schemata/concepts, prototypes, assimilation, accommodation, effortful processing, and
unconscious processing. 


ET 7-2: Problem Solving
Problem Solving PowerPoint

Essential Task 7-2: Identify problem-solving techniques (algorithms and heuristics) as well as factors that influence their effectiveness (problem representation, mental set and functional fixedness). 


ET 7-3: Decision Making
Decision Making PowerPoint
Compensatory Model Template

Essential Task 7-3: Identify decision making techniques (compensatory models, representativeness heuristics, and availability heuristics) as well as factors that influence decision making (overconfidence,
confirmation bias, belief bias, belief perseverance, and hindsight bias) 


ET 7-4: Creative Thought

Walking for Creativity?

Essential Task 7-4: List the characteristics, stages, and ways to foster creative thought.

ET 7-5: Language
Language PowerPoint

Essential Task 7-5: Synthesize how biological, cognitive and cultural factors converge to facilitate the use of language (phonemes, morphemes, syntax and semantics) and its development (holophrastic stage, telegraphic speech). 



ET 7-6: Language
Language PowerPoint

Secrets of the Wild Child Viewer's Guide


Susan Curtis' Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day Wild Child 

Essential Task 7-6: Synthesize how biological, cognitive, and cultural factors converge to facilitate the acquisition (critical periods, Universal Inborn Grammar, and Victor/Genie) of language.

ET 7-7: Language
Culture and Non-human Language PowerPoint


Linguistic Determinism?

Essential Task 7-7: Analyze how culture impacts language (linquistic determinism) and the quality and depth of non-human thought and language-free processing.

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