Unit 7: Cognition - AP Psychology Syllabus and Calendar
Concept map outlines
ET 7-1: Cognition and ConceptsCognition 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
|
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
|
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 ThoughtWalking for Creativity? |
Essential Task 7-4: List the characteristics, stages, and ways to foster creative thought.
|
ET 7-5: Language
|
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
|
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
|
Essential Task 7-7: Analyze how culture impacts language (linquistic determinism) and the quality and depth of non-human thought and language-free processing.
|
Helpful Links |
