Thinking and Decision Making in AP Psychology

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Distinguish between cognition and metacognition with examples.

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Cognition refers to mental processes like thinking and learning, while metacognition involves awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.

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Explain how prototypes and schemas influence perception and categorization.

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Prototypes and schemas help organize information by providing mental frameworks, influencing how we perceive and categorize new information.

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Analyze real-world applications of assimilation and accommodation.

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Assimilation involves integrating new information into existing schemas, while accommodation requires altering schemas to fit new information, both crucial for learning and adaptation.

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Cognition

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All mental elements associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

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Metacognition

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Cognition about our cognition (thinking about thinking), keeping track and evaluating our mental processes.

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Concept

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A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

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Prototype

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A mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories (e.g., penguin bird vs. typical bird like crow).

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Schema

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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

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Examples of schemas

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Object schema, person schema, active schemas.

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Comparison of experiences

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Illustrates the concept of schemas by comparing different experiences.