AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -When we use the word “automobile” to refer to a category of transport vehicles, we are using this word as a(n): concept. Having learned the rule that a triangle has three sides, we thereafter classify all three-sided geometric forms as triangles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cognition refers to mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information. Cognition can include reasoning, judgment, and assembling new information into knowledge.

Detailed explanation-3: -The linguistic learning theory of language development comes from the work of Noam Chomsky, and it is based on the idea that people are born with an innate ability to learn a language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

Detailed explanation-5: -The representativeness heuristic can contribute to prejudice and systemic discrimination. Because we rely on categories and prototypes to guide our perception of others, we can easily end up drawing on stereotypes to make judgments about other people.