AP Psychology Language Crossword

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  1. 3. coming up with new ideas
  2. 5. learning ABCs, just the letters and layout of the words
  3. 7. having a preoccupation with something, not being able to stop thinking of it
  4. 11. the system of rules in a language that enable us to communicate with and understand others
  5. 12. the tendency to be more confident than correct.
  6. 13. a leading American psychologist, Harvard professor and proponent of the behaviourist theory of learning in which learning is a process of 'conditioning' in an environment of stimulus, reward and punishment.
  7. 15. pioneered the experimental study of memory. He discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.
  8. 17. the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences. Ex. In English, syntactical rule says that adjectives come before nouns; white house
  9. 18. a general rule of thumb or shortcut that is used to reduce the number of possible solutions to a problem
  10. 19. the way we communicate meaning (spoken, written, or gestured) to ourselves and others.
  11. 21. universal noises made by babies around the age of 4 months
  12. 22. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program.
  13. 24. the ability to think about a problem or idea in new and unusual ways, come up with unconventional solutions to problems
  14. 25. just coming up with the answer
  15. 26. some concepts fit into a group because of their meanings
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  1. 1. one-word phrases babies make around the age of 12 months
  2. 2. if children are not exposed to language before a certain age, they will be unable to acquire language
  3. 4. judging the likelihood of an event based on how well it matches a typical example.
  4. 6. posing a question or wording a phrase in such a way to persuade someone's thoughts
  5. 8. having pre-existing positions or beliefs about events, people, etc
  6. 9. the smallest distinctive units of sound used in a language
  7. 10. combining words to make meanings
  8. 14. the way we communicate meaning (spoken, written, or gestured) to ourselves and others.
  9. 16. judging the likelihood of an event based on readily available personal experiences or new reports
  10. 20. a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
  11. 23. combining words to make meanings