1. Announcements Final returned
Answer keys posted tonight (take home assignment, practice problems)
No 10th period SGI today (BUT yes 10th period tomorrow)

2. Do Now: Anterograde vs retrograde amnesia
Proactive vs retroactive interference

3. AIM: How can we review language, development, and emotion?

4. May 6, 2010 AP Psychology Review

5. Language Language Theories: Language Acquisition Stages
Chomsky: Language Acquisition Device
Whorf Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Language Acquisition Stages
Babbling
One word
Two Word
Overgeneralization

6. Availability Heuristic- judging a situation based on examples of similar situations that come to mind initially Example: plane crashes

7. Representative heuristic: Judging a situation based on how similar the aspects are to prototypes that person holds in his or her mind

8. Mental set- falling into established thought patterns
Belief bias: illogical conclusions to confirm our beliefs
Belief perseverance: tendency NOT to change our beliefs (even when presented with contradicting evidence)
Confirmation Bias: search for evidence that confirms our beliefs
Framing
I believe most truck drivers are not interested in poetry, therefore I will conclude even
Confirmation bias: tend to ignore evidence that does NOT support our beliefs

9. Divergent versus Convergent Thinking
Divergent= creative, multiple solutions
Convergent= problem solving

10. Piaget’s Stages of Development
Sensorimotor: birth to two years
explore world through sense
object permanence
Preoperational: 2-7 years
Language ability
Egocentric
Concrete Operational (8-12 yrs)
logic thought
concepts of conservation
Theory of Mind
Formal Operational (12 to adulthood)