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| 5859274169 | Priming | the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory | 0 | |
| 5859274180 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 1 | |
| 5859274185 | Divergent thinking | expands the number of possible problem solutions (creative thinking that diverges in different directions) | 2 | |
| 5859274186 | Algorithm | a methodical, logical rules or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem - contrasts with the usually speeder - but also more error-prone - use of heuristics | 3 | |
| 5859274187 | Heuristic | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently - usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms | 4 | |
| 5859274188 | Insight | a sudden realization of a problem's solutions - contrasts with strategy-based solutions | 5 | |
| 5859274189 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence | 6 | |
| 5859274194 | Overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct - to overestimate the accuract of our beliefs and judgments | 7 | |
| 5859274195 | Belief perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 8 | |
| 5859274198 | Phenome | in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit | 9 | |
| 5859274199 | Morpheme | in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning - may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix) | 10 | |
| 5859274206 | Broca's area | controls language expression - an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements in speech | 11 | |
| 5859274207 | Wernicke's area | controls language reception - a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression - usually in the left temporal lobe | 12 |
