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| 3265687464 | Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 0 | |
| 3265687465 | Concept | A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people | 1 | |
| 3265687466 | Prototype | A mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 3265687467 | Algorithm | A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts "heuristics". | 3 | |
| 3265687468 | Heuristic | A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently; speedy but more error-prone | 4 | |
| 3265687469 | Insight | A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem. Contrasts with "strategy" | 5 | |
| 3265687470 | Confirmation Bias | A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence | 6 | |
| 3265687471 | Fixation | The inability to see a problem from a new perspective or employ a new mental set | 7 | |
| 3265687472 | Mental Set | A tendency to approach a problem in a specific way, often a way that has been successful in the past | 8 | |
| 3265687473 | Functional Fixedness | The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; it inhibits problem solving | 9 | |
| 3265687474 | Representative Heuristic | Judging the likelihood in terms of how well they seem to represent or match a prototype (can make you ignore relevant info) | 10 | |
| 3265687475 | Availability Heuristic | Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory (if instances come readily to mind we presume they are common) | 11 | |
| 3265687476 | Overconfidence | The tendency to be more confident than correct | 12 | |
| 3265687477 | Framing | The way that an issue is posed; can have significant effects on judgments and decisions | 13 | |
| 3265687478 | Belief Bias | Pre-existing beliefs distort logical reasoning and cause invalid conclusions | 14 | |
| 3265687479 | Belief Perserverance | Clinging to one's initial conception after they are discredited | 15 | |
| 3265687480 | Language | Spoken, written, or signed words and the ways that they are combined to communicate meaning | 16 | |
| 3265687481 | Phoneme | Smallest basic unit of language (like a syllable) | 17 | |
| 3265687482 | Morepheme | The smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word (like a prefix) | 18 | |
| 3265687483 | Grammar | A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 19 | |
| 3265687484 | Semantics | A set of rules by which we derive meaning from language | 20 | |
| 3265687485 | Syntax | The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 21 | |
| 3265687486 | Babbling Stage | stage of speech (4mo) development where infant utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language | 22 | |
| 3265687487 | One-word Stage | Speech development stage from about 1-2 y during which a child speaks mostly in single words | 23 | |
| 3265687488 | Two-word Stage | Speech development stage around 2 y/o, during which a child speaks mostly in two words | 24 | |
| 3265687489 | Telegraphic Speech | Early speech development stage where the child speaks like a telegram "Go car" | 25 | |
| 3265687490 | Linguistic Determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way that we think | 26 |
