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| 5857804933 | Prototype Keyword- mental image | a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories |  | 0 |
| 5857809766 | Algorithm Keyword- logical rule | a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier |  | 1 |
| 5857809767 | Heuristic Keyword- solve problems | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms. |  | 2 |
| 5857812004 | Insight Keyword- realization | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions. |  | 3 |
| 5857814740 | Confirmation bias Keyword- search | a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence. |  | 4 |
| 5857816403 | Fixation Keyword- different mental set | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set |  | 5 |
| 5857818994 | Mental set Keyword- one particular way | a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past |  | 6 |
| 5857824020 | Functional fixedness Keyword- usual functions | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving. |  | 7 |
| 5857829328 | Representativeness heuristic Keyword- match | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information. |  | 8 |
| 5857837156 | Availability heuristic Keyword- memory | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common. |  | 9 |
| 5857839517 | Overconfidence Keyword- more confident | the tendency to be more confident than correct—to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments. |  | 10 |
| 5857842765 | belief perseverance Keyword- initial conceptions | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. |  | 11 |
| 5857846086 | Framing Keyword-decisions and judgements | the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments. |  | 12 |
| 5857849782 | Language Keyword- communicate meaning | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. |  | 13 |
| 5857851658 | Phoneme Keyword- sound unit | in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. |  | 14 |
| 5857853574 | Morpheme Keyword- prefix | in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix). |  | 15 |
| 5857857744 | Grammar Keyword-rules | in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. |  | 16 |
| 5857859831 | Semantics Keyword-meaning | the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning. |  | 17 |
| 5857862781 | Syntax Keyword-combining | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language. |  | 18 |
| 5857866020 | Babbling stage Keyword- utters | beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language. |  | 19 |
| 5857870038 | One-word stage Keyword- single words | the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words. |  | 20 |
| 5857872906 | Two-word stage Keyword- two word statements | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two word statements. |  | 21 |
| 5857875327 | Telegraphic speech Keyword- nouns and verbs | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs. |  | 22 |
| 5857880351 | Aphasia Keyword-impairment of language | impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding). |  | 23 |
| 5865037647 | Broca's area Keyword- controls language reception | controls language expression—an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech. |  | 24 |
| 5865039193 | Wernicke's area Keyword-controls language reception | controls language reception—a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe. |  | 25 |
| 5865044742 | linguistic determinism Keyword- hypothesis | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. |  | 26 |
