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| 7477851373 | mental rehearsal | the use of imagery to practice an act mentally | 0 | |
| 7477851742 | bilingual advantage | the experience of knowing 2+ languages strengthens executive control | 1 | |
| 7477852774 | linguistic relativism | the worldview of culture is shaped and reflected by their language | 2 | |
| 7477853154 | linguistic determinism | language determines the way we think | 3 | |
| 7477854025 | language acquisition device | hypothetical tool in the brain that helps kids quickly learn and understand language | 4 | |
| 7477854880 | wernicke's area | brain area involved in language comprehension and expression | 5 | |
| 7477855649 | broca's area | area of frontal lobe that directs muscle movements involved in speech and controls language expression | 6 | |
| 7477856142 | aphasia | impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage | 7 | |
| 7477856733 | critical period | times when certain environmental influences can impact an infant's development | 8 | |
| 7477857898 | telegraphic speech | form of communication made up of simple 2 word sentences | 9 | |
| 7477859215 | two word stage | stage of speech development where a child speaks mostly two word statements | 10 | |
| 7477861635 | one word stage | stage of speech development when a child speaks mostly in single words | 11 | |
| 7477862465 | babbling stage | stage of speech development where an infant says meaningless sounds | 12 | |
| 7477863180 | productive language | speaking and writing | 13 | |
| 7477863752 | receptive language | the ability to understand information | 14 | |
| 7477864363 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically correct sentences | 15 | |
| 7477864777 | semantics | the set of rules we follow to obtain meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences | 16 | |
| 7477865644 | grammar | system of rules that enable us to communicate with and understand others | 17 | |
| 7477866128 | morpheme | the smallest unit that carries meaning | 18 | |
| 7477866571 | phoneme | the smallest distinctive sound unit | 19 | |
| 7477866936 | language | words that we combine to communicate meaning | 20 | |
| 7477867449 | framing | the way an issue is posed | 21 | |
| 7477867954 | belief perseverance | sticking with your initial beliefs even after they have been discredited | 22 | |
| 7477868605 | overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct | 23 | |
| 7477868994 | representative heuristic | mental shortcut that helps us make a decision by comparing information to our mental prototypes | 24 | |
| 7477869484 | availability heuristic | mental shortcut that helps us make a decision based on how easy it is to bring something to mind | 25 | |
| 7477872646 | intuition | the ability to understand something instinctively without conscious reasoning | 26 | |
| 7477873376 | functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual function | 27 | |
| 7477873656 | mental set | the tendency to approach a problem in a way that's worked in the past | 28 | |
| 7477874209 | deductive reasoning | logical process where a conclusion is based on the consistency of multiple premises that are generally believed to be true | 29 | |
| 7477874540 | inductive reasoning | taking general principles from specific facts or instances | 30 | |
| 7477875101 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective | 31 | |
| 7477875511 | confirmation bias | the tendency to search for info that aligns with our beliefs | 32 | |
| 7477876409 | convergent thinking | the ability to get the right answer without creative thinking | 33 | |
| 7477876696 | divergent thinking | thought process used to generate creative thinking by exploring different solutions | 34 | |
| 7477877058 | insight | a sudden realization of a solution | 35 | |
| 7477877416 | heuristics | mental shortcuts | 36 | |
| 7477877417 | algorithm | logical rule of procedure that guarantees solving of a problem | 37 | |
| 7477877848 | trial and error | guessing and checking | 38 | |
| 7477878312 | prototype | mental image | 39 | |
| 7477878715 | concept | mental groupings | 40 | |
| 7477879148 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 41 | |
| 7477879727 | cognitive psychology | the scientific study of mind and mental function | 42 |
