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6134199624confirmation biasthe tendency to search for information that validates our belief, ignoring contradictory evidence0
6134208794Fixationthe inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective1
6134210853mental settendency to use old solutions in order to solve new situations. Approaching a problem with an old mindset, not thinking of fresh, new solutions2
6134220308Functional fixednessThe inability to think of new ideas, functions for certain objects, away from their intended use.3
6134229013Representative Heuristic(kind of like stereotyping.) Drawing conclusions to a question by judging the likelihood of how well they seem to represent a particular prototype.4
6134253352Availability Heuristicdrawing conclusions based on how fresh information is in our brain, (ignoring other information)5
6134263776Intuitionan effortless, immediate automatic feeling or thought controlled with conscious reasoning6
6134268994Languageour spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning7
6134273285PhonemesThe smallest sound unit; ex(b-a-t, b-i-ke)8
6134276477MorphemesThe smallest unit of meaning (prefixes and suffixes; anti, un,sub, ed, ing, ly)9
61342816944 months4 months, baby babbles many speech sounds. This is nature, so (predisposed to make mma, ppa based on latching form from breastfeeding)10
613428770010 monthsbabbling resembles household language11
613428844912 monthsone-word stage12
613428905124 monthstwo-word stage, telegraphic speech13
6134291334Receptive Languagebabies can associate specific sounds with people, (mom's voice)14
6134294155Productive Languageability to produce words15
6134295309Babbling(during the productive stage,) Spontaneously utter a variety of sounds from various languages16
6134300530Broca's Areadisrupts speaking, damage hear prevents people from speaking correctly but makes sense in mind. *IGNORES SYNTAX* can still sing & comprehend speech17
6134306268Wernicke's Areadisrupts understanding, people speak meaningless words, literally talking nonsense18
6134310522Angular Gyrusreading aloud, receives info from vision and encodes it into auditory form19
6134322019Chomsky's theory of Child language developmentchildren learn languages, words at an extraordinary rate too fast to count. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE- prewired box meaning everyone has the capability to learn every possible human language but it just depends on your environment20
6134331973Telegraphic speecha child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs- Want juice, Car Go, No Doggy, feed me21
6134317638Linguistic Determinismtheory by Whorf that says language determines the way we think. For example, if we don't have language for the past then we cant think about the past22

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