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5412135996cognitionthe mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating0
5412135997concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
5412137430prototypea mental image or best example of a category2
5412137431algorithma methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem3
5412138346heuristicsimple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgement and solve problems efficiently.4
5412138347insighta sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem5
5412139469confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions6
5412139470fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective7
5412139471mental seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, usually a way that has worked in the past8
5412140807functional fixednessthe tendency to think of things only in their usual functions9
5412140808representativeness heuristicjudging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes.10
5412143607availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in recent memory11
5412143608overconfidencethe tendency to be more confident than correct12
5412148118framingthe way an issue is posed13
5412148119belief biasthe tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning14
5412148120belief perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.15
5412149446languageour spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning16
5412149447phonemein a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit17
5412149448morphemein a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning18
5412149449grammarin a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others19
5412151522semanticsthe set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences20
5412151523syntaxthe rules for combing words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language21
5412151524babbling stagebeginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development where the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to household language22
5412153033one-word stagethe stage in speech development from age 1 to 2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words23
5412153034two-word stagebeginning at about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements24
5412153035telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs, commonly omitting auxiliary words.25
5412155107linguistic determinationWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think26

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