Psychology Ninth Edition by David Myers. Chapter 9: Thinking and Language Vocabulary.
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| 5497202108 | Cognition | The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | 0 | |
| 5497202109 | Concept | A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. | 1 | |
| 5497202110 | Prototype | A mental image or best example of a category. | 2 | |
| 5497202111 | Algorithm | A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. | 3 | |
| 5497202112 | Heuristic | A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently. | 4 | |
| 5497202113 | Insight | A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.. | 5 | |
| 5497202114 | Confirmation Bias | A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence. | 6 | |
| 5497202116 | Mental set | A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past. | 7 | |
| 5497202119 | Availability Heuristic | Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory. | 8 | |
| 5497202120 | Overconfidence | The tendency to be more confident than correct. | 9 | |
| 5497202121 | Belief Perseverance | Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. | 10 | |
| 5497202122 | Intuition | An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. | 11 | |
| 5497202123 | Framing | The way an issue is posed that may affect decisions and judgments. | 12 | |
| 5497202124 | Language | Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. | 13 | |
| 5497202125 | Phoneme | In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. | 14 | |
| 5497202126 | Morpheme | In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning. | 15 | |
| 5497202127 | Grammar | in language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. | 16 | |
| 5497202130 | Babbling Stage | 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. | 17 | |
| 5497202131 | One-word Stage | The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words. | 18 | |
| 5497202132 | Two-word Stage | Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements. | 19 | |
| 5497202133 | Telegraphic Speech | Early speech stage in which a child speaks using mostly nouns and verbs. | 20 | |
| 5497202134 | Aphasia | Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area or to Wernicke's area. | 21 | |
| 5497202135 | Broca's area | Controls language expression - an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech. | 22 | |
| 5497202136 | Wernicke's area | Controls language reception - a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe. | 23 | |
| 5497202137 | Linguistic Determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. | 24 |
