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| 6236722621 | Language Acquisition Device | The ability to learn a language rapidly as children. Noam Chomsky theorized that humans are born with this device. | 0 | |
| 6236733556 | Linguistic Relatively Hypothesis | Benjamin Whorf theorized that the language we use might control and in some ways limit our thinking. | 1 | |
| 6236741116 | Overgeneralization or overregularization | Misapplication of grammar rules. Occurs during language acquisition. | 2 | |
| 6236744314 | Morphemes | The smallest unit of meaningful sound. Can be words such as a and but. | 3 | |
| 6236744315 | Phonemes | The smallest unit of sound used in a language. | 4 | |
| 6236749801 | Language Acquisition | Stages in how we learn language. Stages include babbling, holophrastic, and telegraphic speech. Either by nurture or nature | 5 | |
| 6236749802 | Syntax | Particular word of order of a language. (Ex: where the verb is usually placed in the sentence) | 6 | |
| 6236749803 | Images | Mental pictures we create in our minds of the outside world | 7 | |
| 6236752733 | Confirmation Bias | Tendency to look for evidence that confirms our beliefs and to ignore evidence that contradicts what we think is true | 8 | |
| 6236754681 | Belief Bias or Belief perseverance | Tendency not to change our beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence. | 9 | |
| 6236758439 | Prototypes | The most typical example of a particular concept. (ex: if someone said bird you think of a robin then a robin represents your prototype of a bird) | 10 |
