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5947914692Cognitionthe mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
5947914693Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.1
5947914694Prototypea mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to a prototype provides quick/easy methods for sorting things.2
5947914695Algorithma methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.3
5947914696Heuristica simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently.4
5947914697Insighta sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.5
5947914698Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.6
5947914699Fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mindset.7
5947914700Mental seta tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.8
5947914701Functional fixednessthe tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.9
5947914702representative heuristicjudging the likely-hood of things based on how well they represent, or match, particularly prototypes. (Truck driver and librarian)10
5947914703Availability heuristicestimating the likely-hood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind we presume such events are common.11
5947914704Overconfidencethe tendency to be more confident than correct; to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements12
5947914705Belief perserverenceclinging to ones initial concepts after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.13
5947914706Intuitionan effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.14
5947914707Framingthe way an issue is posed; can significantly affect decisions and judgments.15
5947914708Phonemesin language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.16
5947914709Morphemesin language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be part of a word.17
5947914710Grammarin a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand each other.18
5947914711Semanticsthe set of rules by which we derive the MEANING from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also the study of MEANING.19
5947914712Syntaxthe rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.20
5947914713Babbling Stagebeginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language.21
5947914714One word stagethe stage in speech development, from age 1 to 2 , during with a child speaks mostly in single words.22
5947914715Two word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly 2 word statements.23
5947914716Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs.24
5947914717Aphasiaimpairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area or to Wernicke's area.25
5947914718Broca's Areacontrols language expression; an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere of the brain, that directs the muscle movements involving speech. (Controls speech muscles via the motor cortex)26
5947914719Wernicke's Areacontrols language reception; a brain area involving in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe. (Interprets auditory code)27

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