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12551660823CognitionMental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating0
12551660824ConceptA mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people (similar to perceptual set)1
12551660825PrototypeA mental image or best example of a category2
12551660826AlgorithmA step-by-step procedure that leads to a definite solution.3
12551660827HeuristicA simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms.4
12551660828Availability HeuristicEstimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common5
12551660829Representativeness HeuristicJudging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information.6
12551660830InsightA sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem7
12551660831Confirmation BiasA tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence8
12551660832Mental SetA tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
12551660833Functional FixednessTendency to see objects as only working in a particular way.10
12551660834IntuitionImmediate and automatic feeling and thought11
12551660835Trial and ErrorMost fundamental method of problem solving12
12551660836OverconfidenceTendency to overestimate our judgement13
12551660837Belief PerserveranceClinging to your initial belief in something despite no evidence proving it14
12551660838FramingThe way we present an issue, can impact judgement15
12551660839LanguageSpoken, written, signed words that we communicate into meaning16
12551660840PhonemesSmallest distinctive sound unit17
12551660841MorphemesSmallest unit of sound that holds meaning18
12551660842GrammarSystem of rules that enables us to communicate19
12551660843SemanticsRules for deriving meaning from words20
12551660844SyntaxRules to combine words21
12551660845Receptive LanguageIn infants, the ability to understand what is said to them and about them22
12551660846Productive LanguageThe ability to produce words23
12551660847Babbling StageAbout 4 months, speech development unrelated to household language24
12551660848One Word Stage (Holophrastic)Around 1-2 years old, communicating in single worded phrases "ma" "uh"25
12551660849Two Word StageBeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statement, overgeneralizes wants and needs26
12551660850Telegraphic StageEarly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram (go car) using mostly nouns and verbs, omitting auxiliary words27
12551660851Critical Period Theory (Language Development)The window on language development closes gradually in early childhood28
12551660852"Genie"A girl who was locked up for 14 years and when she was found, she had missed the critical period where she could have learned language so she could not speak and was extremely socially delayed29
12551660853AphasiaImpairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).30
12551660854Brocas AreaControls language expression-area of the frontal lobe in left hemisphere that directs muscle movements involved in speech31
12551660855Wernickes AreaLanguage comprehension, left temporal lobe32
12551660856Noam ChomskyLanguage development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition, stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language, humans have an inborn native ability to develop language33
12551660857Nativist TheoryYou have the ability to pick up language which is inborn, but it has to be natured34
12551660858Belief BiasThe tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid35
12551660859ConvergentIdeas come together36
12551660860DivergentIdeas come apart37
12551660861Linguistic DeterminismWhorfs hypothesis that language determines the way we think, we cannot think things if we cannot say them38
12551660862Bilingual AdvantageThe advantage of bilingual individuals to inhibit one language while using the other and inhibit attention to irrelevant information39
12551660863Nondeclarative MemoryMental picture of how you do something, implicit memory40
12551660864Mental PracticeMentally rehearsing future behaviours, activates the same part of your brain as if you were really doing the action41
12551660865Artificial intelligence - PracticalRobots that can sense their environment.42
12551660866Artificial intelligence - TheoreticalComputers that mimic human thinking.43
12551660867Artificial intelligence - Computer Neural NetworksMimic the brain's interconnected neural networks.44
12551660868GadnerTaught Washoe the chimp 132 signs by age 4 and 181 by age 32. Speech evolved from gestures.45

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