| 4953657845 | Cognition | : the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating. | ![]() | 0 |
| 4953669281 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas. | ![]() | 1 |
| 4953680789 | Prototype | a mental image or best example of a category. Matching items to prototype provides quick and easy method for including items in a category. | 2 | |
| 4953695648 | Algorithm | a slow, accurate method for solving a problem. | ![]() | 3 |
| 4953705662 | Heuristic | a fast, inaccurate method for solving problems. | 4 | |
| 4953716455 | Insight | a sudden realization of the solution to a problem ; strategy based solutions. | ![]() | 5 |
| 4953835589 | Conformation bias | a tendency to search for info that confirms one's own point of view | ![]() | 6 |
| 4953855301 | Fixation | the inability to see problems from a new prespective | 7 | |
| 4953862849 | Mental set | a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially in a way that has been successful in the past. | 8 | |
| 4953893207 | Functional fixation | the tendency to only think of using things for their designed purpose. | ![]() | 9 |
| 4953907869 | Representativeness heuristic | judging the likelihood of something based on particular prototypes. | 10 | |
| 4953942291 | Availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on the availability in memory. The more available the more "likely" the event. | 11 | |
| 4953998480 | Over confidence | Overestimating ones accuracy. Nick | 12 | |
| 4954003575 | Framing | the way an issue is posed. | 13 | |
| 4954009423 | Belief bias | the tendency for someone to search for evidence confirming their point of view. | 14 | |
| 4954019838 | Belief perservance | sticking to a belief even after it's been proven wrong. | 15 | |
| 4954024484 | Artificial intellegence | the science of creating a computer capable o cognition like a human. | ![]() | 16 |
| 4954226626 | Computer neural network | circuits that mimic the brain's neural calls. | 17 | |
| 4954236451 | Language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. | ![]() | 18 |
| 4954248722 | Phoneme | the smallest sound unit. | 19 | |
| 4954251952 | Morpheme | the smallest sound unit that you can derive meaning. | 20 | |
| 4954257607 | Grammar | a set of rules to communicate effectively. | 21 | |
| 4954265401 | Semanitcs | a set of rules to get meaning from morphemes. | 22 | |
| 4954274709 | Syntax | the rules for how we combine words or phrases. | 23 | |
| 4954278289 | Babbling stage | 3-4 months where infants utter phonemes. | 24 | |
| 4954286781 | One-word stage | Age 1-2 where children speak mostly 1 word | ![]() | 25 |
| 4954286782 | Two-word stage | Age 2 where children speak mostly 2 words. | ![]() | 26 |
| 4954289850 | Telegraphic speech | early speaking that isn't grammatically correct but can derive meaning. "Dad worked" | 27 | |
| 4954322291 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. | 28 |
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