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4953657845Cognition: the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating.0
4953669281Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas.1
4953680789Prototypea mental image or best example of a category. Matching items to prototype provides quick and easy method for including items in a category.2
4953695648Algorithma slow, accurate method for solving a problem.3
4953705662Heuristica fast, inaccurate method for solving problems.4
4953716455Insighta sudden realization of the solution to a problem ; strategy based solutions.5
4953835589Conformation biasa tendency to search for info that confirms one's own point of view6
4953855301Fixationthe inability to see problems from a new prespective7
4953862849Mental seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially in a way that has been successful in the past.8
4953893207Functional fixationthe tendency to only think of using things for their designed purpose.9
4953907869Representativeness heuristicjudging the likelihood of something based on particular prototypes.10
4953942291Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on the availability in memory. The more available the more "likely" the event.11
4953998480Over confidenceOverestimating ones accuracy. Nick12
4954003575Framingthe way an issue is posed.13
4954009423Belief biasthe tendency for someone to search for evidence confirming their point of view.14
4954019838Belief perservancesticking to a belief even after it's been proven wrong.15
4954024484Artificial intellegencethe science of creating a computer capable o cognition like a human.16
4954226626Computer neural networkcircuits that mimic the brain's neural calls.17
4954236451Languageour spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.18
4954248722Phonemethe smallest sound unit.19
4954251952Morphemethe smallest sound unit that you can derive meaning.20
4954257607Grammara set of rules to communicate effectively.21
4954265401Semanitcsa set of rules to get meaning from morphemes.22
4954274709Syntaxthe rules for how we combine words or phrases.23
4954278289Babbling stage3-4 months where infants utter phonemes.24
4954286781One-word stageAge 1-2 where children speak mostly 1 word25
4954286782Two-word stageAge 2 where children speak mostly 2 words.26
4954289850Telegraphic speechearly speaking that isn't grammatically correct but can derive meaning. "Dad worked"27
4954322291Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.28

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