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Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

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9044607127cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
9044607128Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
9044607129PrototypeA mental image or best example of a category2
9044607130algorithma methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem3
9044607131HeuristicA simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently4
9044607132InsightA sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem5
9044607133Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas6
9044607134Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions7
9044607135fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set8
9044607136Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
9044607137Functional fixednessthe tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving10
9044607138Representative heuristicjudging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevent information11
9044607139Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common12
9044607140OverconfidenceTendency to overestimate our ability to make correct13
9044607141Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited14
9044607142Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)15
9044607143Framingthe way an issue is posed16
9044607144Languagespoken, written or signed words, and the ways we use them to communicate.17
9044607145Phoneme(linguistics) the smallest distinctive unit of sound18
9044607146Morphemesmallest meaningful language unit19
9044607147Grammara system of linguistic rules that enables communication20
9044607148SemanticsThe set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language21
9044607149Syntaxthe rules for grammatical arrangement of words in sentences22
9044607150Babbling Stagebeginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household lanuage.23
9044607151One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words24
9044607152Two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements25
9044607153Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words26
9044607154Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think27
9044607155Noam ChomskyAmerican linguist whose theory of generative grammar argued that language and grammar are innate, that we have a language acquisition device built in.28
9044607156B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments29
9044607157Benjamin WhorfLinguist who theorized the concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought30
9044652520belief biasthe tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes making invalid conclusions31

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