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| 14673539688 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | 0 | |
| 14673539689 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 1 | |
| 14673539690 | Prototype | a standard or typical example | 2 | |
| 14673539691 | algorithm | a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | 3 | |
| 14673539692 | Heuristic | a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | 4 | |
| 14673539693 | Insight | A cognitive form of learning involving the mental rearragnment or restructuring of the elements in a problem to achieve an understanding or the problem and arrive at a solution | 5 | |
| 14673539694 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | 6 | |
| 14673539695 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions | 7 | |
| 14673539696 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set | 8 | |
| 14673539697 | Mental Set | a tendency to approach a problem or new information in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past | 9 | |
| 14673539698 | Functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving. A SHOE IS A WEAPON. | 10 | |
| 14673539699 | Representative heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information | 11 | |
| 14673539700 | Availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common | 12 | |
| 14673539701 | Overconfidence | more certainty in prediction than circumstances warrant | 13 | |
| 14673539702 | Belief Perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 14 | |
| 14673539703 | Intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) | 15 | |
| 14673539704 | Framing | the way an issue is posed | 16 | |
| 14673539705 | Language | spoken, written or signed words, and the ways we use them to communicate. | 17 | |
| 14673539706 | Phoneme | (linguistics) the smallest distinctive unit of sound | 18 | |
| 14673539707 | Morpheme | smallest meaningful language unit | 19 | |
| 14673539708 | Grammar | a system of linguistic rules that enables communication | 20 | |
| 14673539709 | Semantics | the study of language meaning | 21 | |
| 14673539710 | Syntax | the rules for grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 22 | |
| 14673539711 | Babbling Stage | beginning 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 | |
| 14673539712 | One-word Stage | the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words | 24 | |
| 14673539713 | Two-word stage | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | 25 | |
| 14673539714 | Telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words | 26 | |
| 14673539715 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think | 27 | |
| 14673539716 | Noam Chomsky | American linguist whose theory of generative grammar argued that language and grammar are innate, that we have a language acquisition device built in. | 28 | |
| 14673539717 | B.F Skinner | pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments | 29 | |
| 14673539718 | Benjamin Whorf | Linguist who theorized the concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought | 30 |
