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| 5565804393 | Congnition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 0 | |
| 5565804394 | Concepts | Mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 1 | |
| 5565804395 | Prototypes | Mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 5565804396 | Algorithm | A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. | 3 | |
| 5565804397 | Heuristics | Simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently | 4 | |
| 5565804398 | Insight | Sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem | 5 | |
| 5565804399 | Confirmation bias | Tendency to search for information that confirms ones preconceptions | 6 | |
| 5565804400 | Fixation | Inability to see a problem from a new perspective | 7 | |
| 5565804401 | Mental set | Tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially a way that has been successful in the past but may or may not be helpful in solving a new problem | 8 | |
| 5565804402 | Functional fixedness | Tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions | 9 | |
| 5565804403 | Representativeness heuristic | Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes | 10 | |
| 5565804404 | Availability heuristic | Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory | 11 | |
| 5565804405 | Overconfidence | Tendency to become more confident than correct To overestimate the accuracy of ones belief and judgements | 12 | |
| 5565804406 | Framing | The way an issue is posed | 13 | |
| 5565804407 | Belief bias | Tendency for ones preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid | 14 | |
| 5565804408 | Belief preserverence | Clinging to ones initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 15 | |
| 5565804409 | Artificial intelligence | The science of designing and programming computer systems to do intelligent things and to simulate human thought processes, such as intuitive reasoning, learning, and understanding language | 16 | |
| 5565804410 | Computer neural networks | Computer circuits that mimic the brains interconnected neural cells, performing tasks such as learning to recognize visual patterns and smells | 17 | |
| 5565804411 | Language | Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 18 | |
| 5565804412 | Phonemes | The smallest distinctive sound unit | 19 | |
| 5565804413 | Morphemes | In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning | 20 | |
| 5565804414 | Grammar | A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 21 | |
| 5565804415 | Semantics | Set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language. | 22 | |
| 5565804416 | Syntax | Rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 23 | |
| 5565804417 | Babbling stage | Beginning at 3-4 months the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language | 24 | |
| 5565804418 | One-word stage | The star in speech development from about age one to two during which a child speeds mostly in single words | 25 | |
| 5565804419 | Two-word stage | At age two, stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two word statements | 26 | |
| 5565804420 | Telegraphic speech | Early speech stage in which the child speaks like a telegrams | 27 | |
| 5565804421 | Linguistic determination | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think | 28 | |
| 5565804422 | Noam Chomsky | founders of the field of cognitive science. | 29 | |
| 5565804423 | Chomsky theory of language | We are all born with an innate knowledge of grammar that serves as the basis for all language acquisition. In other words, for humans, language is a basic instinct. | 30 | |
| 5565804424 | Benjamin whorf | known as an advocate for the idea that differences between the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. | 31 | |
| 5565804425 | Whorfian hypothesis | states that the way people think is strongly affected by their native languages. | 32 |
