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Cognition

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The process wherby we acquire and knowledge
A flexible of communication that uses sounds,rules, gestures, or symbols to convey information
The bsic sound units of language that indicates changes in meanng
The smallest meaningful units of speech, such as simple words, prefixes, and suffixes
The language rules that determine how sounds and words can be combined and used to communicate meaning within a language
The rules for arranging words into grammatical phrases and sentences
The critria for assigning meaning to the morphemes in a language
A linguist who greatlt influenced psy understanding of syntax and semantics
The particular wods and phrases used to make up a sentence
The underlyinog meaning of a sentence
A nonverbal mental representation of a sensory experience.
Beleived that his skills in visualizig abstract concepts led to his extrodanary insights
A mental category for classifying objects, people, or experiences
Argued on the concept of a bird with feathers, wings and two-feet with the model bird or protype of a bluebird or sparrow
According to Rosch, a mental model containing the most typical features of a conlcept
An early spokesperson for the position of the linguistic determinism
The idea that patterns of thinking determined by the specific language one speaks
Tested the languague of being Male-dominated when give the word to fill in the blank and get stories of boys compared to leavinfg it blank and get a mixture. It s just a forced sterotype
Crosscultural psyc shows how cultural differences can affect perception, cognition, and behavior
Proffesor dealt with a parrot the understood he was saying and argued that his actions reflect reasoning, choice, and to some extent thinking.
Sterotyped communications about an animals current state
Raised chimpanzee as a deaf child with sign language and to see if they understod. When indeed it was possible telegraphic speech
Encountered the sam ewith an ape at which learned cvocabulary as a 5 yrs. after 2 decades using before and after and feelings
An early stage of one-and two- yrs that omits words that are no essential t the emaing of a phrase
The first step in solving a problem- defing the problem
A step-by-stp method of problem solving that gurantees a correct solution
Rules of thumb that help in simplyfing and solving problems, although they do not gurantee a correct solution
A heuristic problem-solving strategy in which each step moves you progressively closer to the final gaol
Intermediate, more manageable goals used in one heuristic strategy to make it easire to reach the final goal
A heuristic strategy hat ims to reduce the discrepancy between the current situation and desired goal at a number of intermediate points
A heuristic trategy in ehich one works background- from the desirees goal to the given conditions
The tendency to perceive and approach problems in certain ways
The tendency to perceive only a limited number of uses for an object , thus unterfering eith the process of problem solving
A problem-solving strategy in which an individual or a group produces numerous ideas evaluates them only after all ideas have been collected
A rational decision-making model in which choices are systematically evaluated on variuos criteria
Aheuristic by which a new situation is judged on the basis of its resemblance to a sterotypical model
A heuristic by which a judgement or decision is based information that is most easily retrieved from memory.
Thetendency to look for eveidence in that would disprove a belief
The oerspective or phrasing of information that is used to make a decision
Studied making among operates at nuclkear power plants. Stress if emergency situation causes dcision making to dterminate, sometime leading to panic
The tendency to view outsomes as inevitable and predicatable after we know the outcome
Thinking about alternative realities and things that never happened

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