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| 9397103316 | cognition | the act of perceiving or knowing | 0 | |
| 9397103317 | Concepts | ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, or activities | 1 | |
| 9397103318 | prototype | a mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 9397103319 | Algorithms | very specific, step-by-step procedures for solving certain types of problems | 3 | |
| 9397103320 | Heuristics | mental shortcuts | 4 | |
| 9397103321 | creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | 5 | |
| 9397103322 | convergent thinking | narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution | 6 | |
| 9397103323 | divergent thinking | a type of creative thinking in which one generates new solutions to problems | 7 | |
| 9397103324 | confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions | 8 | |
| 9397103325 | functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions | 9 | |
| 9397103326 | mental set | a habitual strategy or pattern of problem solving | 10 | |
| 9397103327 | representativeness heuristic | a mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case | 11 | |
| 9397103328 | availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory | 12 | |
| 9397103329 | belief perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 13 | |
| 9397103330 | Anchoring | The tendency for individuals to rely too heavily on a single piece of information. | 14 | |
| 9397103331 | intuition | the power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight | 15 | |
| 9397103332 | Framing | the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments. | 16 | |
| 9397103333 | language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 17 | |
| 9397103334 | phoneme | in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit | 18 | |
| 9397103335 | Morpheme | Smallest unit of meaning | 19 | |
| 9397103336 | grammar | in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 20 | |
| 9397103337 | Semantics | Meaning of words and sentences | 21 | |
| 9397103338 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 22 | |
| 9397103339 | babbling stage | babies spontaneously uttering a variety of words, such as ah-goo | 23 | |
| 9397103340 | one-word stage | the stage in which children speak mainly in single words | 24 | |
| 9397103341 | two-word stage | they start uttering two word sentences | 25 | |
| 9397103342 | telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs. | 26 | |
| 9397103343 | operant learning | B.F. Skinner's theory that we learn language through association, imitation, and reinforcement | 27 | |
| 9397103344 | universal grammar | a proposed set of highly abstract, unconscious rules that are common to all languages | 28 | |
| 9397103345 | surface structure | how a sentence is worded | 29 | |
| 9397103346 | deep structure | the meaning of a sentence | 30 | |
| 9397103347 | critical learning | listening to evaluate or analyze | 31 | |
| 9397103348 | linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think | 32 | |
| 9397103349 | Noam Chomsky | Created concept of "universal grammar" | 33 | |
| 9397103350 | Benjamin Whorf | language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think | 34 | |
| 9397103351 | Amos Tversky | A key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias | 35 | |
| 9397103352 | Daniel Kahneman | reinforcing Bentham's idea because we now have ways to measure happiness | 36 |
