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| 3693805176 | Algorithm | A step-by-step procedure that leads to a definite solution. | 0 | |
| 3693818226 | 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 | 1 | |
| 3693819826 | Babbling stage | the stage of speech development in which an infant utters various sounds at first unrelated to the house hold language | 2 | |
| 3693822316 | Belief perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 3 | |
| 3693823867 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 4 | |
| 3693825582 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence | 5 | |
| 3693827462 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | 6 | |
| 3693830529 | Fixation | According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. | 7 | |
| 3693836238 | Framing | Ability of the media to influence public perception of issues by constructing the issue or discussion of a subject in a certain way | 8 | |
| 3693837973 | Functional fixedness | The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving. | 9 | |
| 3693839943 | Grammar | in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 10 | |
| 3693843019 | Heuristic | A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms. | 11 | |
| 3693844262 | Insight | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem | 12 | |
| 3693845997 | Intuition | an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning | 13 | |
| 3693847467 | Language | A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning. | 14 | |
| 3693849898 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think | 15 | |
| 3693849899 | Mental set | a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past | 16 | |
| 3693851080 | Morpheme | the smallest unit that carries meaning | 17 | |
| 3693854215 | One-word phase | early period of language development when children use single-word phrases to convey an entire thought | 18 | |
| 3693863382 | Overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements | 19 | |
| 3693863383 | Phoneme | smallest unit of sound | 20 | |
| 3693867012 | Prototype | an original instance that serves as a model on which later stages are based or judged- "normal" | 21 | |
| 3693876061 | Representativeness 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. | 22 | |
| 3693876062 | Semantics | Meaning of words and sentences | 23 | |
| 3693877421 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 24 | |
| 3693880414 | Telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram | 25 | |
| 3693882348 | Two-word stage | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | 26 |
