Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language
13855007906 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | 0 | |
13855007907 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 1 | |
13855007908 | Prototype | a standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!) | 2 | |
13855007909 | algorithm | a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | 3 | |
13855007910 | Heuristic | a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | 4 | |
13855007911 | 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 | |
13855007912 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | 6 | |
13855007913 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions | 7 | |
13855007914 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set | 8 | |
13855007915 | Mental Set | a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past | 9 | |
13855007916 | Functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving (Is a shoe just a shoe?) | 10 | |
13855007917 | 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 relevent information | 11 | |
13855007918 | 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 | |
13855007919 | Overconfidence | total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | 13 | |
13855007920 | Belief Perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 14 | |
13855007921 | Intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) | 15 | |
13855007922 | Framing | formulation of the plans and important details | 16 | |
13855007923 | Language | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | 17 | |
13855007924 | Phoneme | (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language | 18 | |
13855007925 | Morpheme | minimal meaningful language unit | 19 | |
13855007926 | Grammar | studies of the formation of basic linguistic units | 20 | |
13855007927 | Semantics | the study of language meaning | 21 | |
13855007928 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 22 | |
13855007929 | 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 | |
13855007930 | One-word Stage | the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words | 24 | |
13855007931 | Two-word stage | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | 25 | |
13855007932 | 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 | |
13855007933 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think | 27 | |
13855007934 | Noam Chomsky | United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928) | 28 | |
13855007935 | B.F Skinner | pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments | 29 | |
13855007936 | Benjamin Whorf | Concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought | 30 |