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| 852554377 | Cognition | Thinking, gaining knowledge, and using knowledge. | 1 | |
| 852554378 | Attention | Your tendency to respond to some other stimulus more than others at any given time or to remember some more than others. | 2 | |
| 852554379 | Preattentive Process | Meaning that it stands out imediately. We don't have to shift attention from one object to another. | 3 | |
| 852554380 | Attentive Process | One that requires searching through the items in series. | 4 | |
| 852554381 | Stroop Effect | The tendency to read the word, instead of saying the color of ink as instructed. | 5 | |
| 852554382 | Change- Blindness | The frequent failure to detect changes in parts of a scene. | 6 | |
| 852554383 | Attentional Blink | During a brief time after perceiving one stimulus, it is difficult to attend to something else. | 7 | |
| 852554384 | Attention- Defecit Disorder (ADD) | Easy distraction, impulsiveness, moodiness, and failure to follow through on plans. | 8 | |
| 852554385 | Attention- Defecit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | The same except with excessive activity and "fidgetiness." | 9 | |
| 852554386 | Prototypes | Familiar or typical examples. | 10 | |
| 852554387 | Spreading Activation | Think about one of the concepts shown in this figure will activate, or prime, the concepts linked to it. | 11 | |
| 852554388 | Priming | A concept gets it started. A small reminder of a concept makes it easier for someone to think of it. | 12 | |
| 852554389 | Algorithm | A mechanical, repetitive procedure for solving a problem or testing every hypothesis. | 13 | |
| 852554390 | Heuristics | Strategies for simplifying a problem and generating a satisfactory guess. | 14 | |
| 852554391 | Representative Heuristics | The assumption that an item that resembles members of some category is probably another member of that category. | 15 | |
| 852554392 | Base- Rate Information | How common the two categories are. | 16 | |
| 852554393 | Avaliability Heuristics | The strategy of assuming that how easily one can remember examples of some kind of item indicates how common the item itself is. | 17 | |
| 852554394 | Critical Thinking | The careful evaluation of evidence for and against any conclusion. | 18 | |
| 852554395 | Overconfident | They believed their estimates were more accurate than they actually were. | 19 | |
| 852554396 | Confirmation Bias | Accepting a hypothesis and then looking for evidence to support it, instead of considering other possibilities. | 20 | |
| 852554397 | Functional Fixedness | The tendency to adhere to a single approach or a single way of using an item. | 21 | |
| 852554398 | Framing Effect | The tendency to answer a question differently when it is framed (phased) differently. | 22 | |
| 852554399 | Sunk Cost Effect | The willingness to so something because of money or effort already spent. | 23 | |
| 852554400 | Maximizing | Thoroughly considering every possibility to find the best one. | 24 | |
| 852554401 | Satisficinig | Searching only until you find something that is good enough (satisfactory). | 25 | |
| 852554402 | Productivity | The ability to combine our words into new sentences that express an unlimited variety of ideas. | 26 | |
| 852554403 | Transformational Grammar | A system for converting a deep structure into a surface structure. | 27 | |
| 852554404 | Williams Syndrome | A genetic condition characterized by mental retardation in most regards but skillful use of language. | 28 | |
| 852554405 | Language Acquisition Device | A built- in mechanism for acquiring language. | 29 | |
| 852554406 | Broca's Aphasia | A condition characterized by difficulties in language production. | 30 | |
| 852554407 | Wernicke's Aphasia | A condition marked by difficulty recalling the names of objects and impaired comprehension of language. | 31 | |
| 852554408 | Bilingual | Learning two languages about equally well. | 32 | |
| 852554409 | Word- Superiority Effect | Idenitfy the letter more accurately when it is part of a whole word than when it is presented by itself. | 33 | |
| 852554410 | Phoneme | A unit of sound. | 34 | |
| 852554411 | Morpheme | A unit of meaning. | 35 | |
| 852554412 | Fixations | When your eyes are stationary. | 36 | |
| 852554413 | Saccades | Quick eye movements that take your eyes from one fixation point to another. | 37 |
