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| 9729972777 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering , & communicating | 0 | |
| 9729972778 | concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | 1 | |
| 9729972779 | prototype | a mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 9729972780 | algorithm | a methodical, logical rule/proceudure that guarantees solving a particular problem | 3 | |
| 9729972781 | heuristic | a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments & solve problems efficiently | 4 | |
| 9729972782 | insight | a sudden realization of a problem's solution | 5 | |
| 9729972783 | confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions & to ignore/distort contradictory evidence | 6 | |
| 9729972784 | mental set | a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way | 7 | |
| 9729972785 | intuition | an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling/thought | 8 | |
| 9729972786 | availability heuristics | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory | 9 | |
| 9729972787 | overconfidence | the tendency to be more confident than correct | 10 | |
| 9729972788 | belief perserverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 11 | |
| 9729972789 | framing | the way an issue is posed | 12 | |
| 9729972790 | creativity | the ability to produce new & valuable ideas | 13 | |
| 9729972791 | convergent thinking | narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution | 14 | |
| 9729972792 | divergent thinking | expanding the number of possible problem solutions | 15 | |
| 9729972793 | language | our spoken, written, or gestured words & the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 16 | |
| 9729972794 | phoneme | the smallest distinctive sound unit | 17 | |
| 9729972795 | morpheme | the smallest unit that carrier meaning | 18 | |
| 9729972796 | grammar | a system of rules that enables us to communicate with & understand others | 19 | |
| 9729972797 | semantics | the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds | 20 | |
| 9729972798 | syntax | the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences | 21 | |
| 9729972799 | babbling stage | an infant spontaneously utters various sounds (at first) unrelated to the household language | 22 | |
| 9729972800 | one-word stage | child speaks in mostly single words | 23 | |
| 9729972801 | two-word stage | child speaks mostly in 2-word statements | 24 | |
| 9729972802 | telegraphic speech | early speech stage where a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns & verbs ex. "want juice" |  | 25 |
| 9729972803 | aphasia | impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage (Broca's or Wernicke's) | 26 | |
| 9729972804 | Broca's area | controls language expression & speech -left hemisphere, frontal lobe | 27 | |
| 9729972805 | Wernicke's area | controls language reception & comprehension -left temporal lobe | 28 | |
| 9729972806 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective | 29 | |
| 9729972807 | functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions | 30 | |
| 9729972808 | representative heursitics | to judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they represent particular prototypes | 31 | |
| 9729972809 | availability heuristrics | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory | 32 | |
| 9729972810 | belief bias | we more easily see the illogical of conclusions that run counter to our beliefs than those that agree with our beliefs | 33 | |
| 9729972811 | artificial intelligence | tries to stimulate human though processes, practical applications, etc. | 34 | |
| 9729972812 | neural network | computer circuits that mimic the brain's interconnected neural cells, performing tasks such as learning to recognize visual patterns and smells | 35 | |
| 9729972813 | language acquisition device (LAD) | a hypothetical module of the human mind posited to account for children's innate predisposition for language acquisition | 36 | |
| 9729972814 | Skinner | language was learned through environment | 37 | |
| 9729972815 | Chomsky | believed we had an innate ability to acquire language | 38 | |
| 9729972816 | linguistic relativity | the structure of a language affects the speaker's world view or cognition | 39 | |
| 9729972817 | thinking w/o language | 1. some ideas do not depend on language 2. we sometimes think in images and not words 3. our thinking affects our language, which then affects our thoughts NO language w/o thinking | 40 |
