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614216375Cognitionmental activities like thinking, memory remembering
614216376PrototypeBest example of a category. (Ford for a truck) (robin, not penguin for a bird)
614216377Insight"A-ha!" moment
614216378Functional fixednessInability to see multiple uses of an object. (sock?)
614216379Whorf's linguistic relativityLanguage affects how we think and vice versa. Since the Hopi tribe don't have past tense verbs, they don't think about the past.
614216380Two word stage (aka telegraphic speech)Want milk. My baba. Go poopoo.
614216381Algorithm?Methodical slow problem-solving method Computers use them. Always accurate, but slow.
614216382Heuristic"short cut" to solving problems. Ex: unscramble "eqeun" Start by putting q and u together.
614216383Confirmation biasWe pay attention only to evidence that fits our view.
614216384Availability heuristicEvent more likely to happen if it's easy to imagine (like tornadoes)
614216385Representatives heuristicIt's more likely to be true if it fits our stereotype. We assume that it is likely that an Asian male is good at math.
614216386PhonemesSmallest unit of sound in a language. "chug" has 3 phonemes. Ch, u, g
614216387MorphemeSmallest unit of a word having meaning (ex.suffix) preheating has 3 morphemes.
614216388GrammarSystem of rules - helps us communicate.
614216389SyntaxDeals with order of words. White House or House White?
614216390Chomsky's view on language developmentWe're hard wired to have language. (nature) We have an inborn language acquisition device.
614216391Babbling stage of language development3-10 months - babies speak in phonemes (ba ba)
614216392Belief perseveranceSticking to one's belief even after been discredited. (Cowboys are better than the Vikings (even though Cowboys lost).)
614216393Divergent thinking"out of box" thinking.
614216394Convergent thinkingStandard way of thinking. (sometimes the best)
614216395Belief perseveranceClinging to your beliefs even after they have been discredited. Cowboys are the best even if they are 11 and 5.
614216396RecallAbility to retrieve memories in which the persom must retrieve information earlier (Essay)
614216397RecognitionMeasure of memory in which the person has to identify items previously learned
614216398PrimingActivation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.
614216399Mood- congruent memoryTendency to recall experiences that are consisten with one's current mood
614216400Why do we forget?Encoding failure, storage decay, interference
614216401Proactive interferenceOld information gets mixed with the new (When 2nd period makes you forget 5th period)
614216402Retroactive interferenceNew information gets mixed with the old (When 7 period makes you forget 6th period)
614216403Elizabeth LoftusStudied eyewitness testimony and believed that faulty questions could change memories (reconstructive memory)
614216404Misinformation effectIncorporating misleading information into one's memory of an even
614216405Skinner's view on language development?We learn language via shaping. (nurture) Social learning theory of language.

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