The process wherby we acquire and knowledge | ||
A flexible of communication that uses sounds,rules, gestures, or symbols to convey information | ||
The bsic sound units of language that indicates changes in meanng | ||
The smallest meaningful units of speech, such as simple words, prefixes, and suffixes | ||
The language rules that determine how sounds and words can be combined and used to communicate meaning within a language | ||
The rules for arranging words into grammatical phrases and sentences | ||
The critria for assigning meaning to the morphemes in a language | ||
A linguist who greatlt influenced psy understanding of syntax and semantics | ||
The particular wods and phrases used to make up a sentence | ||
The underlyinog meaning of a sentence | ||
A nonverbal mental representation of a sensory experience. | ||
Beleived that his skills in visualizig abstract concepts led to his extrodanary insights | ||
A mental category for classifying objects, people, or experiences | ||
Argued on the concept of a bird with feathers, wings and two-feet with the model bird or protype of a bluebird or sparrow | ||
According to Rosch, a mental model containing the most typical features of a conlcept | ||
An early spokesperson for the position of the linguistic determinism | ||
The idea that patterns of thinking determined by the specific language one speaks | ||
Tested the languague of being Male-dominated when give the word to fill in the blank and get stories of boys compared to leavinfg it blank and get a mixture. It s just a forced sterotype | ||
Crosscultural psyc shows how cultural differences can affect perception, cognition, and behavior | ||
Proffesor dealt with a parrot the understood he was saying and argued that his actions reflect reasoning, choice, and to some extent thinking. | ||
Sterotyped communications about an animals current state | ||
Raised chimpanzee as a deaf child with sign language and to see if they understod. When indeed it was possible telegraphic speech | ||
Encountered the sam ewith an ape at which learned cvocabulary as a 5 yrs. after 2 decades using before and after and feelings | ||
An early stage of one-and two- yrs that omits words that are no essential t the emaing of a phrase | ||
The first step in solving a problem- defing the problem | ||
A step-by-stp method of problem solving that gurantees a correct solution | ||
Rules of thumb that help in simplyfing and solving problems, although they do not gurantee a correct solution | ||
A heuristic problem-solving strategy in which each step moves you progressively closer to the final gaol | ||
Intermediate, more manageable goals used in one heuristic strategy to make it easire to reach the final goal | ||
A heuristic strategy hat ims to reduce the discrepancy between the current situation and desired goal at a number of intermediate points | ||
A heuristic trategy in ehich one works background- from the desirees goal to the given conditions | ||
The tendency to perceive and approach problems in certain ways | ||
The tendency to perceive only a limited number of uses for an object , thus unterfering eith the process of problem solving | ||
A problem-solving strategy in which an individual or a group produces numerous ideas evaluates them only after all ideas have been collected | ||
A rational decision-making model in which choices are systematically evaluated on variuos criteria | ||
Aheuristic by which a new situation is judged on the basis of its resemblance to a sterotypical model | ||
A heuristic by which a judgement or decision is based information that is most easily retrieved from memory. | ||
Thetendency to look for eveidence in that would disprove a belief | ||
The oerspective or phrasing of information that is used to make a decision | ||
Studied making among operates at nuclkear power plants. Stress if emergency situation causes dcision making to dterminate, sometime leading to panic | ||
The tendency to view outsomes as inevitable and predicatable after we know the outcome | ||
Thinking about alternative realities and things that never happened |
Cognition
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