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| 12635889618 | Cognition | Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating | 0 | |
| 12635889619 | Concept | A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people (similar to perceptual set) | 1 | |
| 12635889620 | Prototype | A mental image or best example of a category | 2 | |
| 12635889621 | Algorithm | A step-by-step procedure that leads to a definite solution. |  | 3 |
| 12635889622 | Heuristic | A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms. | 4 | |
| 12635889623 | Availability Heuristic | Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common | 5 | |
| 12635889624 | Representativeness Heuristic | Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information. | 6 | |
| 12635889625 | Insight | A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem | 7 | |
| 12635889626 | Confirmation Bias | A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence | 8 | |
| 12635889627 | Mental Set | A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past | 9 | |
| 12635889628 | Functional Fixedness | The inability to see a new use for an object | 10 | |
| 12635889629 | Intuition | Immediate and automatic feeling and thought | 11 | |
| 12635889630 | Trial and Error | Most fundamental method of problem solving | 12 | |
| 12635889631 | Overconfidence | Tendency to overestimate our judgement | 13 | |
| 12635889632 | Belief Perserverance | Clinging to your initial belief in something despite no evidence proving it | 14 | |
| 12635889633 | Framing | The way we present an issue, can impact judgement | 15 | |
| 12635889634 | Language | Spoken, written, signed words that we communicate into meaning | 16 | |
| 12635889635 | Phonemes | Smallest distinctive sound unit | 17 | |
| 12635889636 | Morphemes | Smallest unit of sound that holds meaning | 18 | |
| 12635889637 | Grammar | System of rules that enables us to communicate | 19 | |
| 12635889638 | Semantics | Rules for deriving meaning from words | 20 | |
| 12635889639 | Syntax | Rules to combine words | 21 | |
| 12635889640 | Receptive Language | In infants, the ability to understand what is said to them and about them | 22 | |
| 12635889641 | Productive Language | The ability to produce words | 23 | |
| 12635889642 | Babbling Stage | About 4 months, speech development unrelated to household language | 24 | |
| 12635889643 | One Word Stage (Holophrastic) | Around 1-2 years old, communicating in single worded phrases "ma" "uh" | 25 | |
| 12635889644 | Two Word Stage | Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statement, overgeneralizes wants and needs | 26 | |
| 12635889645 | Telegraphic Stage | Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram (go car) using mostly nouns and verbs, omitting auxiliary words | 27 | |
| 12635889646 | Critical Period Theory (Language Development) | The window on language development closes gradually in early childhood | 28 | |
| 12635889648 | Aphasia | Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding). | 29 | |
| 12635889649 | Brocas Area | Controls language expression-area of the frontal lobe in left hemisphere that directs muscle movements involved in speech | 30 | |
| 12635889650 | Wernickes Area | Language comprehension, left temporal lobe | 31 | |
| 12635889651 | Noam Chomsky | Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition, stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language, humans have an inborn native ability to develop language | 32 | |
| 12635889653 | Belief Bias | The tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid | 33 | |
| 12635889654 | Convergent | Ideas come together | 34 | |
| 12635889655 | Divergent | Ideas come apart | 35 | |
| 12635889656 | Linguistic Determinism | Whorfs hypothesis that language determines the way we think, we cannot think things if we cannot say them |  | 36 |
