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13482421122CognitionMental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating0
13482421123ConceptA mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people (similar to perceptual set)1
13482421124PrototypeA mental image or best example of a category2
13482421125AlgorithmA step-by-step procedure that leads to a definite solution.3
13482421126HeuristicA simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms.4
13482421127Availability HeuristicEstimating 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 common5
13482421128Representativeness HeuristicJudging 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
13482421129InsightA sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem7
13482421130Confirmation BiasA tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence8
13482421131Mental SetA tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
13482421132Functional FixednessThe inability to see a new use for an object10
13482421133IntuitionImmediate and automatic feeling and thought11
13482421134Trial and ErrorMost fundamental method of problem solving12
13482421135OverconfidenceTendency to overestimate our judgement13
13482421136Belief PerserveranceClinging to your initial belief in something despite no evidence proving it14
13482421137FramingThe way we present an issue, can impact judgement15
13482421138LanguageSpoken, written, signed words that we communicate into meaning16
13482421139PhonemesSmallest distinctive sound unit17
13482421140MorphemesSmallest unit of sound that holds meaning18
13482421141GrammarSystem of rules that enables us to communicate19
13482421142SemanticsRules for deriving meaning from words20
13482421143SyntaxRules to combine words21
13482421144Receptive LanguageIn infants, the ability to understand what is said to them and about them22
13482421145Productive LanguageThe ability to produce words23
13482421146Babbling StageAbout 4 months, speech development unrelated to household language24
13482421147One Word Stage (Holophrastic)Around 1-2 years old, communicating in single worded phrases "ma" "uh"25
13482421148Two Word StageBeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statement, overgeneralizes wants and needs26
13482421149Telegraphic StageEarly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram (go car) using mostly nouns and verbs, omitting auxiliary words27
13482421150Critical Period Theory (Language Development)The window on language development closes gradually in early childhood28
13482421151"Genie"A girl who was locked up for 14 years and when she was found, she had missed the critical period where she could have learned language so she could not speak and was extremely socially delayed29
13482421152AphasiaImpairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).30
13482421153Brocas AreaControls language expression-area of the frontal lobe in left hemisphere that directs muscle movements involved in speech31
13482421154Wernickes AreaLanguage comprehension, left temporal lobe32
13482421155Noam ChomskyLanguage 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 language33
13482421156Nativist TheoryYou have the ability to pick up language which is inborn, but it has to be natured34
13482421157Belief BiasThe tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid35
13482421158ConvergentIdeas come together36
13482421159DivergentIdeas come apart37
13482421160Linguistic DeterminismWhorfs hypothesis that language determines the way we think, we cannot think things if we cannot say them38
13482421161Bilingual AdvantageThe advantage of bilingual individuals to inhibit one language while using the other and inhibit attention to irrelevant information39
13482421162Nondeclarative MemoryMental picture of how you do something, implicit memory40
13482421163Mental PracticeMentally rehearsing future behaviours, activates the same part of your brain as if you were really doing the action41
13482421164Artificial intelligence - PracticalRobots that can sense their environment.42
13482421165Artificial intelligence - TheoreticalComputers that mimic human thinking.43
13482421166Artificial intelligence - Computer Neural NetworksMimic the brain's interconnected neural networks.44
13482421167GadnerTaught Washoe the chimp 132 signs by age 4 and 181 by age 32. Speech evolved from gestures.45

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