Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language
14502418685 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | ![]() | 0 |
14502418686 | Concept | a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people | ![]() | 1 |
14502418687 | Prototype | a standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!) | ![]() | 2 |
14502418688 | algorithm | a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | ![]() | 3 |
14502418689 | Heuristic | a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | ![]() | 4 |
14502418690 | Insight | A cognitive form of learning involving the mental rearragnment or restructuring of the elements in a problem to achieve an understanding or the problem and arrive at a solution | ![]() | 5 |
14502418691 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | ![]() | 6 |
14502418692 | Confirmation bias | a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions | ![]() | 7 |
14502418693 | fixation | the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set | ![]() | 8 |
14502418694 | Mental Set | a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past | ![]() | 9 |
14502418695 | Functional fixedness | the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving (Is a shoe just a shoe?) | ![]() | 10 |
14502418696 | Representative heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevent information | ![]() | 11 |
14502418697 | Availability heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common | ![]() | 12 |
14502418698 | Overconfidence | total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | ![]() | 13 |
14502418699 | Belief Perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | ![]() | 14 |
14502418700 | Intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) | ![]() | 15 |
14502418701 | Framing | formulation of the plans and important details | ![]() | 16 |
14502418702 | Language | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | ![]() | 17 |
14502418703 | Phoneme | (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language | ![]() | 18 |
14502418704 | Morpheme | minimal meaningful language unit | ![]() | 19 |
14502418705 | Grammar | studies of the formation of basic linguistic units | ![]() | 20 |
14502418706 | Semantics | the study of language meaning | ![]() | 21 |
14502418707 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | ![]() | 22 |
14502418708 | Babbling Stage | beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household lanuage. | ![]() | 23 |
14502418709 | One-word Stage | the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words | ![]() | 24 |
14502418710 | Two-word stage | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | ![]() | 25 |
14502418711 | Telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words | ![]() | 26 |
14502418712 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think | ![]() | 27 |
14502418713 | Noam Chomsky | United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928) | ![]() | 28 |
14502418714 | B.F Skinner | pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments | ![]() | 29 |
14502418715 | Benjamin Whorf | Concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought | ![]() | 30 |