7B Flashcards

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The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Cognition

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A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people

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Concept

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A mental image or best example of a category. Provide a quick and easy message for sorting items in the categories

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Prototype

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Methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem

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Algorithm

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Simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently

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Heuristic

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I sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem

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Insight

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The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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Creativity

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A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

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Confirmation bias

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The inability to see your problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set

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Fixation

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Tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often the weather has been successful in the past

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Mental set

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The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions

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Functional fixedness

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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent particular prototypes

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Representativeness heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory

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Availability heuristic

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The tendency to be more confident than correct – to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments

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Overconfidence

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Clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were were formed has been discredited

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Belief perseverance

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And effort list, intermediate automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

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Intuition

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The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgements

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Framing

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Or spoken, written, or signed words and the way it was we combine them to communicate meaning

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Language

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Language, the smallest distinctive sound unit

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Phoneme

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The smallest unit that carries meaning; maybe a word or part of a word

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Morpheme

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A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

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Grammar

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The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language

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Semantics

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Rules for combining words into a grammatically sensible sentences in a given language

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Syntax

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The beginning at about four months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds

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Babbling stage

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The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words

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One word stage

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Beginning about age two, The stage and speech development during which a child speaks mostly two word statements

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Two word stage

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Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs’s

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Telegraphic speech

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Whorfs hypothesis that language determines the way we think

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Lynguistics determination