Ch. 9 Thinking and Language Flashcards

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cognition

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

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metacognition

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cognition about our cognition; keeping track of and evaluating our mental processes

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concept

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mental grouping of similar objects, ideas, or people

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prototype

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mental image or best example of a category

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algorithm

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

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heuristic

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simple thinking strategy - mental shortcut - that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently

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insight

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sudden realization of a problem’s solutions

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confirmation bias

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

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fixation

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in cognition, inability to see a problem from a new perspective

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mental set

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tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past

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intuition

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effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasonign

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representativeness heuristic

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judging the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes

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availability heuristic

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judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory

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overconfidence

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tendency to be more confident than correct - overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements

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belief perserverance

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

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framing

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

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nudge

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framing choices in a way that encourages people to make beneficial decisions

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creativity

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ability to produce new and valuable ideas

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convergent thinking

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narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution

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divergent thinking

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expanding the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that diverges in different directions

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language

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our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

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phoneme

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in a language, smallest distinctive sound unit

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morpheme

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in a language, smallest unit that carries meaning

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grammer

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

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babbling stage
stage in speech development, beginning around 4 months, during which an infant spontaneously utters various sounds that are not all related to the household language
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one-word stage
stage in speech development, from about 1 to 2, during which child speaks mostly in single words
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two-word stage
beginning at about 2, during which a child speaks mostly in 2 word sentences
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aphasia
impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage to either Broca's area or to Wernicke's area
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Broca's area
frontal lobe of brain area, usually in left hemisphere, helps control language expression by directing the muscle movements involved in speech
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Wernicke's area
brain area, usually in left temporal lobe, involved in language comprehension and expression
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linguistic determinism
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think
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linguistic relativism
idea that language influences the way we think