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Concepts

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Are mental grouping of similar objects events ideas or people

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Cognition

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The proces by which the sensory input is transformed

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Prototypes

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Is a mental image or best example of a category

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Algorithm

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Each letter in each position

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Heuristic

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A simple thinking strategy

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Insight

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

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Confirmation bias

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A tendency to search for information that confirms ones preconceptions

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

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Representativeness heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability

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Availability heuristic

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To be more confident than you should be

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Overconfidence

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The way an issue is posted how an issue is framed can significantly affect decision and judgments

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Framing

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The tendency for ones prexistinsting beliefs to distract logical reasoning

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Belief bias

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The way we communicate with others

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Language

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The smallest distinctive sound unit

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Phoneme

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

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Morpheme

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

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Grammar

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Rules for combined words

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Syntax

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Beginning at 4 months the infant spontaneously ulters various sounds

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Babbling stage

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In born universal grammar he believed that language will not rally occur given by nature

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Noam Chomsky