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Chapter 9 Module (Thinking and Language) Flashcards

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Cognition

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All the 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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A group of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

Gives information with very little cognitive effort.

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Prototype

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A mental image, or bet example of what is in the concept.

The closer something is to the prototype, the faster we recognize it as the concept.

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Cognitive Strategies for Problem Solving

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Trial + Error

Algorithms

Heuristics

Insight

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Algorithms

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Step by step procedures that garuntee a solution.

ex. searching every single aisle at the grocery store

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Heuristics

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Mental shortcuts, simpler thinking strategies that are less time consuming.

ex. Searching in the produce section at the grocery store.

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Insight

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Abrupt true-seeming and satisfying solution.

Sudden burst in the right temporal lobe.

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Cognitive Blocks to Problem Solving

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Confirmation Bias

Fixation
Mental Set

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Confirmation Bias

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Eagerly seeking evidence for our ideas and against others.

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Fixation

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The inability to come to a fresh perspective; getting stuck in one way of thinking.

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Mental Set

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A type of fixation.

Using the mindset of what has worked for us in the past.

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Intuition

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An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought.

The opposite of explicit, conscious reasoning.

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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.

Leads us to ignore other relevant information.

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Availability Heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory.

If instances come readily to mind (vividness), we presume such events are common.

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Overconfidence

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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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Belief Perseverence

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

Mixed evidence will be interpreted as belief proving - motivated reasoning.

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Framing

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The way an issue is posed.

Significantly affects decisions and judgments.

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Using Intuition

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1) Recognition born of experience (implicit knowledge)

2) Usually adaptive

3) Widely used

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Creativity

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The ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable.

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Convergent Thinking

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Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution.

Single correct answer.

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5 Components of Creativity (Sternberg)

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1) Expertise

2) Imaginative thinking skills

3) A venturesome, determined personality

4) Intrinsic motivation

5) A creative environment

6) Develop your expertise

7) Allow time for incubation

8) Set aside time for the mind to roam freely

9) Experience other cultures and ways of thinking

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Divergent Thinking

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Ability to consider many different options and to think in novel ways.

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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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Phenome

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Smallest distinctive sound units in a language.

ex. bat has 3 - b - a - t,

ex. that has 3 - th - a - t

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Morphemes

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Smallest lanuage units that carry meaning.

Ex. words, prefixes, and suffixes

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Grammar

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A language’s set of rules that enable people to communicate.

Guide semantics and syntax.

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Semantics

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Meaning from sounds.

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Syntax

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Ordering of words into sentences.

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Universal Grammar

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The beleif that humans have a built-in predisposition to learn grammar rules.

We are not born with a built-in specific language or specific set of grammatical rules.

ex. children usually learn nouns first

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Receptive Language

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The ablity to understand what is said to and about them.

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Productive Language

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The ability to produce words.

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Stages of Speech Development in Babies

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1) Babbling - 4 months

2) Babbling resembles houshold language - 10 months

3) One-word stage - 1 year

4) Two-words stage - 2 years (telegraphic speech)

5) Rapid development into complete sentences - 2 years +

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Telegraphic Speech

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The early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram (using mostly nouns and verbs).

Exemplifying syntactical ordering.

ex. go car

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Critical Period

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After age 7 - those who have not been exposed to any language lose their ability to master any language.

Learning a new language as an adult - accent of our native langugage and imperfect grammar.

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Aphasia

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Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca’s area (impaired speaking) or to Wernicke’s area (imparied understanding).

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Broca’s Area

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A frontal lobe brain area - usually in the left hemisphere - that helps control language expression by directing the muscle mvoements involved in speech.

Damage - can’t speak, can sing and understand

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Wernicke’s Area

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A brain area, usually in the left temporal lobe, involved in language comprehension and expression.

Damage - can’t understand, can only speak meaningless entences.

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Linguistic Determinism

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Widely believed to be too extreme.

Whorf

Hypothesis that language determines the way we think.

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Linguistic Relativism

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The idea that language influences the way we think.

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Bilingualism Effect on Thought

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Different senses of self in different languages.

Expression of different emotions and concepts in different languages.

Enhanced social skills by being able to shift to understand another’s perspective.

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Impose Constraints

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The tendency to believe there are more constraints then there actually are.

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Conjunction Fallacy

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Impossible for more specific case to be more probable than the more general case.

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Metaphor

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Using language from one domain to talk about another (non-literally).

Can be used as a framing tactic.

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