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 Cognition

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The mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating

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Concepts

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Mental groupings of similar things

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Proto types

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Mental images or examples of a category

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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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determining one best solution

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Divergent thinking

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Expand number of solutions

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Components of creativity

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  1. expertise
  2. Imaginative thinking skills
  3. Aventures some personality
  4. Intrinsic motivation
  5. Creative environment
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Expertise

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Oh well developed base of knowledge

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Imaginative thinking skills

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Recognize patterns and connections

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Adventuresome personality

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New experience, overcome obstacles, tolerate risk

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Intrinsic motivation

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interest, satisfaction, challenge > External pressure

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Creative environment

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Around creative people

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Algorithms

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step-by-step procedures that guarantee a solution
EX. Trying to pick a lock by trying every number combination

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Heuristics

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Short cuts and thinking

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insight

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Sudden realization of a solution

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Confirmation bias

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Looking for evidence to confirm our theories instead of refute them

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Mental set

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approaching a problem with the mindset of what has worked for us in the past

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intuition

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Fast automatic unreason thoughts

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representativeness heuristic

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judging things by how well they match their prototype (May ignore relevant info)
-ex. Truck driver

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Availability heuristic

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Estimating likelihood of events based on how mentally available they are
-ex. Best quarterbacks equal the most recent ones

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Overconfidence

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More confident than correct

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Belief perseverance

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Cling to believes even with contrary evidence

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Framing

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The way a sentence is formed to get a certain response

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Fixation

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Don’t know how to look or solve problems from another point of view

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phonemes

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smallest distinctive sound in language
40 in English

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Morphemes

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smallest unit that carries meaning
-100,000 in english 

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Grammar

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Language rules

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stages of Language development

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  1. babbling stage (4 mo)
  2. Babbling starts to sound like language (10 mo)
  3. One word stage (12 mo)
  4. Two word phase (24 mo)
  5. Starts making sentences (24+)
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productive language

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ability to produce words

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receptive language

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recognizing dif. speech sounds

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one word stage

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1-2 yrs

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syntax

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structure of sentences

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over generalization

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applying a rule to every situation in grammar incorrectly ( kids/ new language learners)

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Noam Chonskey

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Said that everyone is born with the ability to learn grammar

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Inborn universal grammar theory

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Everyone is born with the ability to learn grammar

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Critical periods of language learning

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( best) 0-7, (better) 7-12, (good) 12-18

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Language determinism

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Language determines how we think

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Nature versus nurture and language

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Have to be in an environment that exposes us to language

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Skinners theory

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We learn with rewards

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language acquisition device (Chomsky)

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The ability to pick up language quickly in our brains

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Semantic grammar

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The meaning of a word
- Can change based on context

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Telegraphic speech

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to word stage 2 yrs

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functional Fixedness

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using an object in a way it wasn’t intended to be used

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