Cognition & Learning Part 2 Flashcards

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“Either with us or against us” way of thinking, no middle ground

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False Dichotomy

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Based off of framing

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False Dichotomy

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3
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Person’s pre existing beliefs distort their logical reasoning

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Belief Bias

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People to cling to a belief or initial conception even after the information that led to the formation of the belief is discredited

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Belief Perserverance

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5
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Cognitive Bias favoring the first information offered

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Anchoring Effect

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Form of concepts about a large group based on specific information

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Inductive Reasoning

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Forming concepts or thoughts about specific group based on larger group information

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Deductive Reasoning

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Science of designing and programming computer systems to do intelligent things and to simulate human thought process

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Artificial Intelligence

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Computer circuits that stimulate the brain’s interconnected neural cells and perform task such as learning to recognize visual patterns smells

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Computer Neural Networks

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Spoken, written, or signed words and how we combine them to communicate meaning

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Language

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Smallest units of sounds in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the langauge

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Phonemes

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12
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How many phonemes are in the english language

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40

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13
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Smallest unit of language that convey’s meaning

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Morphemes

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

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Grammar

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Aspect of grammar that specifies that rules used to derive meaning from morpherems, words, and sentences

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Semantics

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16
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Aspect of grammar that specifies that rules for combining words into grammatical sentences in each language

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Syntax

17
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Knowing when to use certain kinds of language in social situaitons

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Pragmatics