Glossary B

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Base rate

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Refers to the prevalence of an event within its population of events

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Babbling

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The infant’s preferential production largely of those distinct phonemes that are characteristic of the infant’s own language

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Basic level

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(Apple) degree of specificity of a concept that seems to be a level within the hierarchy that is preferred to other levels, sometimes termed natural level

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Behaviorism

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Psychology should focus only on the relation between observable behavior, on the one hand, and environmental events or stimuli, on the other

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Binaural presentation

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Presenting the same two messages, or sometimes just one message, to both ears simultaneously

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Binocular depth cues

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Depth cues based on information from both eyes

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Bipolar cells

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Connect ganglion cells and the third layer of retinal cells

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blindsight

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traces of visual perceptual ability in blind areas

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bottom-up theories are

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data-driven

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bounded rationality

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belief that we are rational, but with limits