Glossary C

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categorial perception

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discontinuous categories of speech sounds, see McGurk

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categorial syllogism

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syllogism involving information of categorical memberships

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causal inference

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judgements about causation

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the central executive …

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… both coordinates attentional acitivities and governs responses

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cerebellum

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bodily coordination, balance, muscle tone, procedural memory

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change blindness

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inability to detect changes (“asking for the way”)

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characteristic features

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qualities that describe the prototype, but are not neccesary for it

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child-directed speech

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materize

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coarticulation

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occurs when e.g. phonemes are produced overlappingly

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cocktail party problem

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how to track only one conversation

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cognitive maps

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internal representations of our physical world

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cognitive psychology

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study of how people perceive, learn, remember, think about information

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cognitivism

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the belief that much of human behavior can be explained in terms of how we think

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comprehension proccesses

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used to make sense of texts as a whole

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conditional reasoning

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drawing conclusions based on if-then-clauses

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cones

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less numerous, color, effective only in bright light

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conjunction search

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looking for a particular combination of features

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connectionist models

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accodring to connectionist models, we handle many cognitive operations simultaniously through a network distributed in the brain

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consciousness

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feeling of awareness + content of awareness

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consolidation

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integrating new info into stored info

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constructive

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prior experience affects how we recall stuff and what we recall from memory

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constructive perception

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we construct perception on the basis of sense data and other information

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content morphemes

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words that convey meaning

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context effects

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influence of context on perception

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contextualism

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belief that intelligence must be understood in its real-world context

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contralateral

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from one side to another

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controlled processes

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available to and even require conscious control

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convergent thinking

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narrowing down multiple possibilities to arrive at a single best answer

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converging operations

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the use of multiple approaches and techniques to address a problem

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cooing

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the infant’s oral expressions exploring vowel sounds

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core

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refers to the defining features of something to be considerate an example of a category

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creativity

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producing something original and worthwhile

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culture-fair

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equally appropriate to members of different cultures

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culture-relevant teste

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e.g. intelligent tests