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Heuristics

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Mental rules of thumb that permit us to make decisions and judgments in a rapid and efficient manner.

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Availability heuristic

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A cognitive rule of thumb in which the importance or probability of various events is judged on the basis of how readily they come to mind.

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Representativeness heuristic

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A mental rule of thumb suggesting that the more closely an event or object resembles typical examples of some concept or category, the more likely it is to belong to that concept or category.

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Anchoring-and- Adjustment Heuristic

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A cognitive rule of thumb for making decisions in which existing information is accepted as a reference point but then adjusted (usually insufficiently) in light of various factors.

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Escalation of Commitment

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The tendency to become increasingly committed to bad decisions even as losses associated with them increase.

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Stages of creative thinking

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  1. Preparation
  2. Incubation
  3. Illumination
  4. Evaluation
  5. Revision
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Convergent thinking

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Critical thinking in which an individual uses linear, logical steps to analyze a number of already formulated solutions to a problem to determine the correct one or the one that is most likely to be successful.

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Divergent thinking

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Creative thinking in which an individual solves a problem or reaches a decision using strategies that deviate from commonly used or previously taught strategies.

Aka lateral thinking

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Language

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A system for expressing or communicating thoughts and feelings through speech sounds or written symbols

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Features of linguistic competence

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  1. Knowledge of sounds of letters and combining them to make words
  2. Knowledge of grammar, syntax & rules of language
  3. Storage in long-term semantic memory
  4. Knowledge to use speech to have intended effect on others
  5. Knowledge of rules to interpret speech from others
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Psycholinguistics

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Study of behaviour of using language and ways in which behaviour is influenced by language

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Phoneme

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A speech sound that plays a meaningful role in a language and cannot be analyzed into smaller meaningful sounds

Eg: ‘p’ in tap - plays a role to separate the word from tan, tag, tad

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Syllable

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Smallest unit of speech perception

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Theories of language development

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Social learning: combination of operant conditioning and imitation

Nativist theory: Acc. to Chomsky, humans have a language-acquisition-device [LAD] with an innate intuitive grasp of grammar

Cognitive theory: combination of innate & learning; children possess certain information-processing abilities or strategies that they use in acquiring language

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Basic components of language development

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Phonological development—development of the ability to pronounce the sounds and words of one or more languages

Semantic development—learning to understand the meaning of words

Acquisition of grammar—the rules by which words are arranged into sentences in a given language

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Linguistic relativity hypothesis by Whorf

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View that language shapes thought; people who speak different languages may perceive the world in different ways, because their thinking is determined, at least in part, by the words available to them

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Thinking

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Cognitive behaviour in which ideas, images, mental representations, or other hypothetical elements of thought are experienced or manipulated.

Includes imagining, remembering, problem solving, daydreaming, free association, concept formation, and many other processes.

(a) It is covert—that is, it is not directly observable but must be inferred from actions or self-reports
(b) it is symbolic—that is, it seems to involve operations on mental symbols or representations, the nature of which remains obscure and controversial

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Concept

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An idea that represents a class of objects or events or their properties

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Algorithm

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A well-defined procedure or set of rules that is used to solve a problem or accomplish a task or that is used for conducting a series of computations.

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Functional fixedness

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The tendency to perceive an object only in terms of its most common use

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Chomsky’s theory of grammar

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Surface structure of a sentence is the actual word order of the words in a sentence.

Deep / abstract structure is an underlying form that specifies the meaning of the sentence.

Transformational rules tell us how we can change one structure into another.

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Mental sets

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Tendency to keep repeating solutions that worked in other situations

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Base-rate fallacy

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When provided with both individuating information, which is specific to a certain person or event, and base rate information, which is objective, statistical information, we tend to assign greater value to the specific information and often ignore the base rate information altogether.

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Morpheme

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Smallest unit of meaning in language

Eg: Walked [walk; ed]

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Gambler’s fallacy

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Aka Monte Carlo fallacy; when an individual erroneously believes that a certain random event is less likely or more likely to happen based on the outcome of a previous event or series of events.

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Phones

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Speech sounds

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Characteristics of a creative person

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  • prefer complexity
  • psychodynamically complex and greater personal scope
  • reject suppression
  • more assertive & dominant
  • more independent in judgements
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Connotative meaning

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Emotional & evaluative meaning of a word / concept

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Pragmatics of language

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Speech or writing to have an impact on others

Depends on context and status of people we are addressing

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Aphasia

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Impairment in speech comprehension and/or production that can be permanent or temporary.

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Apraxia

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Inconsistent production of sound and rearrangement maybe due to a stroke or progressive illness

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Dysarthria

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Weakness of speech muscle caused by neuronal damage.

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Cognitive universalism of language

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By Heider

Concepts are universal and influence the development of language

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Language acquisition stages

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Babbling - 4 months
Holophrase - 1 y/o
Telegraphic speech - 2 y/o
Between 2 and 3 years, child’s vocabulary expands exponentially. Sentences increase in length and complexity.
By the age of 3, children begin to follow the rules of grammar without any instruction.
Overgeneralization or overregularization in which children apply grammatical rules without making appropriate exceptions.

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