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thought and language Flashcards

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information-processing system

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mechanisms for recieving information, representing it with symbols, and manipulating it

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thinking

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the manipulation of mental representation

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reaction time

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the time between the presentation of a stimulus and an overt response to it

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concepts

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categories of objects, events or ideas that have common properties

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prototype

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a member of a natural concept that possesses all of our most of its characteristic features

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propositions

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a mental representation that expresses a relationship between concepts

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schemas

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generalizations about categories of objects, places, events and people

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scripts

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mental representations of familiar sequences of activity

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mental models

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sets of propositions that represent people’s understanding of how things look and work

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images

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mental representations of visual information

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cognitive map

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a mental model that represents familiar parts of the environment

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reasoning

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the process by which people generate and evaluate arguments and reac conclusions about them

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formal reasoning

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a set of rigorous procedures for reaching valid conclusions

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algorithm

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systematic procedures that cannot fail to produce a correct solution to a problem

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logic

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a system of formulas for drawing valid conclusions

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informal reasoning

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the process of evaluating a conclusion based on the evidence available to support it

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heuristic

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mental shortcut or rules of thumb

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anchoring bias

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a shortcut in the thought process that involves adding new information to existing information to reach a judgment

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representativeness heuristic

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a mental shortcut that involves judging whether something belongs in a given class on the basis of its similarity to other members of that class

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availability heuristic

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a mental shortcut through which judgments are based on information that is most easily brought to mind

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mental set

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the tendency for old petterns of problem solving to persist

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functional fixedness

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the tendency to think about familiar objects in familiar ways

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confirmation bias

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the tendency to pay more attention to evidence in support of one’s hypothesis about a problem than to evidence that refutes that hypothesis

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artificial intelligence

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the field that studies how to program computers to imitate the products of human perception, understanding and thought

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creativity

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the capacity to produce original solutions or novel compositions

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divergent thinking

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the ability to generate many different solutions to a problem

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convergent thinking

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the ability to apply the rules of logic and what one knows about the world to narrow down the possible solutions to a problem

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utility

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in decision making, any subjective measure of value

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expected value

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the total benefit to be expected of a decision if it were repeated on several occasions

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language

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symbols that are used as a means of communicating

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grammar

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a set of rules for combining the symbols, such as words, used in a given language

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phoneme

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the smallest unit of sound that effects the meaning of speech

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morpheme

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the smallest unit of language that has meaning

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syntax

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the set of rules that govern the formation of phrases and sentences in a language

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semantics

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rules governing the meaning of words and sentences

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surface structures

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the order in which words are arranged in sentences

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deep structure

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an abstract representation of the underlying meaning of a given sentence

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infanct vocalization

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early sounds, such as babblings, made by babies

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babbling

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repetitions of syllables; the first sounds infants make that resemble speech

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