Flashcards in Chapter 10 Deck (27)
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Cognition
Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
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Concepts
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
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Prototypes
Mental image or best example of a category
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Algorithm
Step by step procedure that guarantees a solution
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Heuristic
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; faster, but more error prone
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Insight
A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
All of a sudden the answer comes to you
Provides sense of satisfaction
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Confirmation Bias
Tendency to search fork formation that confirms one's preconceptions
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Fixation
The inability to see a problem from perspective
An impediment to problem solving
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Mental Set
Tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
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Functional Fixedness
The inability to solve a problem, because it is viewed only in terms of usual function(activity)
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Representative Heuristic
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well the seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes
May lead one to ignore other relevant information
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Availability Heuristic
Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory, if instances come readily to mind(maybe due to vividness), we presume such events as common
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Overconfidence
The tendency to be more confident than correct
To overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgements
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Framing
The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgements
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Belief Bias
The tendency for one's pre existing beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid or vice versa
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Language
Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
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Phoneme
In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
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Morpheme
In a language, the smallest unjt that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word
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Grammar
In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
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Semantics
The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language - study of meaning
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Syntax
The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
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Babbling Stage
Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds unrelated to household language
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One-Word Stage
The stage in speech development, from about age 1-2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words
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Two-Word Stage
Beginning about age 2, the stage of speech development during which a child speaks mostly two worded statements
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Telegraphic Speech
Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegraph - using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting auxiliary words
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Noam Chomsky
He had a theory that humans are biologically predisposed to acquire language
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