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Chapter 9 - Thinking and Language Flashcards

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What is thinking/cognition?

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Refers to all mental processes that involve knowing, understanding, remembering, and communicating

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What is a concept?

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The mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people

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What is a prototype?

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When you form concepts with mental images or typical examples

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What is an algorithm?

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Step by step procedures or formulas

Ex. baking, surgery

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What is trial and error?

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When multiple attempts are made to reach a solution

Ex. cooking, writing music, fixing a broken item

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What is a heuristic?

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Thinking strategies that allow us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently

Ex. stereotypes, or throwing out a stat to prove your point

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What is insight?

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Involves a sudden novel realization of a solution to a problem

Ex. Trivia answer, idea for a group project

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What part of the brain activates when insight strikes?

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The right temporal cortex

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is confirmation bias?

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A tendency to search for information that confirms a personal bias

Ex. anti vax, vaccinations

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is fixation?

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An inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is functional fixedness?

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Think of things only in terms of their usual function

Ex. matchbox not being a candle holder

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is a mental set?

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Predisposed to solve a problem the way you have in the past

Ex. J F M A _ ?

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is intuition?

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Your gut feeling

Ex. siblings or dating?

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is a representative heuristic?

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Judging the likelihood of things or objects in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, a particular prototype

Ex. stereotypes, racism/sexism

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is an availability heuristic?

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Judge information on how mentally available it is and so it must be commonplace

Ex. media influences

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is overconfidence?

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Overconfidence is a tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements

Ex. sense of direction

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is framing?

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Decisions and judgments may be significantly affected depending upon how an issue is framed or presented

Ex. numbers and percentages

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Obstacles in Solving Problems

What is belief perseverance?

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The tendency to cling to our beliefs in the face of contrary evidence

Ex. abusive relationships

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What is language?

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Our spoken, written, or gestured words - the way we communicate meaning to ourselves and others

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How many words after age 1 do we learn (on average)?

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3,500 words a year -
60,000 words by the time we graduate highschool

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Components of Language

What are phonemes?

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Sets of basic sounds -
869 in human speech and 40 in English

Ex. Beat, 3 changes in sound

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Components of Language

What are morphemes?

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Combinations of phonemes with meaning

Ex. Preview, 2 in “pre” and “view”

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Components of Language

What is grammar?

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System of rules to communicate and understand the language

Ex. commas, capitalization

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Components of Language

What are semantics?

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Rules to derive meaning

Ex. “ed” means past

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Components of Language

What is a syntax?

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Order of words in a sentence

Ex. an adjective comes before a noun, “grey fox” not “fox grey”

26
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When do we learn language?

What is the Babbling Stage?

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Beginning at 4 months, the infant spontaneously utters various sounds, the beginning of productive language

Ex. “ah-goo”

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When do we learn language?

What is the One-Word Stage?

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Beginning at or around our first birthday, child starts to speak one word at a time

Ex. “Dada” or “dog”, which may mean look at the dog out there

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When do we learn language?

What is the Two-Word Stage?

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Before the 2nd year, child starts to speak in two-word sentences

Ex. “Go car”, means I would like to go for a ride in the car

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When do we learn language?

What is telegraphic speech?

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Child at two-word stage speaks like a telegram

Ex. “Go car”, means I would like to go for a ride in the car

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When do we learn language?

What are Longer phrases?

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After telegraphic speech, (approx. age 3) children begin uttering longer phrases with syntactical sense

Ex. “Mommy go get ball”

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Explaining Language Development

What is operant learning?

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Skinner believed that language development may be explained on the basis of learning principiles such as association, imitation, and reinforcement

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Explaining Language Development

What is inborn universal grammar?

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Chomsky opposed Skinner’s ideas and suggested that the rate of language acquisition is so fast that it cannot be explained through learning principles, and thus most of it is inborn

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What is the critical period?

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Childhood - children never exposed to any language (spoken or signed) by about age 7 gradually lose their ability to master any language

34
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What happened to Genie?

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Wild Child, neglected in her room until she was 13

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How do we read language?

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  1. Visual Cortex
  2. Angular Gyrus
  3. Wernicke’s area
  4. Brocas area
  5. Motor cortex
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How do we read language?

What is the visual cortex?

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Recieves written words as visual stimulation

37
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How do we read language?

What is the angular gyrus?

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Transforms the visual representations into auditory code

38
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How do we read language?

What is Wernicke’s area?

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Interprets the auditory code

39
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How do we read language?

What is Broca’s area?

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Controls your speech

40
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How do we read language?

What is the motor cortex?

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Pronounces the words

41
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Language and The Brain

What is aphasia?

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Impaired use of language as a result of damage to Broca’s Area, Wernicke’s Area, and/or the Angular Gyrus

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Language and The Brain

What does damage to Broca’s area cause?

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Left frontal lobe, damage here is a struggle to speak, but can comprehend language

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Language and The Brain

What does damage to Wernicke’s area cause?

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Left temporal lobe, damage here means speaking only meaningless words

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Language and The Brain

What does damage to the Angular gyrus cause?

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Can’t read or read out loud, but can speak and understand

45
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What is linguistic determinism?

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Whorf suggested that language determines the way we think

Ex. Hopi people do not have the past tense for verbs

46
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What is the bilingual advantage?

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Expanded language = expanded thinking (longer attention spans)

47
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What is a cognitive map?

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Our thoughts without using language - our mental representations of the spacial environment, the world as we believe it to exist

Ex. your route from your locker to your classes

48
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What are the common cognitive skills in humans and apes?

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  1. Concept Formation
  2. Insight
  3. Problem Solving
  4. Culture

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