Cpt 9 Flashcards
(44 cards)
Concept
A mental grouping of similar objects events ideas or people
Cognition
Mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating
Prototype
A mental image or best example of a category
Algorithm
A methodical logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
Heuristic
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms
Insight
A sudden realization of a problems solution; contrasts with strategy based solutions
Confirmation bias
A tendency to search for information that support what we believe and ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Mental set
A tendency to approach a problem in a certain often one that has helped before
Intuition
An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit , conscious reasoning
Availability heuristic
Estimating the Lilly hood of events based on their availability in memory
Overconfidence
The tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
Belief perseverance
Clinging to ones initial conceptions after the bias on which they were formed has been discredited
Framing
The way an issue is posed how an issue is framed can significantly affect decision and judgements
Language
Our spoken written or signed words and ways we combine them to communicate the meaning
Phoneme
In a language the smallest distinctive sound unit
Morpheme
In a language the smallest unit that carries a message; may be a word or a part of a word
Grammer
A set of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and understand others
Babbling stage
Beginning at about 4 months the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
One-word stage
The stage for about age 1-2 where the child speaks mostly in single words
Two-word stage
Beginning about age 2 where in speech development the child speaks in mostly two word statements
Telegraphic speech
Early speech where a child speaks mostly like a telegram - “go car” using mostly nouns an verbs
Aphasia
Impairment of language
In what part of the brain is there normally damage in patients with aphasia?
Left hemisphere damage either to Broca’s area or to wernicks area
What does damage to the Broca’s area cause?
Impairing speaking because that’s where the muscle movements involved with speech are directed -left hemisphere frontal lobe
