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| Internal manipulation of knowledge and ideas |
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| Activities that underlie all forms of thought |
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| Rules for combining sounds to make words |
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| Rules for combining words to make sentences |
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| Rules used to communicate meaning |
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| Smallest significant sound units of speech |
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| the smallest units in a language that carry meaning |
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| What do categories allow us to do? |
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| Group objects that most people agree belong together |
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| Levels for categorical hierarchies |
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Defining features
Family resemblance
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| Set of features necessary to make objects acceptable members of a category |
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| Core features that category members share |
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| Best or most representative member of a category |
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| Specific examples of category members that are stored in long-term memory |
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| Step by step rules or procedures that, guarantee a solution to a problem |
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| Rules of thumb we use to solve problems |
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| Heuristic that involves devising actions/means that reduce the distance between the current starting point and the desired end |
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| Heuristic that involves starting at the goal state and moving backward toward the starting point to see how the goal state can be reached |
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| Heuristic that involves trying to find a connection between the current problem and some previous problem that you have solved successfully |
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| Tendency to seek out in using information that supports or confirms a prior decision or belief |
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| Tendency to cling to initial beliefs when confronted with disconfirming evidence |
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| Representativeness heuristic |
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| Arrive at a decision by comparing the similarity of the object or event to the average member of each class |
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| Estimate the odds of some event occurring on the basis of how easily examples come to mind |
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