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| all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information |
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| a mental grouping of similar objects, events, and people |
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| a best example of a specific category |
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| methodical, logical procedure that, while slow, guarantees success |
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| time efficient, allow us to make judgements to solve problems, but do not guarantee accuracy |
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| people search for information that supports their preconception |
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| inability to approach a problem in a new way |
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| example of fixation. tendency to approach a problem with the mind-set of what has worked previously |
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| type of fixation. ability to thinking of only the familiar functions for object without thinking of alternative uses |
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| representativeness heuristic |
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| tendency to judge a likelihood of things in terms of how well they match particular prototypes (short, likes poetry, round glasses, you think professor but could be garbage man) |
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| tendency to judge the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match particular prototypes (when a man from one ethnicity commits terroism, we associate the whole ethnic group with this bad man) |
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| when people still believe something even though it has been proven wrong |
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| the way a question is posed |
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| smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language |
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m= meaning
smallest unit of language that carries meaning |
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| rules that enable us to understand others |
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| rules to derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language. (-ed = past tense) |
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| rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language |
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| 1-2 yrs. children speak in single words |
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| age 2. children speak mostly in 2 word sentances |
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| 2 years old. uses 2 words mostly noun and verbs in the right order |
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| language impairment as result of damage to Broca's area, and wernicke's area |
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| left frontal lobe, controls motor ability to produce speech |
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| left temporal lobe, involved in language comprehension and expression |
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| Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |
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