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| thinking, knowing, remembering |
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| mental grouping of similar things (chair concept) |
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| metanl image, example; matching to prototype= easy way to group things |
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| logical rule that guarantees solving problem; may take long time |
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| simple thinking strategy; speedier but more error prone |
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| search for info to confirm one's belief |
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| fixed on old view; inability to see problem from new perspective |
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| approace problem in a particular way; successful in the past |
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| think of things in terms of their usual functions |
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| representativeness heuristic |
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| judging liklihood in terms of how well it matches prototype |
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| ready in mind = more common event |
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| way an issue is posed; can affect decisions/judgments |
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| preexisting beliefs distort logical reasoning; valid = invalid, invalid = valid |
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| initial conceptions ever after being discredited |
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| smallest distinctive sound |
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| smallest unit that carries meaning |
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| rules that allow us to understand/communicate |
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| rules to combine words into sentences |
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| rules which we derive meaning |
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B.F. Skinner
-reinforcement, imitation, and associations
-nurture
-critics view: develop too fast to be learning |
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Noam Chomsky
-biologically programmed
-language aquisition device
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-biological and social
-humans don't have innate capacity for aquiring rules of language
-develop through interaction rather than automatically |
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linguistic relativity hypothesis
-language determines the way people think |
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