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| the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
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| a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people |
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| a mental image or best example of a category; matching new items to the prototype provides a quick and easy method for including items in a category (as when comparing feathered creatures to a prototypical bird, such as a robin) |
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| a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem; contrasts with the usually speedier-but also more error prone-use of heuristics |
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| a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algoirthms |
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| a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions |
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| a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions |
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| the inability to see a problem from a new perspective; an impediment to problem solving |
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| a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past |
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| the tendency to think of things only in terms of their visual functions; an impediment to problem solving |
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| representativeness heuristics |
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| judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information |
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| estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common |
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| the tendency to be more confident than correct - to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgments |
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| the way an issue is posed; how an issue is ___ can significantly affect decisions and judgments |
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| the tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid |
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| clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited |
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| our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning |
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| in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit |
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| in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (Such as a prefix) |
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| in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others |
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| the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning |
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| the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language |
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| 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 |
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| the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words |
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| beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements |
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| early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - "go car" - using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting auxiliary words |
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| Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |
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