Language development
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Language
Thinking
Solving problem and making decisions
100
beginning at 4 months, the infant spontaneously utters various sounds. Babbling is not an imitation of adult speech
What is babbling stage
100
Whorfs hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
What is Linguistic determinism?
100
Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.
What is Language?
100
A term covering all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
What is cognitition
100

a sudden realization of a problem’s solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions

What is insight

200
beginning around a child's first birthday, he starts to speak one word at a time and is able to make family members understand him.
What is One-Word Stage
200

identified the 5 components of creativity

Who is Robert Sternberg?

200
The smallest distinct sound unit.
What is Phoneme?
200
The tendency for ones pre-existing beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seeming invalid
What is belief bias
200
Clinging to ones initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
What is Belief perserverance.
300
Before the second year a child starts to speak in two-word sentences.
What is Two-Word Stage
300

 the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

What is creativity?

300
The smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word.
What is Morpheme?
300
The way an issue is posed; can significantly effect decisions and judgements
What is framing
300
The tendency to be more confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of ones beliefs and judgements.
What is Overconfidence?
400
Children begin uttering longer phrases with syntactical sense, and by early elementary school they are employing humor.
What is Longer Phrases
400

a mental image or best example of a category

What is prototype?

400
The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning.
What is Semantics?
400
Mental group of similar objects, events, ideas or people
What is concept
400

Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes

What is representativeness heuristic 

500

When a child talks like a telegram

What is telegraphic language

500

narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution (type of thinking)

Convergent thinking

500
The beginning four months when speech development Ian infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language.
What is The babbling stage?
500
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently
What is heuristics
500
Tendency to approach a problem in a particular way; usually a way that has been successful in the past.
What is Mental set?
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