Mental Grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
What is Concept
100
Sudden & often novel realization of the solution of a problem
What is Insight
100
The smallest distinctive sound unit in language
What is Phoneme
100
Impairment of language, caused by left hemisphere damage to Broca's area or Wernicke's area
What is Aphasia
100
Tendency to be more confident than correct
What is Overconfidence
200
The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is Cognition
200
Inability to see a problem from a new perspective
What is Fixation
200
The smallest unit that carries meaning in language
What is Morpheme
200
This part of the brain controls language expression
What is Broca's Area
200
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
What is Belief Perseverance
300
A mental image or best example of a category
What is prototypes
300
Tendency to approach a problem in one particular way
What is Mental Set
300
A system of rules that enables us to communicate in language
What is Grammar
300
This part of the brain controls language reception
What is Wernicke's Area
300
Judging likelihood of things in the terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes
What is Representativeness Heuristic
400
Logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem; contrasts with the usual speedier more error proven
What is Algorithms
400
Tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions
What is Functional Fixedness
400
Rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentence in a given language
What is Syntax
400
Is involved in reading aloud, receives visual information from the visual area & recodes it into an auditory form to derive its meaning
What is Angular Gyrus
400
Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
What is Availability Heuristic
500
Simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments & solve problems efficiently
What is Heuristics
500
Tendency to search for info that supports our preconception & to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
What is Confirmation Bias
500
Speech stage where children speak like a telegram....example "go car".....mostly using nouns & verbs
What is Telegraphic Speech
500
hypothesis that different language imposes different conceptions of reality....language determines the way we think
What is Linguistic Determinism Hypothesis
500
1. The stage in speech development where a child speaks mostly in single words, 1-2 years old
2. The stage in speech development where a child speaks mostly two-word statements, age 2