Thinking
Language
Learning
Wild Card
100
to mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information
What is cognition?
100
the smallest units of sound (vowels and consonants).
What is a phoneme?
100
a stimulus which triggers a response naturally, before/without any conditioning
What is unconditioned stimulus?
100
to our tendency to search for information which confirms our current theory, disregarding contradictory evidence.
What is confirmation bias?
200
a mental grouping of similar objects, events, states, ideas, and/or people, etc.
What is a concept?
200
the units of meaning, i.e. words and meaningful parts of words
What is a morpheme?
200
The dog begins to salivate upon hearing the tone
What is conditioned response?
200
The tendency to get stuck in one way of thinking; an inability to see a problem from a new perspective.
What is fixation?
300
the best example of a concept
What is a prototype?
300
understanding the language you hear and see
What is receptive language?
300
the idea that mental processes are much less important than behavior
What is behaviorism?
300
when we estimate the likelihood of an event based on how much it stands out in our mind
What is availability heuristic?
400
a step by step strategy for solving a problem, methodically leading to a specific solution.
What is an algorithm?
400
He believed that even syntax and grammar seem to be inborn
Who is Chomsky?
400
In Pavlov's experiment, the noise by itself at the beginning is called:
What is a neutral stimulus?
400
the tendency to hold onto our beliefs when facing contrary evidence.
What is belief perserverance?
500
a short-cut, step-saving thinking strategy or principle which generates a solution quickly (but possibly in error).
What is a heuristic?
500
the idea that our specific language determines how we think
What is linguistic determinism?
500
Classical conditioning represents this form of learning
What is associative learning?
500
the focus, emphasis, or perspective that affects our judgments and decisions
What is framing?
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