Cognition
This term refers to the mental processes involved in thinking, remembering, and problem-solving.
What is cognition?
A step-by-step procedure that guarantees a solution.
What is an algorithm?
Paying attention only to information that agrees with your beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
The smallest units of sound in a language.
What are phonemes?
A one-year-old saying "juice" to mean "I want juice" is using this type of speech.
What is one-word speech?
A mental category used to organize information.
What is a concept?
A mental shortcut that helps solve problems quickly.
What is a heuristic?
Continuing to believe something even after it has been disproven.
What is belief perseverance?
The smallest units of meaning in a language.
What are morphemes?
According to B.F. Skinner, children learn language through this process.
What is reinforcement?
The best or most typical example of a category.
What is a prototype?
An "Aha!" moment that suddenly reveals a solution.
What is insight?
Being more confident than the evidence supports.
What is overconfidence?
The word "unhappy" contains this many morphemes.
What are two morphemes?
Noam Chomsky proposed that humans are born with this language-learning mechanism
What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
This type of thinking generates many possible solutions and is linked to creativity.
What is divergent thinking?
Choosing the shortest line at a store because it looks fastest is an example of this.
What is a heuristic?
Only seeing a paperclip as office supplies instead of a tool to open a phone tray.
What is functional fixedness?
The system of rules used to organize language.
What is grammar?
This brain area is responsible for speech production.
What is Broca's area?
This type of thinking focuses on finding one correct answer.
What is convergent thinking?
This is a quick feeling or judgment made without conscious reasoning.
What is intuition?
Using the same strategy repeatedly even when it no longer works.
What is a mental set?
This stage of language development comes first.
What is babbling?
This hypothesis states that language influences the way people think about the world.
What is linguistic relativity?