After taking two years of college economic courses, Lionel thinks he knows enough to become a millionaire. What is this an example of?
What is overconfidence
100
"Mental shorcuts" is aka?
What is heuristics
100
how many steps are in the information processing model
five
100
What is the earliest stage of language?
babbling
200
smallest unit of sound
What is phoneme
200
What is semantics?
rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences
200
Judge probability of an event by how easily you ?can recall previous occurrences of that event
What is availability heuristics
200
study mental processes by which the information
humans receive from their environment is
modified, made meaningful, stored, retrieved,
used, and communicated to others
What is cognitive psychologists
200
What is Chomsky's theory
we have the ability to speak and when exposed to the right environment that skill emerges
300
structure of a sentence
What is syntax
300
defining an idea, issue or reality based upon context
framing; framing effect
300
Estimate the probability of an event, not by starting from scratch but by adjusting an earlier estimate
What is anchoring heuristics
300
language determines the way we think
What is linguistic device
300
What does LAD stand for?
Language Acquisition Device
400
What is language
spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
400
Inability to see an object as having ?a function other than its usual one
What is functional fixedness
400
Estimate the likelihood of an event by comparing how similar its essential features are to our prototype of the event.
What is representative heuristic
400
What is the circle of thought?
describe, elaborate, decide, plan, act
400
What did Whorf claim?
language directly influences perception
500
When can you easily master grammar of a second language?
childhood
500
Christmas is to holiday as ______ is to ______
prototype; category
500
Because Ken is 6‘6“, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college's basketball team. This is an example of ______
representative heuristic
500
What is the connection between insight and the brain?
every time there is insight there is a burst of activity in the RIGHT TEMPORAL lobe