Vocab
Thinking
Language Development
Solving Problems
Lanuage
100
judging the likelihood of things in terms of how they seem to represent
What is representativeness heuristic
100
mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people
What is concept
100
beginning at 3 to 4 months the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds
What is babbling stage
100
the mentodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
What is Algorithm
100
our spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
What is language
200
tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions
What is functional fixedness
200
mental activities associated with thinking
What is cognition
200
beginning about 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two- word statements
What is two-word stage
200
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently
What is Heuristic
200
in spoken language the smallest distinctive sound unit
What is phoneme
300
tendency to approach a problem in a particular way
What is mental set
300
mental image or best examples of a category
What is prototype
300
stage in speech development from about age 1 to 2
What is one word stage
300
a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
What is Insight
300
in a language a system of rules
What is grammar
400
computer circuits that mimic the brains interconnected neural cells
What is computer neural networks
400
people that study these mental activities including the logical and sometimes illogical ways
What is cognitive psychologists
400
early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram
What is telegraphic speech
400
Tendency to search for information that confirms ones preconceptions
What is Confirmation Bias
400
set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes
What is semantics
500
the science of designing and programming computer systems
What is artificial intelligence
500
as we think we form
What is concepts
500
what age is when language develops rapidly into complete sentences
What is age 24 months
500
an impediment to problem solving
What is Fixation
500
the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
What is syntax