A mental activity that involves understanding, manipulating, and communicating information.
What is thinking?
100
1. A problem solving strategy that usually leads to a solution; usually involves trying random solutions to a problem in a systematic way.
2. A strategy for making judgements & solving problems; rule of thumb.
What is an algorithm?
What is a heuristic?
100
The process of drawing logical conclusions from facts and arguments?
What is reasoning?
100
The process of making decision about a sample according to the population that the sample appears to represent.
What is representativeness heuristic?
100
The basic sound unit in a spoken language.
What is phoneme?
200
An object or act that stands for something else.
What is symbol?
200
1. A problem solving method that involves reducing the difference between the present situation and the desires one.
2. The tendency to arrive at a solution after a period of time away from the problem.
1. What is difference reduction?
2. What is incubation effect?
200
A form of thinking in which conclusions are inferred from premises; the conclusions are true if the premises are true.
What is deductive reasoning?
200
The process of making decisions based on certain ideas or standards held by the decision maker.
What is anchoring heuristic?
200
The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
What is morpheme?
300
A mental structure used categorize, objects, people, or events that share similar characteristics.
What is a concept?
300
A heuristic device in which a solution to a problem is found by evaluating the difference between the currect situation and the goal.
What is means-end analysis?
300
A state or assertion that serves as the basis for an argument?
What is premise?
300
The communication of ideas through sounds and symbols that are arranged according to the rules of grammar.
What is language?
300
The ways in which words and phrases are arranged into grammatical sentences.
What is syntax?
400
Planning, evaluating, and monitoring mental activities; thinking about thinking.
An original model on which others in the same category are patterned.
What is metacognition?
What is prototype?
400
1. The tendency to approach a new problem in a way that has been successful in the past.
2. The mental rearrangement of elements in a problem.
What is a mental set?
What is recombination?
400
A form of thinking that involves using individual cases or particular facts to reach a general conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
The psychology of language
What is psycholinguestics?
400
The study of meaning in language ; the relationship between language and the objects depicted by the language
What is semantics?
500
1. Directed thinking; thinking that is limited to available facts.
2. A thought process that attempts to generate multiple solutions to a problem; non-directed thinking.
1. What is convergent thinking?
2. What is divergent thinking?
500
A barrier to problem solving that involves the tendency to think of objects only in terms of their common uses.
What is functional fixedness?
500
the tendency to make decisions on the basis of information that is available in one's immediate consciousness.
What is availability heuristic?
500
The inborn ability of humans to acquire language
What is language acquisition device?
500
The formation of plurals and the past tense of irregular nouns and verbs according to the rules of grammar that apply to regular nouns and verbs; characteristic of the speech of young children.