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People
Language
Problem Solving
Decision Making
100
Distinguished between a sentence's surface structure and its deep structure.
What is Noam Chomsky
100
Set of rules that determine how words are combined to make phrases and sentences.
What is syntax
100
Every possible solution is explored. Guarantees problems will be solved eventually, although can be time consuming.
What is Algorithms.
100
Involves judging the probability of an event by how easily examples of the event come to mind. (Drunk driving.)
What is availability heuristic
200
Found that subjects reported they heard the word "heel" even though the correct sound vibration ever reached their ears.
What is Warren and Warren
200
Study of meaning in language
What is semantics
200
"Rules of thumb"
What is Heuristics
200
Occurs when you estimate an event's probablility of occurence then make adjustments to it based on additional information.
What is anchoring heuristic
300
He and other learning theorists proposed that language learning takes place similar to other forms of learning.
What is B.F. Skinner
300
Broader term than syntax; it includes both syntax and phonetics.
What is grammar
300
Putting the problem aside for a while and engaging in some other activity before returning to the problem.
What is Incubation
300
Thinking that produces many different correct answers to the same problem or question.
What is Divergent thinking.
400
He proposed that thinking is merely subvocal speech and is not a mental activity.
What is John Watson
400
Study of the psychological mechanisms related to the acquisition and use of language.
What is photolinguistics
400
Solution to an earlier problem is used to help solve current problem.
What is Analogy
400
Requires you to make a choice about the likelihood of uncertain events.
What is Decision making
500
Researcher that reported that even laboratory rats appear to form cognitive maps.
What is E.C. Tolman
500
The smallest unit of language that has meaning.
What is Morphemes
500
Computer programs that solve specific problems( most use algorithms.)
What is Expert systems or artificial intelligence
500
Allows attractive attributes to compensate for unattractive attributes.
What is Compensatory Models