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Thinking
Factors
Factors cont.
Language
Stages
100
The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is cognition
100
A tendency to search for information that confirms preconceptions
What is Confirmation bias
100
Estimating the likelihood of events based of their availability in memory
What is Availibility heuristic
100
beginning at 4 months, the infants spontaneously utters various sounds. Babbling is not imitation of adult speech
What is Babbling stage
200
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ides or people
What is Concepts
200
The inablility to see a problem from a new perspective
What is Fixation
200
The tendency to be more confident than correct
What is Overconfidence
200
The smallest distinctive sound unit in a language
What is Phomene
200
beginning at or around first birthday, a child starts to speak one word at a time and is able to make family memebers understand him
What is one word stage
300
A mental image or the best example of a category
What is Prototype
300
A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way
What is Mental set
300
before the second year a child starts to speak in two word sentences.
What is Two word stage
400
A methodical logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving particular problem
What is Algorithms
400
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions
What is Functional fixedness
400
The tendency for ones preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning sometimes making invalid conclusions seem valid
What is Belief bias
400
A set of rules by which we derive meaning from Morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language
What is Semantics
400
Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram, using nouns and words
What is Telegraphic speech
500
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes
What is Representativeness heuristics
500
Clinging to ones initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
What is Belief perserverence
500
The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
What is Syntax