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Psychology Ch 9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Insight | sudden and often realizing of an answer to a problem and contrasts with strategy-based solutions |
| Functional Fixedness | only think and function one way |
| Intuition | effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought |
| Prototype | mental image and best example |
| Availability Heuristic | estimating chance of events based on memory ability |
| Two-word Stage | Beginning age 2 and a child speaks mostly in two word phrases |
| Framing | how a question is posed |
| Morpheme | smallest unit that has meaning |
| Cognition | mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
| Heuristic | Simple thinking strategy that allwos us to make judgements |
| Representativeness Heuristic | judging the likelihood of things by how they represent or match a prtotoype |
| Algotrithm | methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees a solution |
| Fixation | can't see from other perspectives |
| Mental Set | approaching a problem in a set way |
| Overconfidence | having more confidence than if you were right |
| Belief Preserverance | sticking to initial belief even after being proved wrong |
| Concept | mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, and people they are general ideas |
| Confirmation Bias | look for evidence to proof your point |
| Linguistic Determinism | Whorf's hypothesis where language determines thought |
| Broca's Area | controls language expression and in the left hemisphere of the frontal lobe |
| Wernicke's Area | controls language reception, comprehension, and expression and it is in the left temporal lobe |
| Grammar | in language and it is a rule system and it enables understanding and communication with others |
| Aphasia | impairment of language which is in the left hemisphere to the Broca's or Wernicke's area |
| Language | spoken, written or sign and it is a way to communicate meaning |
| Telegraphic Speech | early speech and it is cavemanish and it is speaking without adjectives |
| One-word Stage | age 1 to 2 and it is speaking in mostly one word phrases |
| Syntax | rules for combining correct sentences in language |
| Phoneme | in language and it is the smallest difference in sound units |
| Babbling Stage | beginning in 1 month and is speech development |
| Semantics | set of rules that derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences. it is the study of meaning |
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