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6A: Think, Lang, Int

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Cognition   thinking, problem solving, decision-making, knowing, remembering & communicating.  
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Creativity   the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas  
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Convergent Thinking   thinking to discover a single established correct answer  
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Divergent Thinking   thinking that produces many ideas or alternatives  
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Concepts   mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.  
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Prototypes   best, most perfect example of a concept  
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Trial-and-error   guess-and-check; may not find solution  
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Algorithm   methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solution  
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Heuristic   shortcuts to solve problems  
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Insight   "a-ha" moment to solve problems  
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Confirmation Bias   tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions.  
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Fixation   inability to see a problem from a new perspective  
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Mental Set   tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially a way that has been successful in the past but may or may not be helpful in solving a new problem.  
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Functional Fixedness   to think of things only in terms of their usual functions  
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Representativeness Heuristic   decision made b/c it seems to match preexisting mental categories  
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Availability Heuristic   judgment or decision is based on information that is most easily retrieved (available in memory)  
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Overconfidence   tendency to be more confident than correct—to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.  
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Framing   the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.  
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Belief Bias   tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid.  
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Belief Perseverance   clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.  
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Artificial Intelligence   science of designing and programing computer systems to do intelligent things and to stimulate human thought processes, such as intuitive reasoning, learning, and understanding language.  
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Language   spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning  
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Phoneme   smallest distinctive sound unit.  
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Morpheme   smallest unit that carries meaning  
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Grammar   system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.  
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Semantics   set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning.  
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Syntax   rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences  
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Pragmatics   impact of contextual cues on word and sentence meanings  
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Babbling Stage   infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language. 3-4 months  
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One-Word Stage   during which a child speaks mostly in single words age 1 to 2 years  
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Two-Word Stage   child speaks mostly two-word statements. 2 years old  
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Telegraphic Speech   Uses only nouns and verbs during two-word stage "Go car"  
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Overgeneralization   Adding improper endings or beginnings to words b/c they do not know grammar rules yet like "go-ed" instead of "went"  
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Linguistic Relativism/Determinism   Whorf's hypothesis that language determines (or at least influences) the way we think.  
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Intelligence   ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.  
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g-factor   From Spearman; general intelligence - common underlying intelligence  
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s-factor   From Spearman; specific intelligence for specific abilities  
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savant   condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.  
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analytical intelligence   ability to break problems down into component parts, or analysis, for problem solving  
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creative intelligence   bility to deal with new and different concepts and to come up with new ways of solving problems  
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practical intelligence   dealing with ill-defined, everyday tasks with many solutions, street smarts  
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intelligence quotient (IQ)   mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 units (thus, IQ= ma/ca x 100)  
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Cognitively disabled   condition of limited mental ability  
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Gifted   Refers to superior IQ combined with demonstrated or potential ability in such areas as academic aptitude, creativity, and leadership  
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Emotional Intelligence   ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions  
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Aptitude Test   designed to predict a person's future performance  
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Achievement test   designed to assess what a person has learned  
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surface structure   the particular words and phrases used to make up a sentence  
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deep structure   the underlying meaning of a sentence  
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