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Thinking and Language

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show the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating  
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concept   show
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show a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to the prototype proveds a quick and easy method for including items in a category  
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show a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier - but also more error prone - use of heuristics  
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show a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems effiecently; usually speedier but also more prone the algorithms  
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insight   show
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show a tendency ti search for information that confirms one's preconceptions  
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fixation   show
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show a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, especially a way that has been sucessful in the past but may not be helpful in solving a new problem  
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show the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving  
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show juidging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information  
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show estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common  
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show the tendency to be more confident than correct - to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgments  
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show the way an issue is posed; how an issue is frames can significantly affect decisions and judgments  
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belief bias   show
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belief perserverance   show
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artificial intelligence (AI)   show
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computer neural networks   show
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show our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we cobine them to communicate meaning  
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phoneme   show
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show in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)  
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show in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others  
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semantics   show
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show beginning at 3 to 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language  
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show the stage in speech development, from about age 1 10 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words  
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two-word stage   show
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telegraphic speech   show
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linguistic determinism   show
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