Thinking and Language
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| show | mental activity that involves understanding, manipulating, and communicating information.
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| show | an object or an act that stands for something else.
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| show | a mental structure used to categorize objects, people, or events that share similar characteristics.
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| show | an original model on which others in the same category are patterned.
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| show | a problem solving strategy that eventually leads to a situation; usually involves trying random solutions to a problem in a systematic way.
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| Heuristic | show 🗑
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| show | a problem solving method that involves reducing the difference between the present situation and the desired one.
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| show | a heuristic device in which a solution to a problem is found by evaluating the difference between the current situation and the goal.
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| Incubation Effect | show 🗑
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| show | the tendency to approach a new problem in a way that has been successful in the past
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| Functional Fixedness | show 🗑
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| show | thinking that is limited to available facts
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| show | a thought process that attempts to generate multiple solutions to a problem.
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| show | the process of drawing logical conclusions from the facts and arguments.
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| show | a form of thinking in which conclusions are inferred from premises; the conclusions are true if the premises are true.
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| show | a statement or assertion that serves as the basis for an argument
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| Inductive Reasoning | show 🗑
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| show | the tendency to look for information that confirms one’s preconceived notions
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| show | the process of making decisions about a sample according to the population that the sample appears to represent
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| Availability Heuristic | show 🗑
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| show | the process of making decisions based on certain ideas or standards held by the decision maker
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| Framing Effect | show 🗑
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| Language | show 🗑
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| Phoneme | show 🗑
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| show | the smallest meaningful unit of language, such as prefix or suffix
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| show | the formation of plurals and the past tense of irregular nouns and verbs according to rules of grammar that apply to regular nouns and verbs; characteristic of the speech of young children
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| show | according to Chomsky, the inborn ability of humans to acquire language
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