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Chapter 10
Unit 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Symbol | Sensation that initates thought process |
| Concept | Scema of like info in brain |
| Image | Actual thought that pops into your head |
| Prototype | Most common image pulled from a concept |
| Rule | Behavior commonly linked to thought |
| Convergent | focus info to one single thought |
| Divergent | More than 1 solution |
| Metacognition | Thinking about thinking |
| Algorithm | Strategies that use systematic approach |
| Heuristic | Use of logic/common sense |
| Availability Heuristic | First logical response; gut instinct |
| Confirmation Bias | Response based upon previous success or anticipated response |
| Representativeness | Next best thing; next closest thing to confirmation response |
| Fixation/mental set | to be obsessed |
| Functional fixedness | brains inability to perceive an object in an unusual way |
| Overconfidence | problem solving difficulty due to ego |
| Framing | How question is worded |
| Belief perseverance | Confronted with info that goes against what you believe and still don't believe it |
| Representaion | take cognitive problem and make it physical |
| Flexibility | Brains ability to perceive an object in an unusal way to overcome functional fixedness |
| Recombination | trial and error |
| Sub-goals | to do in steps |
| Incubation/insight | subconcious problem solving |
| Reflexive | Make noises unattentionally |
| crying | When in distress; automatic |
| cooing | not related to stress |
| babbling | by choice, don't stop, within 1st year |
| phonemes | smallest parts of speech; no meaning |
| Morphemes | Smallest parts of speech with meaning |
| Holophrasic/one word | around 1 year |
| Syntax | Apply rules of grammer; age 3 |
| Overgeneralization | Applying rules of grammer wrong |
| Semantics | Comprehension of grammer |
| Linguistic relativity Hypothesis | Sometimes word choice leads to certain behavior |