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MTA PSYC 1011 Chapter Eight: Thinking, Reasoning, and Language

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Algorithm   show
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Availability Heuristic   show
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show Intentional vocalization that lacks specific meaning.  
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Bilingual   show
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show A systematic error in thinking.  
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Concept   show
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Decision Making   show
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Dialect   show
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Extralinguistic Information   show
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show The way a question is posed that influences people's decisions.  
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Functional Fixedness   show
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show Allows an infinite number of unique sentences to be created by combining words in new ways.  
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Hindsight Bias   show
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show A system of signs invented by children with hearing loss or difficulty who receive no language input.  
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Language   show
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Language Acquisition Device   show
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show The belief that all thought is represented verbally, which as a result means our language defines our thinking.  
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Linguistic Relativity   show
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show The tendency of getting stuck in a specific problem-solving strategy, which inhibits our ability to create new strategies.  
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Metalinguistic   show
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show The smallest meaningful unit of speech.  
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Nativist   show
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show An early stage in language development when children use single-word phrases to convey thought.  
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Phoneme   show
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Phonetic Decomposition   show
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Problem Solving   show
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show Judging the likelihood of an event by basing it on how similar it is to a known situation (stereotype).  
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Semantics   show
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show Language developed by members of a community with hearing loss that use visual rather than auditory communication.  
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Social Pragmatics   show
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show Grammatical rules that govern how words are used meaningfully.  
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show Any mental activity or processing of information, such as learning, remembering, perceiving, communicating, believing, and deciding.  
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show A reading strategy that involves identifying common words based on their appearance without having to sound them out.  
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