Intro to Psychology Chapter 9

cognition

concept

prototype

algorithm

heuristic

insight

confirmation bias

fixation

mental set

functional fixedness

representativeness heuristic

judging 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

availability heuristic

overconfidence

framing

belief bias

belief perseverance

language

phoneme

morpheme

grammar

semantics

syntax

babbling stage

telegraphic speech

Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think

aphasia

impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to wernicke's area (impairing understanding)

intuition