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15 Cards in this Set
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Cognition
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All the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating
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Algorithm
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Methodical logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
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Heuristics
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Simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently
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Confirmation Bias
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Tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions
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Representativeness Heuristics
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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes; may lead to ignore other relevant information
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Availability Heuristic
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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
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Overconfidence
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To over estimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgments
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Belief Bias
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Tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning.
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Belief preserverance
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Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
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Phoneme
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The smallest distinctive sound unit
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Morpheme
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The smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word
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Grammar
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A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
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Semantics
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Set of rules by which we drive meaning from morphemes, words and sentences in a given language; also the study of meaning
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Syntax
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The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
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Linguistic determinism
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whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think
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