Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Language Acquisition Device, Receptive Aphasia, Noam Chomsky

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Algorithms: procedures, such as mathematical formulas, that automatically generate correct solutions to problems. Aphasia: the loss of ability to understand speech (receptive aphasia) or produce it (productive aphasia) Availability heuristic: a guideline used to make likelihood judgements based on how easily examples of that category of events come to mind, or are available in memory. Belief bias: the tendency to abandon logical rules and form a conclusion based on one"s existing beliefs. Bottom-up processing: perceptual processing that begins with the analysis of individual elements of the stimulus and works up to the brain"s integration of them into a unified perception. Concept: a mental category containing similar objects, people, and events. Confirmation bias: the tendency to seek out and favour information that reinforces our beliefs rather than to be open to disconfirming behaviour. Creativity: the ability to produce something that is both new and valuable. Deductive reasoning: reasoning from a general principle to a specific case.