PSY 1305 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias, Availability Heuristic
24 Mar 2017
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Cognition: all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Concept: a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Assist: algorithm: a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem, insight: a sudden realization of a problem"s solution. Confirmation bias: a tendency to search for information that supports our. Hinders: preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past. Fixation: an inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective. Phonemes: in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. Morpheme: the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word. Infants normally start developing receptive language (ability to understand what is said to and about them) around 4 months age. Our brain"s critical period for language learning is in childhood, when we can absorb language structure almost effortlessly.
