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| Cognition | The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and comunicating |
| Artificial Intelligence | The science of designing and programing computer systems to do intelligent things and to simulate human thought processes |
| Confirmation Bias | A tendancy to search for information that confirms ones perceptions |
| Syntax | The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language |
| General Intelligence | A general intelligence factor that Sparman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefor measured by every task on an intelligence test |
| Savant Syndrome | A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill |
| One-word Stage | The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words |
| Content Validity | The extent to which a test samles the behavior that is of interest |
| Validity | The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
| Standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group |
| Achievement Test | a test designed assess what a person has learned |
| Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
| Emotional Intelligence | the ability to percieve, express, understand, and regulate emotions |
| Intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations |
| Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision of Binet's origonal intelligence test |
| Intelligence Test | a method for asessing an individuals mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores |
| Linguistic Determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |
| Two-word Stage | beginning at about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements |
| Grammar | in language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others |
| Morphene | in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word |
