| A | B |
|---|
| Divergent | thinking produces many answers |
| convergent | thinking produces one answer |
| acquisition of language | combination of biological and environmental influences |
| phonology | basic sounds of consonants and vowels |
| Savant | A condition in which a person has developmental limitations but in one area the person is an expert or exceptionally brilliant |
| Semantics | Using the words in a sentence or the context in order to define the word |
| Heuristics | refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery |
| Cultural-Familial Retardation | Limitation of brain function caused by being in an impoverished environment |
| Algorithms | A way of thinking by using a set of rules to get to a solution |
| Functional Fixedness | cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-III) | most widely used test of one's mental ability that measures verbal and performance intellect |
| Mental Age | One's mental ability measured in years |
| Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale | Test that measure's one's mental ability through cognitive tasks |
| Chomsky | believed that all children are born with an inherited mental program to learn language |
| pearman’s two-factor theory | Spearman’s perspective that individuals have both a general intelligence and a number of specific abilities |
| Howard Gardner | multiple intelligence |
| phonemes | basic speech sounds |
| reliability and validity | two characteristics of personality tests |
| babbling | sounds a baby at the age of 6 months makes |
| introvert | quiet and reserved |
| extrovert | loud and outgoing |
| one year old | single word stage of language acquisition |
