| A | B |
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| A word's exact definition | Denotative Meaning |
| Study of Human information processing | Cognitive Psychology |
| The personal meaning of a word | Connotative meaning |
| An idea that represents a class of objects or events | Concept |
| the process of classifying info into meaningful categories | Concept formation |
| A class of objects with more than one feature in common | Conjuctive Concept |
| Classifying objects based on relationship to something else | Relational Concept |
| classifying objects with at least one feature | Disjunctive Concept |
| The study of meaning in words and language | Semantics |
| A strategy for identifying and evaluating problem solutions | Heuristic |
| inability to see new uses for familiar objects | Functional Fixedness |
| Reasoning moving from specific to general information | Inductive Reasoning |
| Reasoning moving from general to specific information | Deductive Reasoning |
| A choice is given greater weight if it seems to be representative of what we already know | Representative Heuristic |
| The way a problem is stated | Framing |
| Impulsive thought that doesn't rely on clear reasoning | Intuition |
| Selecting information that is relevant to a problem | Selective Encoding |
| Generate as many possible answers as you can | Divergent thinking |
| Thinking with a direct answer in mind | Convergent thinking |
| Judging the possibility of an event based on what comes readily to the mind | Availability heuristic |
| Fixation on one particular way to solve a problem | Mental set |
| Individuals tending to look for evidence that supports what they believe is right. | Confirmation Bias |
| Sentences made up of two or three words. | Telegraphic speech |
| Overusing a regulation in language | Overgeneralization |
| Getting the same message across with the wrong grammar usage. | Descriptive Grammar |
| The proper way to use grammar. | Prescriptive Grammar |
| States that one's language influence the way they think. | Linguistic Relativity Theory |
| Appropriate word order | Syntax |
| Expressing complete thoughts with one word. | Holophrastic stage |
| Speech utilizing basic sounds of language. | Babbling Stage |
| The study of language. | Psycholinguistics |
| A part of the human brain that allows them to soak up language. | Language Acquisition Device |
| Human ability to think on one's own problem solving strategies | Metacognition |
| A sure way of solving a problem in step-by-step fashion. | Algorithm |
| States that there is a window of time in which a child is ready to learn language | Critical Period Theory |
| Thinking about how you think | Metacognition |
| Refers to "how" a question is posed | Framing |
| Tendency to be influences by a suggested reference point, pulling our responses toward that point | Anchoring effect |
| The inability to look at a problem from a fresh perspective, instead using a prior strategy that may not lead to success | Fixation |
| Tendency to falsely report, after the event, that we predicted the outcome of the event correctly | Hindsight bias |
