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13 Cards in this Set
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Morphemes
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smallest unit of meaning in a language,
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syntax
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internal structure of a sentence , determined by a set of rules for combining different parts of speech into acceptable arrangements (rules for sentence structure for nouns verbs etc. ex- “kicked the girl ball red”
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Phonology
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structures of the sound that can be used to produce words in a language (tomato sometimes has different pronunciations)
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semantics
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(meaning of a word or sentence)
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propositional representations
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propositional representations A mental sentence that expresses the unambiguous meaning of an assertion (“jist of things” our way of taking information and storing it in our head)
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Pragmatics
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the way which words and sentences in a language convey meaning indirectly by implying rather than asserting
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Categories
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a category in which the members are specific cases of a more general type
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Prototypes
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most typical example of a concept category
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Logic
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process of applying the principals of correct reasoning to reach a decision or evaluate the truth of a claim
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Algorithm
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a set of steps, if followed correctly will guarantee a solution
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Heuristics
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strategy that doesn’t guarantee a solution, but a shortcut to it
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Availability heuristic
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the tendency to judge objects or events as more likely common or frequent if they are easier to bring to mind. (think of words that begin with the letter K, or that have K in the Third position
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Representative heuristic
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the heuristic that the more similar something is to a prototype stored in memory, the more likely it is to belong to the prototype’s category.
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