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10 Cards in this Set
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codability
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the ease with which a concept can be described
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counterfactual reasoning
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thinking hypothetically about a situation that is contrary to fact
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insight problems
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problems that are solved all at once with one key idea
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framing effect
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the tendency for people to choose different alternatives depending on how the alternatives are worded
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linguistic category model
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a theory that posits four different levels of abstraction at which the same behavior can be described
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linguistic determinism
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the idea that we can think only in terms of concepts for which there are words in our language. Thus, language determines how we think.
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linguistic intergroup bias (LIB)
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referring to the tendency of people to describe the behavior of others in a way that reflects more positively on those they like and less positively on those they do not like.
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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the idea that language and thought are highly related, even to the point that language differences cause differences among cultures in ways of thinking.
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linguistic relativity
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referring to the idea that cross-cultural variations in cognition are associated with differences in languages.
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Zipf's law
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the tendency for the most frequent words to be shorter words.
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