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12 Cards in this Set
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Confirmation bias
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Tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore contradictory evidence
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Availability heuristic
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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory (instances come readily to mind)
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Phoneme
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Smallest unit of sound
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Morpheme
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Smallest unit of meaning (word, prefix, etc)
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Semantics
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Set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds
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Syntax
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Grammatically sensible sentences
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Pragmatics
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Inflections and actual speech of sentences
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Receptive & productive language in babies
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Understand what is being said to and about them vs. produce sounds and words = around 4 mo
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Noam Chomsky
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Believed that we have innate readiness to learn the grammar rules of language
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Broca's area damage
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Can't speak words, but can sing
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Wernicke's area damage
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Can't form meaningful sentences or understand language
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Whorf's hypothesis
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Linguistic determinism: language determines how we think
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