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Cognition
All the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating
Algorithm
Methodical logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
Heuristics
Simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently
Confirmation Bias
Tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions
Representativeness Heuristics
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match particular prototypes; may lead to ignore other relevant information
Availability Heuristic
Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
Overconfidence
To over estimate the accuracy of one's beliefs and judgments
Belief Bias
Tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning.
Belief preserverance
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
Phoneme
The smallest distinctive sound unit
Morpheme
The smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word
Grammar
A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
Semantics
Set of rules by which we drive meaning from morphemes, words and sentences in a given language; also the study of meaning
Syntax
The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
Linguistic determinism
whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think