Understanding Cognitive Processes and Language Structures

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What is the mental activity that involves understanding, manipulating, and communicating information?

What term describes an object or an act that stands for something else?

What is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people called?

What is an original model on which later versions are patterned?

What type of thinking is directed and limited to available facts?

What is the thought process that attempts to generate multiple solutions to problems?

What is the term for planning, evaluating, and monitoring mental activities, or thinking about thinking?

What is a problem-solving strategy characterized by a specific set of instructions?

What is a strategy for making judgments and solving problems, often referred to as a rule of thumb?

What problem-solving method involves reducing the difference between the present situation and the desired one?

What heuristic involves determining the difference between the starting situation and the goal, then taking steps to reduce that difference?

What is the tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past?

What is the barrier to problem solving that involves the tendency to think of objects only in terms of their common uses?

What is the mental rearrangement of elements of a problem called?

What is the tendency to arrive at a solution after a period of time away from the problem?

What is the process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence?

What form of thinking involves conclusions inferred from premises, where the conclusions are true if the premises are true?

What is an assumption that serves as the basis for a conclusion?

What form of thinking involves using individual cases or particular facts to reach a general conclusion?

What is the tendency to make a decision based on information that comes most easily to mind?

What is the process of making decisions about a sample according to the population that the sample appears to represent?

What is the process of making decisions based on certain ideas or standards held by the decision maker?

What is the communication of ideas through symbols and sounds that are arranged according to rules?

What is the psychology of language called?

What is the inborn ability of humans to acquire language?

What is a basic or minimum unit of sound in a language?

What are the smallest units of meaning in a language?

What is the study of meaning in language?

What refers to the ways words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences?

What is the formation of plurals and the past tense of irregular nouns and verbs according to rules of grammar that apply to regular nouns and verbs, characteristic of the speech of young children?

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