Cognition & Language - Austin Community College

Cognition & Language
Cognition & Language
Learning Objectives:
Building blocks of thought
Problem solving
Language (development)
Building Blocks of Thought
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Concepts
Prototypes (good examples)
Exemplars (specific examples)
Positive
Negative
Problem Solving
Focusing on the relevant information
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Approaches to problem solving
Understanding the problem
 Algorithms
 Heuristics
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Factors that affect problem solving
Reasoning
Reasoning
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Deductive Reasoning
General to Specific
P1:
P2:
C:
All persons are mortal
Socrates is a person
Socrates is mortal
Inductive Reasoning
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Inductive Reasoning
Specific to General
P1:
P2:
C:
Socrates is a person
Socrates is mortal
All persons are mortal
Judgment & Decision Making
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Representativeness Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Anchoring & adjustment heuristic
The Framing Effect
Overconfidence
Language Development
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symbol:
language:
Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Language Development: 1st 2 years
 Prelinguistic:
 Holophrase
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Cooing, Babbling
Telegraphic Speech
Psycholinguistic Theory
Bilingualism & Ebonics