phonemes
smallest units of sound in language
morphemes
smallest units of meaning
syntax
rules for combining words into sentences
stages if language acquisition
babbling, household babbling, one-word, two word, full sentences
statistical learning
ability of infant to detect patterns in speech to learn word boundaries
Broca’s area
speech production
Wernicke’s area
language comprehension
cognitive economy
storing info efficiently using concepts’categories
prototype model
categorizing by comparing the best example of a category
exemplar model
categorizing by comparing all stored examples
availability heuristic
judging likelihood by how easily examples come to mind
representativeness heuristic
judging based on similarity to a prototype
anchoring heuristic
relying too much on the first piece of info
confirmation bias
seeking info that confirms beliefs
hindsight bias
“knew it all along”
framing effects
decisions change based on how info is presented
