7B Terms

2. / the Aha! moment
4. / set rules in a language
8. fixedness / the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions
10. stage / the stage of speech from age 1 to 2
13. / the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
14. / mental grouping of similar objects or events
16. / an automatic feeling or thought
19. / mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
22. / the smallest unit of a word that carries meaning
23. / the smallest distinctive sound
24. / ex. the order of words in a sentence

1. / inability to perceive a problem from a new perspective
3. / a mental image or best example of a category
5. / ex. looking up memory in the table of contents
6. determinism / Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think
7. / ex. going through every chapter to find the memory unit
9. / the tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge or judgments
11. set / a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way
12. / ex. -ed means that it happened in the past
14. / argues that we are born with a language acquisition device
15. stage / the stage of speech at 4 months
17. stage / ex. "Drink milk"
18. / ex. Polish or English
20. / the way an issue is posed
21. perseverance / the tendency to cling to one's beliefs in the face of contrary evidence