Cognition and Language Test

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Across
  1. 5. specific methods for approaching problems
  2. 6. smallest unit of sound in language
  3. 8. the more we come to appreciate why our beliefs might be true, the more tightly we cling to them
  4. 10. mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information
  5. 11. period the time during which language develops readily and after which language acquisition is much more difficult
  6. 12. when people make judgments about events or samples according to the populations of events that they appear to represent
  7. 14. focuses on reaching one well-defined solution to a problem
  8. 15. came up with language acquisition device
  9. 16. a best example of a category
  10. 17. step-by-step procedures that guarantee a solution
  11. 18. a decision-making heuristic in which a presumption or first estimate serves as a cognitive anchor
  12. 21. refers to rules for combining words into meaningful phrases or sentences to express thoughts that can be understood by others
  13. 22. a sudden awareness of a solution to a problem
  14. 23. the process of creating multiple, unique ideas or solutions to a problem that you are trying to solve
Down
  1. 1. when we are more confident than correct
  2. 2. smallest unit of meaning in language
  3. 3. the inability to imagine new uses for familiar objects
  4. 4. an instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language
  5. 7. when a particular strategy becomes a habit
  6. 9. mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas
  7. 13. events we remember easily are likely to have occurred more frequently in the past—and are more likely to occur in the future—than events that are hard to remember
  8. 15. the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one’s existing beliefs or theories
  9. 19. search trying each solution to a problem
  10. 20. a strategy that allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently