Thinking and Language

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Across
  1. 1. Strategy that allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently although not always correctly
  2. 4. A universal grammar in all humans
  3. 5. Theorist that hypothesized children are born with a language acquisition device
  4. 8. A habitual strategy for problem solving (used before with success)
  5. 10. Type of thinking that focuses one well-defined solution to a problem
  6. 12. Stage of language during which infant spontaneously utters sounds
  7. 15. The biased way we overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs, judgments, and performance
  8. 17. In language, the smallest distinctive unit of sound
  9. 18. Clinging to one's initial conceptions even after they are proven wrong
  10. 19. The way in which words are arranged to make phrases and sentences
  11. 20. A "typical" member of a category, one with the most defining features of that category (the perfect example)
  12. 22. Mental practice of performing a task as opposed to actual practice
  13. 23. Step-by-step procedure for solving a problem - always produces a right answer
  14. 24. Type of heuristic which relies on and believes info. that is more popular or easily recalled
  15. 26. Specific methods for approaching problems
  16. 27. The set of rules derived from sounds
Down
  1. 2. The mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information
  2. 3. System of rules that allows us to communicate
  3. 5. First few years of life is the best time in which language is learned
  4. 6. The communication of information through symbols arranged according to rule
  5. 7. A label or mental grouping of similar objects, events, etc.
  6. 9. The tendency to think of an object only in terms of its typical use
  7. 11. Type of thinking that generates many different solutions to a problem
  8. 13. Identified the 5 components of creativity
  9. 14. In language, the smallest unit of meaning; may be a word part or part of a word (prefix)
  10. 16. Developed the linguistic relativity hypothesis stating that our language shapes our thinking
  11. 21. The ability to produce new and valuable ideas
  12. 25. A sudden awareness of the solution to a problem