Across
- 3. sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
- 8. creativity component that furnishes ideas, images, etc. that are the building blocks
- 10. way an issue is posed
- 11. spoken, written, or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate
- 12. set of rules we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences
- 13. stage that child speaks with various sounds
- 14. rules combining words into grammatical, sensible sentences
- 15. stage that child would say “go car”
- 16. Bias that deals with a tendency to search for info that supports our preconceptions
- 17. mental image or best example of a category
- 18. more confident than correct
- 22. set/ approaching problem with one particular way
- 23. shortcut to get a solution
Down
- 1. system of rules in a given language (semantics and syntax)
- 2. inability to see a problem from new perspective
- 4. effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning
- 5. step-by-step procedures to get solution
- 6. heuristic that judges likeliness of things in terms of how well the represent something
- 7. heuristic that deals with likelihood of events based on availability in memory
- 9. smallest unit of sound
- 19. ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
- 20. Fixedness/ thinking of things only in terms of their normal functions
- 21. referring to all mental activities
- 22. smallest unit that carries meaning
- 24. Mental groupings of similar items
