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