Across
- 5. stage- the developmental period, between approximately 10 and 18 months, when children use one word at a time when speaking
- 7. area- region of the brain that contains motor neurons involved in the comprehension of speech
- 8. a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
- 11. the study of sentences and phrases, or how people put words into the right order so that they can communicate meaningfully
- 12. the inability to see a problem from a new perspective by employing a different mental set
- 13. a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems
- 18. perseverance- clinging to one's initial concepts after the basis on which they were formed
- 19. our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate
- 20. a mental image or best example of a category
- 22. speech- condensed or abbreviated speech in which only the most central words, carrying the highest level of information, are spoken
- 23. concerns the meanings of words, signs, symbols, and the phrases that represent them
- 25. an acquired language impairment that results from brain damage typically in the left hemisphere
- 26. bias- a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.
- 28. in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
- 29. heuristic- judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent or match
- 30. set- a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
Down
- 1. deciding on options based on whether the options are presented with positive or negative connotations
- 2. a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
- 3. area- one of the main language centers of the brain
- 4. fixedness- the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual function an impediment to problem solving
- 6. an abstract system of rules that describes how a language works
- 9. determination- the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception
- 10. an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit conscious reasoning
- 14. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 15. a unit of meaning that cannot be analyzed into smaller such units
- 16. a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem
- 17. stage- a stage in child development and a state in language acquisition during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds, but does not yet produce any recognizable words
- 21. the tendency to be more confident than correct
- 24. stage- the developmental period, between approximately 18 and 24 months of age, during which children use two words at a time when speaking
- 27. heuristic- estimating the likelihood of evets based on their availability