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