Across
- 2. capacity to use information and abilities in new ways
- 4. sodden realization of solution
- 5. smallest meaningful unit of language such as prefix or suffix
- 8. an abstract unit of thought that represents an object
- 12. study of meaning in language
- 14. the ways in which words and phrases are arranged into grammatical scentences
- 15. systematic and logical thought process used to reach a specific goal
- 16. free flow of thoughts with no particular plan
- 24. overcome rigidity
- 25. statement or assertion that serves as the basis for an arguement
Down
- 1. type of mental set that prevents one from imagining new functions for familiar objects
- 3. mentally rearranging elements
- 6. the basic sound unit in a spoken language
- 7. label for class of objects or events that share common attributes
- 9. set habitual strategy or pattern
- 10. step by step procedures to solve problems
- 11. likeness that exists between two or more things that are in other ways unlike
- 13. changing and reorganizing the information stored in memory to create new information
- 17. tendency to look for information that confirms one's percieved notions
- 18. process of making decisions based on certain ideas or standards held by the decision maker
- 19. a representation of an example of a concept
- 20. mental repression of an event or object
- 21. rules of thumb that tend to simplify a problem to allow for faster and easier problem solving
- 22. effect influence of wording
- 23. most complex unit of thought that is a statement of relation between concepts