Thinking and Language

4. in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word
5. in lang., the smallest distinctive sound unit
11. a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
12. the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
13. some with ______ can speak but cannot read
17. the closer something matches our _____ of a concept, the more readily we recognize it as an example of the concept
18. _______ demonstrated insight with a chimpanzee
19. beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which an infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first
20. controls lang. reception

1. thanks to ______ info is moving from my mind to yours
2. we often think in _________
3. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
6. the tendency to be more confident than correct-- to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements
7. a ______ predisposes how we think
8. an inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective
9. linguistic determinism was ______ hypothesis
10. identified 5 components of creativity
14. wrote "The Stuff of Thought"
15. controls language expression
16. the mental shortcuts we call _____ enable snap judgement