Key Terms

language

grammar

phoneme

phonological rules

morphemes

morphological rules

syntactical rules

deep structure

surface structure

fast mapping

telegraphic speech

nativist theory

language acquisition device (LAD)

genetic dysphasia

aphasia

linguistic relativity hypothesis

concept

family resemblance theory

prototype

exemplar theory

category-specific deficit

rational choice theory

availability bias

heuristic

algorithm

conjunction fallacy

representativeness heuristic

framing effects

sunk-cost fallacy

prospect theory

frequency format hypothesis

means-ends analysis

analogical problem solving

functional fixedness

reasoning

practical reasoning

theoretical reasoning (or discursive reasoning)

belief bias

syllogistic reasoning