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The study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including educational psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, and economics.

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A situation in which a word can have more than one meaning • Example: “rock” Context usually enables quick resolution of lexical ambiguity • “I could not move the heavy rock that blocked the ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Language determines or influences the way that a person thinks or perceives the world. Also called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Evidence comes from studies of color categorization in different ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Language and thought are represented and processed by separate modules in the mind • Module is an informationally encapsulated, domain-specific system. • Language and thought modules operate ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Smallest meaningful unit of language • Meaning can be grammatical (e.g., suffix) • About 50,000 to 80,000 in English • Morpheme does not correspond to number of phonemes or syllables in a ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A new approach to studying decision making which combines research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and economics.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A form of pragmatic reasoning that states that if a person satisfies condition A, then they have permission to carry out action B.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Shortest segment of speech that, if changed, can change the meaning of a word • About 47 different phonemes in English • Languages have different phonemes • Example: “bit” has three phonemes, ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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