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Chapter 8 (Anagrams- rearranging letters to make an English word (Decision…
Chapter 8
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Gambler's Fallacy- belief that the odds of a chance event increase if the event has not occurred recently
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Confirmation Bias- the tendency to only seek information that is likely to support one's decisions and beliefs
Linguistic relativity process-hypothesis that one's language determines the nature of one's thought; ex) a culture that has different shades/names of blue may perceive it differently than another in a more elaborate way
telegraphic Speech- content words, less critical words are omitted ex) "give doll"
Mean length of utterance- average length of youngsters spoken statements
overextension-when a child incorrectly uses a word to describe a wider set of objects ex) "ball" to describe apple, oranges, moon
underextension- when a child incorrectly uses a word to describe a narrow set of objects ex)"doll" to refer to a single, favorite doll