Cognitive Psych.	Fall 2007	Study Guide for Final exam
you should be familiar with the following terms and concepts:
rationalism	fixation	descriptive models
empiricism	mental set	economists' assumptions
properties of language	functional fixedness	MAUT
generative	insight	elimination by aspects
hiearchical organization	generate-and-test	risk aversion
of language	creativity	expected value
phoneme	critical thinking	framing effect
morpheme	general problem solver	principle of diminishing returns
syntax	incubation	gambler's fallacy
semantics	deductive reasoning	anchoring
prescriptive grammar	inductive reasoning	sunk-cost effect
descriptive grammar	categorization	illusory correlation
natural language	confirmation bias	hindsight bias
surface structure	heuristics	overconfirdence
deep structure	representativeness	probability
phrase structure	availability heuristic	cognitive overload
transformational grammar	base rate	expected utility theory
proposition	syllogistic reasoning	subjective probability
babbling	propositional reasoning	expected utility
critical period	antecendant	galvanic skin response
bilingualism	consequent	Iowa gambling task
American sign language	Wason card selection task	amygdala
lexcial decision task	permission schema	medial prefrontal cortex
context effects	obligation schema
lexcial access	componential approach
aphasia	rules / heuristics approach
competence vs. performance	mental models approach
pragmatics	content effect
Whorfian hypothesis	deductive validity
problem solving	fallacy
well-defined problem	formal reasoning
ill-defined problem	everyday reasoning
knowledge rich problem	inductive strength
knowledge lean problem	premise
means-end analysis	tautology
working backward	normative models of decision
analogy	making
expertise	prescriptive models