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

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences Unique properties of human language • Hierarchical: Multiple small ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

The psychological study of language • Comprehension: How do we understand spoken and written language? • Production: How do we produce speech and writing? • Representation: How is language ...

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

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

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

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