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B. F. Skinner

Noam Chomsky

 

language acquisition device (LAD)

 

linguistics

 

phonemes

 

morphemes

 

phonological rules

 

accent

 

syntactical rules

 

fast-mapping

 

telegraphic speech

 

overgeneralization / overregularization

 

The Wug Test

 

critical period

 

genetic dysphasia

 

interactionist approach

 

linguistic relativity hypothesis / Whorf-Sapir hypothesis

 

concepts and categories

 

prototype

 

exemplar theory

 

mental set

 

functional fixedness

 

convergent thinking

 

divergent thinking

 

overconfidence

 

illusory superiority / Wobegon effect

 

belief bias

 

belief perseverance

 

algorithm

 

heuristic

 

Amos Tversky & Daniel Kahneman

 

availability heuristic

 

representativeness heuristic

 

framing effect

 

sunk-cost fallacy

 

recognition heuristic

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