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| estimate probabilities based on how easy it is to retrieve examples |
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| after the fact, people tend to think they could have predicted an ourcome |
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| somatic marker hypothesis |
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| subjects consider their gut feeling. Nondeclarative emotional memory of how a decision outcome made them feel |
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| prefrontal cortex in decision making |
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| involved in evaluating the affective consequences of their actions. Lesions make patients unable to take negative emotional outcomes into account |
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| special, arbitrary pattern that is used to carry a specific meaning |
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Humans developed the
anatomical requirements for
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150,000 to 200,000
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Contains mental
representations of all
words and word forms
(lexemes) we know |
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| speech areas in what hemisphere |
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| people do not like losses |
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| people overestimate how they will feel about losses, and underestimate how they feel about gains |
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Participants in a conversation agree to
cooperate and follow the same conversational rules |
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• Learned more than 130 signs
• Claimed to occasionally combine signs to get a new meaning |
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• Learned 125 signs
• But wasn’t able to form novel combinations or learn syntax |
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• bonobo
• Symbols on a computer keyboard
• Could associate 150 symbols with spoken words and objects
• Responded correctly to 70-80% of sentences
• Performance comparable to a 2-year-old child |
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| evidence of universal grammar |
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• kids who dont receive proper language input will make their own language
• critical period for language learning, as seen in neglected children
• foxp2 gene mutation seems to be associated with language deficiencies
• word order preference |
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slow, halting speech
poor articulation
omission of prepositions
can still understand |
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bad comprehension
Non-meaningful speech & difficulty finding right word |
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Smallest window size at which reading
speed is not affected compared to no
window condition |
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