Cognition

Imagery – how form, how use, and the brain

Concepts – formal, natural, prototypes, exemplars

Steps to problem solving

Trial and error, insight, heuristics (working backwards, means-end analysis, analogy heuristic), algorithms

Reasoning – inductive, deductive (syllogism), individual differences, and the scientific method

Decision making – additive strategy, elimination by aspects

Obstacles to problem solving – functional fixedness/mental set, overconfidence/confirmation bias, representative heuristic, availability heuristic, framing, anchoring

Artificial intelligence – expert systems, artificial neural networks, robotics

Creativity – characteristics of creative people, divergent thinking

Language (psycholinguistics) – semantics, generativity, displacement

Structure – phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics (surface and deep structure), pragmatics

Language development – babbling, over and underextention, holophrasic speech, telegraphic speech

Learning language – operant, observational, biological

Bilingualism – metalinguistic skills, best time to learn

Language and the brain

Animal language