The study of the smallest units of speech, called phonemes.

Sentences in which words not critical to the message are left out.

The communication of information through symbols arranged according to systematic rules.

Representations in the mind that resemble the object or event being represented.

Insight is a sudden of the relationships among various elements that had previously appeared to be independent of one another.

Ways in which words and phrases can be combined to form sentences.

Heuristic is a cognitive that may lead to a solution.

The manipulation of mental representations of information.

Typical, highly representative samples of a concept.

Categorizations of objects, events, or people that share common properties.