• Belief Perseverance- Our tendency to cling to our beliefs in face of contrary evidence. Ex- if someone believes that the Twin Tower explosion was planned by our government, they believe in that idea even though there is much more evidence supporting the explanation of the terrorists planning it.
• Belief Bias-The tendency for our beliefs to distort our logic. Ex. Premise 1: Some parents drink alcohol; Premise 2: All drinkers are abusive; Premise 3: Some parents are abusive.
• Artificial Intelligence- science of designing computer systems to perform operations that mimic human thinking and do "intelligent" things. Ex- robots
• Computer Neural Networks- computer systems designed to mimic the brains interconnected neural units. Ex- in the movie "War Games" the main character interacts with a computer that is able to communicate and able to function because of its use of its "neural network."
• Language- they way we use, think, combine, and process the spoken, written, or signed symbols or words. Ex- English
• Phonemes- a set of basic sounds.  Ex- cat - C-A-T
• Morpheme- smallest unit of language that carries meaning, most are combinations of two phonemes.  A lot of times are prefixes of suffixes. Ex- lasted- L-A-S-T-ED
• Grammar- rules to follow in a language that enable communication. Ex-punctuation

-Paige Barbour (period 8)