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Across 2. a statement or assertion that serves as the basis for an argument 12. the communication of ideas through sounds and symbols that are arranged according to rules of grammar 13. the process of drawing logical conclusions from facts and arguments 14. a form of thinking in which conclusions are inferred from premise; the conclusions are true if the premises are true 16. a strategy for making judgements and solving problems 17. the ways in which words or phrases are worded into grammatical sentences 18. a problem solving strategy that eventually leads to a solution; usually involves trying a random solution to a problem in a semantic way 20. a thought process that attempts to generate multiple solutions to a problem 21. a barrier to problem solving that involves the tendency to think of objects only in terms of their common use 22. a mental structure used to categorize objects, people, or events that share similar characteristics 23. the influence of wording, or the way in which information is presented, on decision making 24. the basic sound unit in the spoken language 25. the tendency to approach a new problem in a way that has been affective in the past

Down 1. an object or act that stands for something else 3. the smallest meaningful unit of language, such as a prefix or suffix 4. mental activity that involves understanding, manipulating, and communicating information 5. a form of thinking that involves using individual cases or particular fats to reach a general conclusion 6. the formation of plurals and the past tense of irregular nouns and verbs according to rules of grammar that apply to regular nouns and verbs; characteristic of the speech of young children 7. a heuristic device in which a solution to a problem is found by evaluating the difference between the current situation and the goal 8. a problem solving method that involves reducing the difference between the present situation and the desired one 9. The tendency to make decisions on the basis of information that is available in one's immediate consciousness 10. the study of meaning in language, the relationship between language and the objects depicted by language 11. thinking that is limited to available facts 15. the tendency to arrive at a solution after a period of time away from the problem 19. an original model on which others in the same category are patterned