Topic: Normal adult communication, cognitive foundations, perception
 
  1. Description systems
    1. Psycholinguistic
      1. Semantics
      2. Syntax
      3. Morphology
      4. Phonology
      5. Pragmatics
    2. Bloom & Lahey
      1. Content
      2. Form
      3. Use
    3. Social/Communicative
      1. Information theory
        1. sender, receiver, transmitter
        2. telephone analogy
      2. Drama theory
        1. performing scripts
        2. related to discourse analysis
      3. Social reality
        1. public, private
        2. collective, individual
      4. Interpersonal systems
        1. self-disclosure
        2. control
        3. game theory (Prisoner's dilemma)
  2. Cognitive foundations
    1. Alertness
      1. Limbic system
      2. Awareness, arousal
    2. Attention
      1. Directed
        1. Spatial
        2. Propositional
      2. Divided
        1. Resource allocation
        2. Capacity theory
      3. Sustained (vigilance)
      4. Quasi-sustained directed
    3. Mental operations
      1. Cognition
        1. Allows for all other operations
      2. Memory
        1. Semantic/episodic
        2. Long-term/short-term
        3. Explicit/implicit
        4. Semantic/procedural
      3. Convergent thinking
        1. Developing logical conclusions from information given
        2. Logic
        3. Inferences
      4. Divergent thinking
        1. Developing logical alternatives from limited information
        2. Creativity
      5. Evaluative thinking or judgement
    4. Composite abilities
      1. Problem solving
      2. Decision making
      3. Learning
        1. Information
        2. Procedures

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