AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING CONCEPTS AND CREATIVITY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
cognition
A
a simple thinking strategy that often allows is to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
B
whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think
C
all the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communication
D
misleading information
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cognition refers to mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information. Cognition can include reasoning, judgment, and assembling new information into knowledge.

Detailed explanation-2: -I. THINKING (or cognition) refers to the mental manipulation of images, concepts, words, rules, symbols, and precepts. It involves attention, pattern recognition, memory, decision making, intuition, knowledge, and more. Images, muscular responses, concepts, and language or symbol are the basic units of thought.

Detailed explanation-3: -The knowledge dimension is the core for the six cognitive processes and is classified into four types of knowledge including factual, conceptual, procedural, and meta cognitive knowledge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hence, Inferring, abstracting, and reasoning all are the activities that are involved in thinking.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cognition is a term referring to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension. Some of the many different cognitive processes include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, and problem-solving.

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