AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Picking out the important bits of information from the problem, ignoring the specific details that don’t matter.
A
Decomposition
B
Abstraction
C
Programming
D
Algorithmic Thinking
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -b) Abstraction is picking out the importance bits of information from the problem, ignoring the specific details that don’t matter.

Detailed explanation-2: -abstraction – focusing on the important information only, ignoring irrelevant detail.

Detailed explanation-3: -In computational thinking, when we decompose problems, we then look for patterns among and within the smaller problems that make up the complex problem. Abstraction is the process of filtering out – ignoring-the characteristics of patterns that we don’t need in order to concentrate on those that we do.

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