AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The mental activity involved in communicating information is
A
the language acquisition device
B
thinking
C
the mental set
D
semantics
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cognition refers to mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thinking is the mental activity that allows us to understand, process, and communicate information. The basic units of thought include symbols, concepts, and prototypes. There are three kinds of thinking: convergent, divergent, and metacognition.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hence, Inferring, abstracting, and reasoning all are the activities that are involved in thinking.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thinking (Cognition): Mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing and attempting to understand information and communicating information to others. Includes memory, consciousness, decision making and problem solving.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cognition refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. We use concepts, mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, or people, to simplify and order the world around us.

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