AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Thinking The process of mentally representing and manipulating information.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thinking. The manipulation of mental representations of information in order to draw inferences and conclusions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thinking, also known as ‘cognition’, refers to the ability to process information, hold attention, store and retrieve memories and select appropriate responses and actions. The ability to understand other people, and express oneself to others can also be categorised under thinking.

Detailed explanation-4: -A representational ToM refers to the view that beliefs and desires are representations of the real world and that these representations mediate our actions in the world. Our beliefs about the world can be either true or false and our intentions and desires can be either fulfilled or unfulfilled.

Detailed explanation-5: -n. that which stands for or signifies something else. For example, in cognitive psychology the term denotes a mental representation, whereas in psychoanalytic theory it refers to an introject (see introjection) of a significant figure or to a symbol for a repressed impulse.