AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people?
A
Heuristic
B
Algorithm
C
Insight
D
Concept
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cognition: all of the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Concepts: a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Mental categories used to group together objects, relations, events, abstractions or qualities that have common properties are called concepts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prototype: A mental image or best example of a category.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -A schema is a cognitive structure that serves as a framework for one’s knowledge about people, places, objects, and events. Schemas help people organize their knowledge of the world and understand new information.

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