AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which term refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?
A
universal grammar
B
heuristic
C
cognition
D
algorithm
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: -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. We form most concepts around prototypes, or best examples of a category.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

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