CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A mental grouping of similar things, events or people is called a(n):
A
Prototype
B
Concept
C
Algorithm
D
Heuristic
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: -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-3: -Prototype: A mental image or best example of a category; the most typical instance of a particular concept. Matching new items to a prototype provides a quick, easy method for including items in a category. As when comparing feathered creatures to a prototypical bird, such as a robin.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cognitive psychologists, sometimes called brain scientists, study how the human brain works-how we think, remember and learn.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cognition is the mental process of learning, understanding, and communicating.

There is 1 question to complete.