01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Metacognition, Stomach Cancer, Critical Thinking

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Lawrence Jacobs

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Refers to thinking , acquiring and managing knowledge. Language is intimately related to the activities of cognition. It is a system of arbitrary symbols that can be combined to create an infinite number of meaningful statements. Cognitive psychologists study how people think and acquire knowledge, know what they know, and how they solve problems and imagine. Cognitive psychology uses a variety of methods to measure mental processes and test theories about what we know and how we know it. Is the tendency to respond selectively to stimuli. It is generally true that a feature or object that is unusual or different will get your attention quickly, while one that is surrounded by similar objects will require a long and patient search. Finding an unusual feature or figure relies on a. Attentive process : attentive process, a procedure that considers only one part of the visual field at a time. Finding a typical feature or figure requires an.