Cognitive Terms

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The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

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Cognition

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A logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.

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Algorithm

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The inability to see a problem from a new perspective; an impediment to problem solving.

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Fixation

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Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information

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bottom-up processing

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the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input

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Selective attention

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the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance

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Depth Perception

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Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information.

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Schemas

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the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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creativity

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a failure to perceive objects that are not the focus of attention

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inattentional blindness

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an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought

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Intuition