Essentials of Understanding Psychology: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence Chapter 7 focuses on cognitive psychology, the branch of psychology that focuses on the study of higher mental processes, including thinking, language, memory, problem solving, knowing, reasoning, judging, and decision making. This chapter concentrates on three broad topics: thinking and reasoning, problem solving, and creativity and language. First, we consider concepts and various kinds of reasoning. Next the chapter examines problem solving strategies and how different strategies, such as creativity and skill at making judgments about solutions, may be useful. Finally, a discussion on how language is developed and acquired is presented. To further investigate the topics covered in this chapter, you can visit the related websites by visiting the following link:
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