McCarthy Spring 2013 Psychology Chapter Reaction: Cognition Cognition or thinking is defined as “a mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is processing information – organizing it, understanding it, and communicating it to others” (Ciccarelli & White, 2011 p. 254). Lewis M. Terman, a psychologist, selected 1,528 children to participate in a longitudinal study (Ciccarelli & White, 2011). In this experiment, there were 857 boys and 671 girls (Ciccarelli & White, 2011). These…
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