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Most part of our thinking is adaptive. Being able to instantly size up whether a person is trustworthy allows us to avoid harm, this can happen with or without our conscious awareness. unconcious cognitive processes can affect thought and behaviour. We will see this is also true for decision making and problem solving . Cognition mental activity such as thinking or representing information . The challenge for cognitive psychologists is to understand the nature of those everyday mental representations. Analogical representation - a mental representation that has some of the physical characteristics of an object, it is analogous to the object. Symbolic representation - an abstract mental representation that does not correspond to the physical features of an object or idea. What shepard and one of his colleagues found was that the length of time subjects took to determine whether an object was normal or a mirror image depended on its degree of rotation .
