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For the most part, our thinking is adaptive. e. g. develop rules for making fast decisions in everyday life. Cognition: mental activity such as thinking or representing info. Cognitive psychology was first based on the notion that the brain represents information and that act of thinking (cognition) is directly associated with manipulating these representations. Mental images are analogical representations (take on picturelike qualities) or mirror depended on its degree of rotation. Experiment (shepard): participants were asked to view letters and numbers and to determine whether given object was in its normal orientation or mirror image: the length of time subjects took to determine whether an object was normal. Experiment (kosslyn): analogical representations activate the primary visual cortex. Experiment (farah): patient with damage to temporal cortex was deficient in calling up mental images but not at spatial tasks. Ability to use spatial info is tied to maturation of child"s nervous system.
