TASK 3 - SUMMARY WRITING

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Principles that define the cognitive level of analysis

When people are thinking about how best to s o l v e a mathematical problem, trying to remember the title of a book, observing a beautiful sunset, telling a joke they have heard, or thinking about what to do tomorrow, they are involved in cognitive processing. Cognitive psychology is concerned with the structure and functions of the mind. Cognitive psychologists are involved in finding out how the human mind comes to know things about the world and how it uses this knowledge. Cognitive neuroscience combines knowledge about the brain with knowledge about cognitive processes.

The mind can be seen as a set of mental processes that are carried out by the brain. Cognitive processes include perception, thinking, problem-solving, memory, language, and attention. The concept of cognition refers to such processes. Cognition is based on a person's mental representations of the world, such as images, words, and concepts. People have different experiences and therefore they have different mental representations - for example, of what is right or wrong, or about what boys and girls can or cannot do. This will influence the way they think about the world.