Psychologists Use the Term Explicit Cognition to Describe The

question 103

Multiple Choice

Psychologists use the term explicit cognition to describe the:

• A)cognitive schemas or mental frameworks we hold about traits and behaviors associated with different types of people.
• B)deliberate, conscious mental processes involved in perceptions, judgments, decisions, and reasoning.
• C)tendency to overestimate one's ability to have foreseen or predicted the outcome of an event.
• D)automatic, nonconscious mental processes that influence perceptions, judgments, decisions, and reasoning.

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