Divergent thinking is when one thinks of new solutions to problems. It's how people innovate and address recurring issues with new solutions that may actually fix the problem. It is not stereotypical, sadistic, or emotional, and rather engages the creative thinking processes. An example of divergent thinking would be the development of electric cars in response to the air pollution problems.

An example of the mere-exposure effect would be if someone initially hates coffee but is exposed to it and begins to like it. The mere-exposure effect happens when we may not like something upon first glance, but as we become more and more exposed to it then we come to like it more.

Overconfidence, with respect to thinking and cognition, refers to when one is unreasonably confident that their beliefs and opinions are correct. In other words, these individuals tend to think that they know more about the world than they actually do. This is not considered the same as "overconfident," which implies that someone is being egotistical.

When humans are actively engaged in mental cognition, we use concepts, prototypes, and cognitive schemas. These are essentially ways that we organize and average out large bodies of data about the world to reduce mental taxation or data overload. Emotional memory is not engaged because we are using our prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain responsible for intellectual thought.

A "cognitive schema" is a collection of knowledge, beliefs, assumptions, associations, and expectations about aspects of the world we are not familiar with. When we are heavily familiarized with something, we may not need a cognitive schema to process it. If we are thinking about an aspect of the world we are foreign to we may need the assistance of a cognitive schema. For instance, we might form a cognitive schema around New York based off of what we've read, seen, heard, etc. Then when we actually go to New York, we might end up using this cognitive schema to filter the information they're receiving.

Lev Vygotsky posited that children’s sociocultural environment plays a huge role in how they develop cognitively as well as their acquisition of language. Unlike Piaget's view, Vygotsky did not believe children went through series of stages in their linguistic and cognitive development. Their development depends on interactions with adults, cultural norms, and their environmental circumstances. He also pointed out that children use language to control their own behavior.

Cognition is a form of thinking that involves mental activities such as understanding, problem solving, and decision making. This is when we are fully engaged with our minds, using our full mental capacity to innovate, weigh options, and tease out problems. Cognition, through its inherently innovative nature, makes creativity possible.

Current research has contradicted Piaget's original notion that children do not possess much cognitive ability until they are a year old. Instead, it suggests that children as young as 4 months have a basic understanding of physics. For instance, a four-month-old can recognize that solid objects cannot pass through other solid objects and that objects roll down slopes instead of up.

Problems involving structure usually require figuring out the relationship between two elements. Take this analogy problem: women are to men as sweets are to __________. The problem requires you to figure out the implied (i.e. not explicit) relationship between women and men and apply it to sweets. Structural problems are primarily based on relationships between parts.

Problems associated with arranging involve moving parts to fulfill a certain criterion. This manifests in many forms. Puzzles, anagrams, and block building are all forms of arrangement tasks. In the example provided in the answer, the letters are appropriately arranged to make the word “dancing.”