Cognitive Strategy

A cognitive strategy is a specific method a person uses to solve a problem or exploit an opportunity, encompassing reasoning, planning, arithmetic and similar mental operations; it need not happen entirely inside the head, since it will almost always interact with the surrounding context in which it is carried out. A cognitive strategy is implemented through a set of ordered, sometimes overlapping, logical steps, each of which is taught or learned and then remembered as knowledge of the situation for future use, so the strategy functions as a remembered, consciously built procedure that guides later mental processing toward a decision and a resulting action.