AP PSYCHOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Cognitive psychology?
A
A change in behavior as a result in experience
B
The relationship between our thoughts, perceptions and actions
C
Focuses on diagnosis and treatment
D
MD capable of prescribing medication
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Perception, as a subdomain of cognitive psychology, performs the task of allowing people to experience their environment. It involves seeing familiar objects, smelling the aroma of meals, feeling the touch of objects and hearing the sound of music in one’s environment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cognitive perception includes, aside from the senses listening, seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling, the way in which we deal with information. While perception refers to ways of obtaining information from our environment, cognition describes processes such as remembering, learning, solving problems and orientation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cognition can be defined as activities related to thought processes that let us gain knowledge about the world while emotions would be what we feel that involve physiological arousal, evaluation of what we experience, how our behavior expresses them, and the conscious experience of emotions themselves.

Detailed explanation-4: -The person perception definition is the theory that studies how people use various mental processes to make impressions of others. It is a part of social cognition, which is a part of social psychology that looks at how people process information in social situations.

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