Question

Professor Baker wants her students to conduct a study to examine how people reason, recall, and understand language in order to apply moral standards. She has instructed her class to infer the mental processes of their participants. What psychological perspective is she attempting to teach her class?

Answer 1

The correct answer is cognitive

The point of view or perspective in cognitive theory, is the choice of a context or reference (or the result of this choice) from which the sense, the categorization, the measurement or the codification of an experience are started, typically by comparison with another.

Cognitive theory emerged in the United States between the 1950s and 1960s as a form of criticism of behavioralism, which postulated, in general, learning as a result of conditioning individuals when exposed to a situation of stimulus and response.

The term cognition can be defined as the set of mental skills necessary to build knowledge about the world. Cognitive processes therefore involve skills related to the development of thought, reasoning, language, memory, abstraction, etc; they start in childhood and are directly related to learning.