Question

Dr. MacPherson believes that the way students organize and think about the information in their textbooks will strongly influence their ability to later remember and use what they have studied. Dr. MacPherson's ideas most directly exemplify the ________ perspective. Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Answer:

b) cognitive

Explanation:

This question is incomplete, the options for this question are:

a) social cultural

b) cognitive

c) psychodynamic

d) behavior genetics

In psychology, the cognitive perspective focuses on internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. This perspective focuses on how to do long term changes to this processes by learning new abilities and new ways of thinking that will affect our behavior and the way we relate with other people.

In this example, Dr. MacPherson believes that the way students organize and think about the information in their textbooks will influence their ability to remember and use what they have studied. We can see that the main focus of Dr. MacPherson is the ability to remember information (memory), therefore she is focusing on an internal mental process and her ideas most directly exemplify the cognitive perspective.