Question

1. the cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how

a. feelings are influenced by blood chemistry.

b. people try to understand their own unconscious motives.

c. behavior is influenced by environmental conditions.

d. people encode, process, store, and retrieve information.

e. how behaviors and thinking vary across cultures.

Explanation:

• Option a: Focus on blood chemistry relates to the biological perspective, not cognitive.
• Option b: Unconscious motives are studied in the psychodynamic perspective.
• Option c: Environmental influence on behavior is the behavioral perspective.
• Option d: The cognitive perspective emphasizes mental processes like encoding, processing, storing, and retrieving information.
• Option e: Cultural variations in behavior/thinking are part of the sociocultural perspective.

Answer:

d. people encode, process, store, and retrieve information.