An Understanding of Behavior and Mental Processes Can Be Misused

question 82

Multiple Choice

An understanding of behavior and mental processes can be misused to manipulate people.That's why some worry about the potential dangers of

• A) confounding variables.
• B) informed consent.
• C) dual processing.
• D) psychology.

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Definitions:

Titchener

A psychologist known for founding structuralism and advocating the method of introspection to identify the basic elements of consciousness.

Cognitive Processes

Mental activities involved in acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using knowledge, including perception, memory, reasoning, and language.

Information Processing

This is the mechanism through which human beings intake, store, and retrieve information, akin to how computers process data.

Connectionist Paradigm

A theoretical approach in cognitive science that models mental or behavioral phenomena as the product of interconnected networks of simple units, often inspired by the neural architecture of the brain.