Mitchell (2009) Argued, from Neuroscience Data, That Social Psychology Is

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Multiple Choice

Mitchell (2009) argued, from neuroscience data, that social psychology is a 'natural kind'. What did he mean by this?

• A) That human social cognition is innate
• B) We are biased to perceive unrelated social phenomena as connected.
• C) That the same set of neural mechanisms that support social cognition also support non-social cognition
• D) A core set of neural structures are involved in implementing the diverse range of social cognitions studied by social psychologists.

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