Which Perspective Focuses on How People Think,understand,and Know About the World

question 68

Multiple Choice

Which perspective focuses on how people think,understand,and know about the world?

• A)Neuroscience
• B)Psychodynamic
• C)Cognitive
• D)Behavioral

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Definitions:

System Justification Theory

The theory that negative stereotypes get attached to groups partly because they help explain and justify why some individuals are more advantaged than others.

Terror Management Theory

A theory which says that to minimize fear of mortality, humans strive to sustain faith that they are enduringly valued contributors to a meaningful world and therefore transcend their physical death.

Social Dominance Theory

The theory that large societies create hierarchies and that people tend to endorse beliefs thatlegitimatize that hierarchy.

Mortality

The state of being subject to death; the opposite of immortality.