Question

The cognitive approach ______.
Select one:
a. views behavior and mental process as primarily the result of learning
b. focuses on how people take in and store information
c. involves a conflict between sexual or aggressive instincts and environmental obstacles
d. states that our capacity to choose how to think and act will determine our behavior​

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Focuses on how people take in and store information

Explanation:

By elimination:

Option (a) describes learning theories of personality like Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning and Social learning (Bandura).

Option (c) describes Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic personality theories.

Option (d) seems to describe a Person-Centered approach to describing personality (e.g. Rogers) due to the phrase "capacity to choose how to think and act".

Only option (b) describes a purely cognitive approach to theorizing personality.