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3. Cognitive approach

The IB Psychology course looks at behavior through three different approaches: biological, cognitive, and sociocultural. In modern psychology, it is understood that these three approaches interact rather than compete to explain behavior. This chapter looks at cognitive explanations of behavior. There are two cognitive processes that are studied in this unit: memory and thinking. The HL extension looks into the...

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