Which question would you be answering If are a cognitivist explaining human behavior?

If I am a cognitivist explaining human behavior, I would be answering questions related to how mental processes, such as thoughts, beliefs, and motivations, influence behavior.

Some specific questions I might address includes:

1. How do cognitive processes, such as perception, attention, learning, memory, and language, contribute to human behavior?

2. How do beliefs and values shape our attitudes, decisions, and actions?

3. What role do emotions and motivations play in driving behaviors?

4. How do mental representations, such as schemas and scripts, affect our interpretation of situations and response's to them?

5. How do cognitive biases and heuristics influence decision-making behaviors?

6. How do cognitive processes relate to the development of psychological disorders, such as anxiety and depression?

By investigating these types of questions, cognitivists aim to understand the various ways in which cognitive processes and mental states mediate the relationship between external influences( such as environment cues ) and overt behavior's. Our focus is how individuals process, represent, interpret, and responds to stimuli, rather than the observable behaviors themselves.