According to the discussion of the themes of the textbook,

a. negative information is consistently easier to process than positive information, because it is more startling.
b. our cognitive processes are interrelated with one another.
c. our higher mental processes generally operate independently of the more basic mental processes.
d. in general, our cognitive processes are not very accurate.


Ans: b

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