Question

In an experiment, participants who wore a doctor's white lab coat made fewer errors on a test of perception that participants who wore regular clothes. This finding concurs with the belief that our bodies can alter our cognitive preferences and judgements, which is known as

A. embodied cognition.
B. parallel processing.
C. perceptual set.
D. synesthesia.

Answer 1

Embodied cognition

Explanation:

Embodied cognition is related to both mind and body relationship. In this type of cognition mind will influence the body as well as the body will also influence the mind called a counter initiative cognitive science.

Thus in the above experiment, this happens because of our cognitive preferences and judgment that is called embodied cognition.