Programmers who were working on a chess-playing supercomputer asked a psychologist from their university for some help in working out the problem-solving algorithms they would be using. The psychologist who helped with this project was MOST likely a _____ psychologist.
A)behavioral
B)humanistic
C)biological
D)cognitive

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Cognitive psychologists study mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem-solving, creativity, and thinking." Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including educational psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, linguistics, and economics. Specifically, for a project involving problem-solving algorithms for a chess-playing supercomputer, a cognitive psychologist's expertise in understanding how the mind processes complex tasks like problem-solving would be most relevant and beneficial.

Programmers Who Were Working on a Chess-Playing Supercomputer Asked a Psychologist