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  1. The application of scientific methods to the
  2. study of mental processes and behaviour. This
  3. covers a wide range of fields of study
  4. including: human and animal learning in which
  5. learning theories describe how new behaviours
  6. are acquired and modified; cognition, the
  7. study of a number of functions, such as
  8. perception, attention, memory, and language;
  9. physiological psychology, which relates the
  10. study of cognition to different regions of
  11. the brain. Artificial intelligence refers to
  12. the computer simulation of cognitive
  13. processes, such as language and
  14. problem-solving.
  15.