What is the focus of Comparative Psychology?

• A. Animal cognition, sometimes comparing it to humans
• B. Language family classification
• C. Computer programming paradigms
• D. Social learning in humans only

Answer: (A)

Comparative psychology examines how animals think, learn, and perceive, and it often compares these cognitive processes across species to humans to understand how the mind has evolved. This focus on animal cognition and cross-species comparisons is what makes the first option the best fit. The other choices don’t align with this field: language family classification is a linguistics topic, computer programming paradigms belong to computer science, and social learning in humans only ignores the cross-species, comparative perspective that characterizes this discipline.