QUESTION

Our abilities to perceive the world, to reason, to learn from experience, and to communicate with others are often taken for granted. The magnificent cerebral machinery that makes these abilities possible does its job so well as to draw little attention to itself. Although reflections on the nature of these processes figured heavily in the writings of the great philosophers, an independent scientific discipline did not emerge to study the mind until the middle of the nineteenth century. This discipline has developed into what we now know as psychology, the scientific analysis of behaviour and cognitive processes. Modern psychology approaches the analysis of behaviour in several ways. One focuses upon an analysis of the fundamental processes of perception, cognition, movement, learning, and motivation as well as the application of this knowledge to fundamental problems facing individuals and society

Discuss the major focus of modern psychology and explain the importance of any two of the fundamental processes underlined in the above text.