Topic And Setting2-2 Milestone Onedepartment Of Psychology,

Topic and Setting2-2 Milestone OneDepartment of Psychology, Southern New Hampshire UniversityPSY 540: Cognitive Processes 1 09:04:21 GMT -05:00Topic of Interest and Applied SettingFor the final project in PSY 540: Cognitive Processes, the cognitive topic the author will analyze is decision-making. The cognitive topic will be applied to the setting of law.Contemporary ProblemCognitive neuroscience has made valuable contributions to perceptual decision-making processes during exposure to routine stimuli; however, minimal research exists on perceptual decision-making processes during exposure to threatening stimuli (Mohanty et al., 2023). Law enforcement personnel regularly make decisions and judgments in high-stress situations or circumstances. The consequences of error in these situations may be detrimental or, at times, fatal. In more recent years, the decision-making and judgment of police officers have become controversial among scholars and society, deemed as adverse policing. Contending that alternative approaches to lethal forces are practical, problematic officers, flawed or lacking regulations, and careless oversight are the concentrated views and opinions concerning this issue (Dube et al., 2023). Despite this, recent research has suggested that the cognitive demands of policing implicate an officer’s ability to make effective and moral decisions in the field of duty (Lavie et al.,