Cohesion is an extension of:

Explanation

Pressman states directly that cohesion is a natural extension of the information hiding concept. Information hiding says that each module should conceal its design decisions and expose only what other modules need; carried to its conclusion, that means a module should contain exactly the data and operations belonging to one purpose and nothing else, which is precisely cohesion. Abstraction is about describing a solution at different levels of detail, and refinement is the top-down elaboration of those levels — neither leads directly to cohesion. Modularity is the broader property that cohesion and coupling are used to measure, not the concept cohesion extends. Hence the answer is information hiding.