Suppose that you meet a professor who is trying to determine what portions of the brain are involved in trying to recall a word that is on the tip of your tongue. This person is likely to use the approach of
a. artificial intelligence.
b. cognitive neuroscience.
c. gestalt psychology
d. behaviorism.
Question 2
Why are cognitive psychologists less interested in the information-processing approach than they were in earlier years?
a. They now realize that the complexity of human thinking requires more sophisticated models.
b. They acknowledge that behaviorist principles can explain memory more effectively.
c. They argue that the model does not distinguish sufficiently between short-term memory (working memory) and long-term memory.
d. They point out that the model works only for visual information, rather than for auditory information.
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