Author Question: Cognitive psychologists often use the personal computer as a metaphor to understand how human beings ... (Read 36 times)

lracut11 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Cognitive psychologists often use the personal computer as a metaphor to understand how human beings process information from the outside world.

If such a researcher wanted to test whether or not human memory operates like a hard drive in a computer, the researcher would be using __________ to generate ideas for future research.

a. prior research findings.
b. everyday experience and knowledge.
c. existing theories.
d. none of the above

Question 2

Professor Brentwood does research in the area of clinical psychology and often publishes his results in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. Most likely, this source would be considered a __________ one.

a. scholarly
b. general
d. popular
e. secondary