A Research Team Is Studying Which Parts of the Brain

question 44

Multiple Choice

A research team is studying which parts of the brain are active when a participant looks at a photograph of a person, and tries to judge how intelligent that person is. This kind of study is an example of

• A) the artificial intelligence approach.
• B) the information-processing approach.
• C) social cognitive neuroscience.
• D) computer simulation

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Development

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