Which of the Following Students Provides the Best Summary About

question 49

Multiple Choice

Which of the following students provides the best summary about the current status of the information-processing approach?

• A) Alena: "The information-processing approach is now more popular than the parallel distributed processing approach, because most cognitive tasks require serial processing."
• B) Magda: "The information-processing approach has declined in popularity during recent years, because those models are not complex enough to explain many cognitive activities."
• C) Dave: "The information-processing model is still extremely popular, and it remains at the cutting edge of cognitive psychology."
• D) Samuel: "The most important model is one in which the information-processing approach has been blended with the gestalt approach, in order to explain higher mental processes."

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Definitions:

Opportunity Costs

Making a choice results in the loss of potential profit that could have been earned from choosing differently.

Increasing Opportunity

In economic terms, refers to the increasing cost associated with producing additional units of a good, implying that producing more of one good requires sacrificing increasingly larger amounts of another good.

Production Possibilities

The various combinations of goods and services that can be produced by an economy given its available resources and technology, illustrating potential trade-offs and efficiency.

Comparative Advantage

An economic principle that states a country should produce and export goods for which it is more efficient at producing than other countries, and import goods that it is less efficient at producing.