What Is the Current Status of the Parallel Distributed Processing

question 47

Multiple Choice

What is the current status of the parallel distributed processing approach?

• A)It was popular when the Atkinson-Shiffrin model was judged to be too rigid,but it is no longer prominent.
• B)Research shows that it has no neurological support.
• C)It has been applied to many cognitive processes,but it fails to acknowledge that some cognitive processes use serial processing.
• D)It is so limited in scope that it probably will not remain popular for long.

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