According to Chapter 1 in your textbook, the computer-simulation method
a. attempts to explain how a computer can perform a cognitive task as quickly as possible.
b. is not yet sophisticated enough to perform any cognitive task as efficiently as humans can.
c. typically produces an idealized version of how humans should perform a cognitive task, rather than how they actually do perform it.
d. tries to create a program that performs a cognitive task in the same way that humans would perform it.
Ans: d
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