Chapter 1 of your textbook ends with a discussion about the five themes of this book. According to this discussion,

a. cognition is generally not very accurate.
b. cognition typically emphasizes both top-down and bottom-up processing.
c. children typically emphasize top-down processing, but adults typically emphasize bottom-up processing.
d. cognition is typically more accurate for negative information than for positive information.


Ans: b

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