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 Atkinson-Shiffrin 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."
Ans: b
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