Communications engineering and computer science were both important to the emergence of cognitive psychology because both:
a) showed that learning could occur without reinforcement or response.
b) showed that machines could perform intelligent human functions.
c) provided a model/metaphor for how the mind might work.
d) provided technological advances to better investigate mental processing.
Answer: c
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