According to the information processing approach, the brain can be viewed as________, while mental processing can be viewed as ________:
a) the "hardware" of a computer; the computer's "software"
b) a complex network of nodes; activation among these nodes
c) neuronal activity; a computer program
d) a computer program; central processing unit
Answer: a
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