The brain tends to “forecast” or anticipate what’s going on when information is being processed, and changes these expectations only when it receives disconfirming information. This process is called __________

a) anticipatory neglect
b) bottom-up processing
c) parallel distributed processing
d) predictive coding

Answer: d

Psychology

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