In the 1950s,the advent of computers had an enormous influence on how psychologists conceptualized the mind.In this conceptualization,the brain was analogous to:
A)computer hardware.
B)computer software.
C)an electrical source.
D)programming language.

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In the 1950s, when computers were first invented, psychologists saw the brain as a "biological computer." They believed that the brain processed information like a computer, with inputs, outputs, and storage. This led to the idea that the brain was analogous to computer hardware, with the mind as the software that runs on it.

In the 1950s,the Advent of Computers Had an Enormous Influence