Psychology GCSE
Role of past experience
What Role of past experience means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Past experience supplies learned assumptions that shape the inference, so the model is a best guess rather than a direct recording.
Topics that use Role of past experience
- Perception (AQA GCSE)
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