______ Occur When the Experiences of One Generation (E

question 42

Multiple Choice

______ occur when the experiences of one generation (e.g., growing up with or without computers) are very different from those of another generation and affect the way the participants complete the task or measure in the study.

• A) Testing effects
• B) Attrition/mortality
• C) Cohort/generation effects
• D) Carryover effects

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Definitions:

Cognition

All aspects of thinking, knowing, and understanding reflecting mental activities such as attention, memory, problem-solving, and language comprehension.

Inattentional Blindness

The psychological phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight, purely as a result of lack of attention rather than any vision defects or deficits.

Sequential Processing

The cognitive process of understanding and managing information in a specific, ordered sequence, critical for tasks such as problem-solving and learning.

Blindsight

A phenomenon in which people who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field demonstrate some response to visual stimuli in that area without consciously perceiving them.