You Will Have Difficulty Reading Your Textbook If You Are

question 65

Multiple Choice

You will have difficulty reading your textbook if you are simultaneously singing the words to your favorite song. How would Baddeley explain this phenomenon?

• A) The words from the textbook and the words from the song will interfere with each other in the phonological loop.
• B) The visuospatial sketchpad is overcrowded, because both of these tasks have a strong visual component.
• C) The central executive cannot handle two verbal tasks at the same time.
• D) The singing prevents the words in your textbook from passing directly from semantic memory into long-term memory.

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Definitions:

Premises

Statements or ideas that are assumed to be true and used as the basis for an argument or reasoning.

Explanations

A process or act of making an idea, situation, or problem clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.

Deductive Arguments

A form of reasoning where the conclusion is logically derived from premises that are assumed to be true.

Inductive Arguments

Reasoning that moves from specific instances to a general conclusion, often used to infer probabilities.