Suppose That You Are Sitting in a Classroom, Trying to Follow

question 56

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are sitting in a classroom, trying to follow your professor's lecture while trying to ignore a loud conversation out in the hallway. This situation most closely resembles

• A) parallel processing.
• B) holistic processing.
• C) a divided-attention task.
• D) a dichotic listening task.

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