Spelke,Hirst,and Neisser Attempted to Teach Participants to Simultaneously Take Dictation

question 83

Multiple Choice

Spelke,Hirst,and Neisser attempted to teach participants to simultaneously take dictation and read with comprehension.Their results suggests that ______.

• A)no amount of practice can teach people to do two things at once without a drop in performance
• B)people could eventually reach accurate performance on the dictation task,but reading comprehension still suffered
• C)people could eventually reach accuracy in reading comprehension,but in doing so they sacrificed accuracy in dictation
• D)after 6 weeks of practice,people could simultaneously take dictation accurately and read with normal comprehension

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Definitions:

Role Schemas

Cognitive structures that contain information about the features, behaviors, and expectations associated with social roles.

Person Schemas

Cognitive structures that contain knowledge, beliefs, and expectations about others that influence how we perceive and respond to them.

Content-Free Schemas

Cognitive structures that represent generic concepts without specific content, guiding the understanding of new information.

Social Stereotypes

Overgeneralized beliefs about a particular group of people that simplifies complex human behaviors and characteristics.