People Can Often Work on Two Unrelated Tasks (Such as Remembering

question 79

Multiple Choice

People can often work on two unrelated tasks (such as remembering a series of 5 digits while also doing a visual task) with less interference between the tasks than one might expect. This fact has been taken as support for the idea that

• A) short-term and long-term memory are really the same thing.
• B) working memory is made up of more than one component.
• C) memories are stored in subcortical, not cortical, structures.
• D) memories processed in the left hemisphere do not interact with memories processed in the right hemisphere.

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