If a Participant Is Asked to Perform Two Activities at the Same

question 58

Multiple Choice

If a participant is asked to perform two activities at the same time, performance will be improved if

• A) the two activities are highly dissimilar, drawing on different task-specific resources.
• B) the two activities are highly similar, drawing on the same task-specific resources.
• C) both activities require large amounts of task-general resources.
• D) neither activity involves verbal processing.

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