When Marcos Was Playing Backgammon the Other Day, His Sister

question 43

Multiple Choice

When Marcos was playing backgammon the other day, his sister showed him a new strategy that he could use to win the game.If Marcos uses this new strategy in the future, what would an information-processing theorist suggest that Marcos had done?

• A)increased both his mental software and his mental hardware
• B)increased his mental software
• C)reduced his capacity to discover new adaptive strategies on his own
• D)reduced his mental software

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