Cherie Is Trying to Do Two Things at Once

question 173

Multiple Choice

Cherie is trying to do two things at once.She is completing a time-limited online quiz for a very important course (so she has to pay attention to the questions) ,and she is trying to monitor a conversation going on behind her,involving some juicy gossip.What would you expect if you asked Cherie to recall as much as possible about the conversation

• A) She would not remember as much as she would have if she had focused on the conversation. 
• B) She would have excellent memory for the conversation, because parallel-distributed processing would temporarily allow her to monitor two streams of content. 
• C) She would have poor memory for components of the conversation that were similar in content to the quiz. 
• D) She would remember more than usual about the conversation, because the topic was personally relevant.

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