Strayer and His Colleagues Link the Decrement in Driving Performance

question 83

Multiple Choice

Strayer and his colleagues link the decrement in driving performance with cell-phone use to:

• A)problems in semantic memory.
• B)cell-phone use exaggerates the recency effect.
• C)cell-phone use taxes the central executive (attentional control).
• D)cell-phone use requires the phonological loop to be suppressed.

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