When Individuals Are Instructed to Divide Their Attention Between a Memory

question 80

Multiple Choice

When individuals are instructed to divide their attention between a memory encoding task and other tasks, their performance on the encoding task generally shows ​

• A)a marked improvement.
• B)a small decline. ​
• C)a large decline. ​
• D)no significant change. ​

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Bender Gestalt II

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