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

question 28

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 plainly different from each other,drawing on different task-specific resources.
• B)the two activities are partially related,so that resource use can be coordinated.
• C)both activities require large amounts of task-general resources.
• D)neither activity involves verbal processing.

---

Definitions:

Railroad Construction

The process of building the infrastructure necessary for train travel, including tracks, stations, and bridges.

Society

A group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

Scalawags

Southern white Republicans—some former Unionists—who supported Reconstruction governments.

Non-slaveholding White Farmers

describes white farmers in the southern United States before the Civil War who did not own slaves, often working their own land and living in economically marginal conditions.