Participants Are Asked to Listen to a Tape-Recorded Message and to Shadow

question 19

Multiple Choice

Participants are asked to listen to a tape-recorded message and to shadow the message as they hear it.Which of the following tasks will be easiest to combine with this shadowing task?

• A)viewing a series of printed words,followed by a test measuring memory for the words
• B)simultaneously hearing a tape-recorded message,followed by a test measuring memory for the gist of the second message
• C)simultaneously hearing a tape-recorded list of words,followed by a test measuring memory for the word list
• D)viewing a series of pictures,followed by a test measuring memory for the pictures

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Definitions:

Law of Diminishing Returns

An economic principle stating that as one input in the production process is incrementally increased, holding all other inputs constant, there will be a point at which the added output from each additional unit of input will start to decrease.

Dollars Per Unit

A unit cost measure representing the price or cost of a single item or measure of goods or services.

Elasticity of Product Demand

A measure of the responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a product to changes in its price.

Elasticity of Resource Demand

The measure of how much the quantity demanded of a resource changes in response to a change in its price.