The Fact That We Are Unaware of Most of Our

question 23

Multiple Choice

The fact that we are unaware of most of our mental processing is a good thing for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that

• A)we can reliably infer what our mental processes are,so there's no need to monitor them.
• B)awareness of all of our processing would likely send us into information overload.
• C)in many cases,information about our underlying mental processes would be distracting rather than helpful.
• D)most tasks would be greatly slowed if we had to sort through all of the underlying processing information.