Why Do Students Need to Study Information Technology

question 161

Multiple Choice

Why do students need to study information technology?

• A) Information technology is everywhere in business.
• B) Information technology is rarely discussed in business.
• C) Information technology is rarely used in organizations.
• D) Information technology is found in only a few businesses.

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Definitions:

Phrase Recognition

The ability to identify and understand groups of words as coherent units within a sentence or spoken language.

Shadowing Performance

Involves repeating speech immediately after hearing it, a method used in psychological experiments to study attention and auditory processing.

Cocktail Party Effect

The ability of the human brain to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much like being able to concentrate on a single conversation in a noisy environment.

Unattended Message

Information that is not directly focused on or noticed by an individual, especially in studies of selective attention.