In a Study by Cross and Colleagues (2009),half of the Participants

question 162

Multiple Choice

In a study by Cross and colleagues (2009) ,half of the participants watched videos of specific dance sequences.The other half of participants actually practiced these sequences.All participants were then given a surprise dance test consisting of trained (observed or practiced) and untrained sequences.Participants who only observed videos of dance sequences:

• A)outperformed the practice group on trained sequences.
• B)outperformed the practice group on untrained sequences.
• C)demonstrated inferior performance on all sequences compared with the practice group.
• D)showed no difference in performance on trained versus untrained sequences.

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