The Department of Chemistry Is Trying to Understand How People

question 27

Multiple Choice

The Department of Chemistry is trying to understand how people solve problems in organic chemistry classes.Students are given a series of complex organic chemistry problems to solve.Which of the following will characterize the students' performance?

• A)East Asian students will perform worse on the problems if they are asked to verbally articulate their thinking process;but their performance will be relatively unaffected if they recite their own names repeatedly.
• B)Western students will perform worse on the problems if they are asked to verbally articulate their thinking process,or if they recite their own names repeatedly.
• C)Verbally articulating their thought process enhances the performance of East Asian students on the problems.
• D)Reciting their names repeatedly enhances the performance of Western students on the problems.
• E)Any student who verbally expresses anything unrelated to the problems will do poorly on them.

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