Tronsky's (2005) study on how automaticity develops in complex ...

[WWatsford]

Tronsky's (2005) study on how automaticity develops in complex multiplication. As subjects did multiplication problems over and over, they were asked to assess the strategy they were using. What happened over time?
 
  a) The subjects got tired and simply wrote any number down.
   b) The subjects continued to calculate the answer to every single problem.
   c) The more problems the subjects did, the more they got incorrect due to fatigue.
   d) The subjects stopped actually calculating the answers and simply recalled the correct answer from memory.

Question 2

I grab the cell phone and (try to) use it to turn up the volume on the TV. What kind of action slip is this?
 
  a) description error
   b) associative activation error
   c) capture error
   d) loss of activation error

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a