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bclement10

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Suppose that you are sitting in a classroom, trying to follow your professor's lecture while trying to ignore a loud conversation out in the hallway. This situation most closely resembles:
 
  a. parallel processing.
  b. holistic processing.
  c. a divided-attention task.
  d. a dichotic listening task.

Question 2

On a dichotic listening task,
 
  a. people can accurately monitor two tasks at the same time.
  b. people can accurately monitor two tasks at the same time, except when the tasks are both auditory.
  c. people notice little about the message that they are supposed to ignore.
  d. experts tend to process the message that they are supposed to ignore, but novices don't process an irrelevant message.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: c



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