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Which best describes the dual-task paradigm used to study divided attention in the laboratory?
 
  a. Participants are asked to listen information presented to one ear and repeat the information heard.
  b. Participants are asked to watch a film showing two activities superimposed on one another.
 c. Participants watch a screen and press a button when a particular feature is present.
 d. Participants are asked to watch a film that is sometimes presented with sound effects and sometimes without.

Question 2

According to the ____ theories of attention, people have a fixed amount of attentional capacity that they allocate to the perceived task requirements.
 
  a. attentional-resource
  b. filter and bottleneck
  c. neurological
 d. signal-detection


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

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Tirant22

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Reply #2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thank you


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