Shawn reads a newspaper article while listening to a

Shawn reads a newspaper article while listening to a baseball game, and then reads
another article in silence. Based on research on multitasking, when you time Shawn’s
reading speed and test his comprehension, you are likely to find that his reading is
a. faster but less accurate when listening to the game.
b. slower but more accurate when listening to the game.
c. both slower and less accurate when listening to the game.
d. both faster and more accurate when listening to the game, just as he claimed it
would be.
Answer: c
Section Ref: Overview of Attention
Difficulty: Medium
Objective text:
3-9. Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary about phone use
when someone is driving?

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Section Ref: Overview of Attention
Difficulty: Hard
3-10. Which of the following students provides the best summary of the research about using a
cell phone and paying attention while driving?
Section Ref: Overview of Attention
Difficulty: Hard
3-11. 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
Section Ref: Overview of Attention
Difficulty: Medium
3-12. 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.
Answer: c

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Section Ref: Overview of Attention
Difficulty: Easy
3-13. Research on dichotic listening shows that