Pelham and Neter (1995) found that higher levels of motivation increased the accuracy of judgments when judgments were ________, but decreased accuracy when judgments were ________

a. important; unimportant
b. shared; made alone
c. easy; difficult
d. made slowly; made quickly

Answer: C

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