Chapter 10 discussed a study that compared the working-memory skills of three groups of Dutch-English bilinguals. This study concluded that
a. the students had the best working-memory scores.
b. the teachers had the best working-memory scores.
c. the simultaneous interpreters had the best working-memory scores.
d. the three groups did not differ significantly in their working-memory scores.
Ans: c
You might also like to view...
Aptitude tests are specifically designed to
a. predict ability to learn a new skill. b. compare an individual's abilities with those of highly successful people. c. assess learned knowledge or skills. d. assess the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. e. measure educational achievement
ALL BUT WHICH of the following is true of psychophysiological measures?
a. They may assess activity of the central nervous system, the autonomic nervous system, or the skeletomotor system. b. They may assess processes that cannot be assessed directly through self-report measures. c. They are often more sensitive at assessing certain processes than other (e.g., behavioral) types of measures. d. The concepts of reliability and validity are not relevant to psychophysiological measures.