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Cherie Is Trying to Do Two Things at Once

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Cherie is trying to do two things at once.She is completing a time-limited online quiz for a very important course (so she has to pay attention to the questions) ,and she is trying to monitor a conversation going on behind her,involving some juicy gossip.What would you expect if you asked Cherie to recall as much as possible about the conversation


A)  She would not remember as much as she would have if she had focused on the conversation. 
B)  She would have excellent memory for the conversation, because parallel-distributed processing would temporarily allow her to monitor two streams of content. 
C)  She would have poor memory for components of the conversation that were similar in content to the quiz. 
D)  She would remember more than usual about the conversation, because the topic was personally relevant.

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