Dr Quinlan Submitted a Grant to Fund an Educational Program

Multiple Choice

Dr. Quinlan submitted a grant to fund an educational program aimed at improving judgment and reasoning performance among young adults. All else being equal, is the grant likely to be accepted or rejected, and why?

A) Accepted; educational programs have been successful in improving performance in both judgment and reasoning tasks.
B) Accepted; educational programs have been successful in reducing people's reliance on error-prone System II thinking strategies.
C) Rejected; educational programs only seem to improve performance in a small subset of reasoning problems.
D) Rejected; educational programs have no effect on performance in either judgment or reasoning.