Jackie is trying to balance her checkbook while at the same time helping her son with his homework. she works on her checkbook when she can while also watching for signals that her son has finished a particular assignment; then she can stop working on her checkbook and help her son. the task her central executive is MOST concerned about in this example is:
A. setting goals and planning
B. stimulus selection and response inhibition
C. task switching
D. controlled updating of short-term memory buffers
Answer: C. task switching
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